Chapter Drawfiling to Dredge of D by Webster's Dictionary (1913 Edition)

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.

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 dreamaway, 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.

Dreamer
(Dream"er) n.

1. One who dreams.

2. A visionary; one lost in wild imaginations or vain schemes of some anticipated good; as, a political dreamer.

Dreamful
(Dream"ful) a. Full of dreams. " Dreamful ease." Tennyson. — Dream"ful*ly, adv.

Dreamily
(Dream"i*ly) adv. As if in a dream; softly; slowly; languidly. Longfellow.

Dreaminess
(Dream"i*ness), n. The state of being dreamy.

Dreamingly
(Dream"ing*ly), adv. In a dreamy manner.

Dreamland
(Dream"land`) n. An unreal, delightful country such as in sometimes pictured in dreams; region of fancies; fairyland.

[He] builds a bridge from dreamland for his lay.

Lowell.

Dreamless
(Dream"less), a. Free from, or without, dreams. Camden. — Dream"less*ly, adv.

Dreamy
(Dream"y) a. [Compar. Dreamier ; superl. Dreamiest ] Abounding in dreams or given to dreaming; appropriate to, or like, dreams; visionary. "The dreamy dells." Tennyson.

Drear
(Drear) a. [See Dreary.] Dismal; gloomy with solitude. "A drear and dying sound." Milton.

Drear
(Drear), n. Sadness; dismalness. [Obs.] Spenser.

Drearihead
(Drear"i*head) Drearihood
(Drear"i*hood) n. Affliction; dreariness. [Obs.] Spenser.

Drearily
(Drear"i*ly), adv. Gloomily; dismally.

Dreariment
(Drear"i*ment) n. Dreariness. [Obs.] Spenser.