Hypertext Webster Gateway: "dreamt"

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.


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