dream1 (drem)

[ = dreamy She never dreams they used her for a snare, And now withdraw the bait has served its turn. Browning , Ring and Book, I. 287. MLG. drōm , LG. droom = OHG. MHG. troum, 4. To pa in reverie or inaction; spend idly G. traum Icel. draumr = Sw. dröm Dan, or fancifully: followed by away , out , or through : dröm , a dream; perhaps lit. a deceptive vision, as, to dream away one's life. = orig. * draugmo-, IMG:content-3148.png:[blocks in formation] Bunyan, Pilgrim's Progre , p. 94. =Syn. 3. Fearful , Frightful , etc. (see auful ); terrific, horrible, horrid, dire, direful, tremendous. II. n. That which is fearful or terrible: used only in the phrases penny dreadful, shilling dreadful, to denote a tale of vulgar sensationalism sold at a small price, or a cheap sensational newspaper or periodical. [Eng.] A drunken good-for-nothing, blind to his own absurdities and shortcomings, he [Ally Sloper) commenced his *dhrugh?), hurt (by deceit, wile, magic), ef. OPers. drauga, a lie). Though generally identified with dream2, AS. dream, joy, a joyful sound, etc., there is really nothing to connect the two words except the likene of form.] 1. A succe ion of images or fantastic ideas present in the mind during sleep; the sleeping state in which such images occur. And the i ete no mete in alle the Wynter: but the i lygn as in a Drem , as don the Serpentes. Mandeville , Travels, p. 288. Dreams are but interludes which fancy makes; When monarch reason sleeps, this mimic wakes. Dryden, Cock and Fox, 1. 325. A dream is a succe ion of phenomena having no external reality to correspond to them. W. K. Clifford, Lectures, I. 244. IMG:content-3149.png:[blocks in formation] By grace of a very rare genius, the best work of the Brontes is saved, as by fire, out of the repulsive sensationalism they started, destined to perish in shilling dreadfuls. F. Harrison, Choice of Books, iii. dreadfully (dred'fül-i), adv . [Early mod. E. also dredfully , dredfully ; dreadful + -ly2.] 11. With alarm; fearfully. Ac whan he hadde sigte of that segge a-syde he gan hym drawe, Dredfully by this day! as duk doth fram the faucoun. Piers Plowman (B), xvii. 62. Ful tenderly begynneth she to wepe; She rist her vp, and dredefully she quaketh, As do the the braunche that Zepherus shaketh. imaginative faculty, though not in sleep; a vision of the fancy, especially a wild or vain fancy. Why then does Antony dream out his hours? Dryden, All for Love, i. 1.