English Dictionary: 'Dream | by the DICT Development Group |
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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 Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Dream \Dream\ (dr[emac]m), n. [Akin to OS. dr[omac]m, D. droom, G. traum, Icel. draumr, Dan. & Sw. dr[94]m; cf. G. tr[81]gen to deceive, Skr. druh to harm, hurt, try to hurt. AS. dre[a0]m joy, gladness, and OS. dr[omac]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. 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. [bd] Why does Antony dream out his hours?[b8] --Dryden. | |
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). |