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Dreaming   /drˈimɪŋ/   Listen
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Dream  v. t.  (past & past part. dreamt; pres. part. dreaming)  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". "At length in sleep their bodies they compose, And dreamt the future fight". "And still they dream that they shall still succeed".
To dream away To dream out, To dream 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?"



Dream  v. i.  (past & past part. dreamt; pres. part. dreaming)  
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". "They dream on in a constant course of reading, but not digesting".






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"Dreaming" Quotes from Famous Books



... flattering hopes of youth Have all deceived me and betrayed me? Give me, give me rest, O, rest! Golden visions wave and hover, Golden vapors, waters streaming, Landscapes moving, changing, gleaming! I am like a happy lover Who illumines life with dreaming! Brave physician! Rare physician! Well ...
— The Golden Legend • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

... ultimate horror of memory, Van Horn was soon able to fall asleep again, delightfully aware, as he drowsed off, of Jerry's head on his shoulder. Once, when Jerry, dreaming of the beach at Meringe and of Mister Haggin, Biddy, Terrence, and Michael, set up a low whimpering, Van Horn roused sufficiently to soothe him closer to him, and to mutter ominously: "Any nigger that'd hurt ...
— Jerry of the Islands • Jack London

... to-day is radiant, as I ne'er Could picture it in wildest dreaming, when For long, long hours I lay in flowery glen Or wooded copse, and tried in vain to tear The glamour from my eyes, and face the glare And tumult of the busy world of men. I staked my all, and won! and ne'er again Can my blest spirit know ...
— Poems • Sophia M. Almon

... to any of the people. But now he was able to find words simple and direct. An intuitive perception of suffering made him see in the boy—(rather too simply)—a little bird wounded by life, like himself, seeking consolation with his head under his wing, sadly huddled up on his perch, dreaming of wild flights into the light. A feeling that was something akin to instinctive confidence brought the boy closer to him: he felt the attraction of the silent soul, which made no moan and used no harsh words, a soul wherein he could ...
— Jean-Christophe Journey's End • Romain Rolland

... and I had awakened in stifling darkness. Was I dreaming, or were there voices, English voices, ...
— Heralds of Empire - Being the Story of One Ramsay Stanhope, Lieutenant to Pierre Radisson in the Northern Fur Trade • Agnes C. Laut


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