dreamer, dremare, dremer, dremere

[A. S. dreamere =a musician; O. H. Ger. troumári a dreamer; M. H. Ger. troumare: Sw. dröm mare; Dan. drömmer; Dutch droomer; German drömer.] 1. One who has dreams or visions. "And they said one to another, Behold, this dreamer cometh."- Gen . xxxvii. 19. 2. An interpreter or diviner of dreams. "Diviners, dreamers, schoolmen, deep magicians, All have I tryed." Beaum. & Flet.: Woman Pleased, iv. 1. IMG:content-0513.png:[blocks in formation] 1. Drearine , dread, dismalne , horror. "A ruefull spectacle of death and ghastly drere." Spenser: F. Q. , I. viii. 40. 2. Heavy, dead force. "It fell with so despiteous dreare And heavie sway that hard unto his crowne The shield it drave." Spenser: F. Q. , IV. viii. 42. *drëar-I-head, *drear-y-hood, *drer-i-hed, *drer-i-hedd, *drer-y-hedd, *dryr-i-hed, s. gloomine . 3. One who is given to idle or fanciful thoughts; [Eng. dreary; -hood.] Drearine , affliction, horror, a visionary. "He was not, he said, the first great discoverer whom princes and statesmen had regarded as a dreamer."Macaulay: Hist . Eng . , ch. xxi. "The dame, halfe dedd Through suddein feare and ghastly drerihedd." Spenser: F. Q., III. 1. 62. drear-1-1ỹ, *dreor-liche, *drer-i-liche, *drer1-ly, adv. [A. S. dreórig - lice (adv.), dreór - lic (a.).] le ly. 4. A mope, a sluggard, an idler. dream-ful, a. [Eng. dream; -ful ( l .)] Full of In a dreary manner; gloomily, dismally, cheer dreams, fancies, or idle thoughts. IMG:content-0514.png:[blocks in formation] 2. Horror, dreadfulne , terror. "Enrold in flames and smouldring dreriment." Spenser: F. Q., I. viii. 9. drëar-I-ne , *drery-ne e, *drury-ne e, s. [A. S. dreórignys, dreórinys.] The quality or state A. & B. As pr. par . & particip . adj .: (See the of being dreary; dismalne , gloom, cheerle ne , verb.) C. As substantive : 1. The act or state of having dreams. "Dreaming is the having of ideas, whilst the outward senses are stopped, not suggested by any external objects, or known occasion, nor under the rule or conduct of the understanding."-Locke. 2. A dream, an idle thought or fancy. "They dee me other men's wisdome to be but dreaminge."-Sir J. Cheke: Hurt of Sedition. dreaming-bread, s. 1. The designation given to a bridecake, pieces of which are carried home by young people, and laid under their pillows. The idea is, that a piece of this cake, when slept on, po e es the virtue of making the person dream of his or her sweetheart. 2. The term is also applied to the cake used at a baptism. This is wrapped up in the garment used for swathing the infant, and afterward divided among the young people that they may sleep over it. "Mi Nicky wondered what was to become of the christening cake she had ordered from Perth. The Mi es were ready to weep at the disappointment of the dreaming-bread."- Marriage , i. 259. dream-Ing-lý, adv. [English dreaming; -ly.] Slowly, indolently, sluggishly, without spirit or en ergy. "For many years whatever I have written has been composed slowly and deliberately, I might say almost dreamingly at times." -Southey: Letters, iv. 521.