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reveries |
1 definition found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Reverie \Rev"er*ie\, Revery \Rev"er*y\, n.; pl {Reveries}. [F. r['e]verie, fr r[^e]ver to dream, rave, be light-headed. Cf {Rave}.] 1. A loose or irregular train of thought occurring in musing or mediation; deep musing; daydream. ``Rapt in nameless reveries.'' --Tennyson. When ideas float in our mind without any reflection or regard of the understanding, it is that which the French call revery, our language has scarce a name for it --Locke. 2. An extravagant conceit of the fancy; a vision. [R.] There are infinite reveries and numberless extravagancies pass through both [wise and foolish minds]. --Addison.
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