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5 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Dream \Dream\, v. t. To have a dream of to see or have a vision of in sleep, or in idle fancy; -- often followed by an objective clause. Your old men shall dream dreams. --Acts ii 17. At length in sleep their bodies they compose, And dreamt the future fight. --Dryden. And still they dream that they shall still succeed. --Cowper. {To dream} {away, out through}, etc., to pass in revery or inaction; to spend in idle vagaries; as to dream away an hour; to dream through life. `` Why does Antony dream out his hours?'' --Dryden. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Dream \Dream\ (dr[=e]m), n. [Akin to OS dr[=o]m, D. droom, G. traum, Icel. draumr Dan. & Sw dr["o]m; cf G. tr["u]gen to deceive, Skr. druh to harm, hurt, try to hurt. AS dre['a]m joy, gladness, and OS dr[=o]m joy are perh., different words cf Gr qry^los noise.] 1. The thoughts, or series of thoughts, or imaginary transactions, which occupy the mind during sleep; a sleeping vision. Dreams are but interludes which fancy makes --Dryden. I had a dream which was not all a dream. --Byron. 2. A visionary scheme; a wild conceit; an idle fancy; a vagary; a revery; -- in this sense applied to an imaginary or anticipated state of happiness; as a dream of bliss; the dream of his youth. There sober thought pursued the amusing theme, Till Fancy colored it and formed a dream. --Pope. It is not them a mere dream, but a very real aim which they propose. --J. C. Shairp From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Dream \Dream\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Dreamed}or {Dreamt} (?); p. pr & vb n. {Dreaming}.] [Cf. AS dr?man, dr?man, to rejoice. See {Dream}, n.] 1. To have ideas or images in the mind while in the state of sleep; to experience sleeping visions; -- often with of as to dream of a battle, or of an absent friend. 2. To let the mind run on in idle revery or vagary; to anticipate vaguely as a coming and happy reality; to have a visionary notion or idea; to imagine. Here may we sit and dream Over the heavenly theme. --Keble. They dream on in a constant course of reading, but not digesting. --Locke. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: dream n 1: a series of mental images and emotions occurring during sleep; "I had a dream about you last night" [syn: {dreaming}] 2: imaginative thoughts indulged in while awake; "he lives in a dream that has nothing to do with reality" [syn: {dreaming}] 3: a cherished desire; "his ambition is to own his own business" [syn: {ambition}, {aspiration}] 4: a fantastic but vain hope (from fantasies induced by the opium pipe); "I have this pipe dream about being emperor of the universe" [syn: {pipe dream}] 5: a state of mind characterized by abstraction and release from reality; "he went about his work as if in a dream" 6: someone of something wonderful; "this dessert is a dream" v 1: have a daydream; indulge in a fantasy [syn: {daydream}, {woolgather}, {stargaze}] 2: experience while sleeping; "She claims to never dream"; "He dreamt a strange scene" From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: Dream God has frequently made use of dreams in communicating his will to men. The most remarkable instances of this are recorded in the history of Jacob (Gen. 28:12; 31:10), Laban (31:24), Joseph (37:9-11), Gideon (Judg. 7), and Solomon (1 Kings 3:5). Other significant dreams are also recorded, such as those of Abimelech (Gen. 20:3-7), Pharaoh's chief butler and baker (40:5), Pharaoh (41:1-8), the Midianites (Judg. 7:13), Nebuchadnezzar (Dan. 2:1; 4:10, 18), the wise men from the east (Matt. 2:12), and Pilate's wife (27:19). To Joseph "the Lord appeared in a dream," and gave him instructions regarding the infant Jesus (Matt. 1:20; 2:12, 13, 19). In a vision of the night a "man of Macedonia" stood before Paul and said "Come over into Macedonia and help us" (Acts 16:9; see also 18:9; 27:23).
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