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[ME. drem, dreem, dreme, earlier dream (rare except in earliest ME.), a sound, esp. a joyful sound, jubilation, lati on; music. Tha he mihte ihere... muchel folkes dream . Layamon , I. 43. Hornes blast other [or] belles drem . Bestiary (Old Eng. Misc., ed. Morris), 1. 665. Lus! bus! las! das! rowtyn be rowe Swech dolful a dreme the devyl it to dryve. Rel. Ant ., I. 240. To hire louerd heo sede with stille dreme . King Horn (E. E. T. S.), p. 52. dreamer (dre'mer), n. [ dremere , dremer = D. droomer = OHG. troumare, G. träumer = Sw. drömmare = Dan. drömmer; Glories Of human greatne are but pleasing dreams. Ford , Broken Heart, iii. 5. The potentiality of growing rich beyond the dreams of avarice. Johnson, in Boswell, an. 1781. They live together and they dine together;... but the man is himself and the woman herself; that dream of 2. A visionary: as, a political dreamer . love is over, as everything else is over in life. They said one to another, Behold, this dreamer cometh. Gen. xxxvii. 19. 2. In a dreadful or terrible manner. Ffro Viterbe to Venyse, the is valyante knyghtez: Dre es up dredfully the dragone of golde, With egles al-over, enamelede of sable. Morte Arthure (E. E. T. S.), 1. 2026. Their beaten anvils dreadfully resound, And Ætna shakes all o'er, and thunders underground. Add is on, tr. of Virgil's Georgics, iv. dreadfulne (dred'fül-nes), n. The quality of being dreadful; terriblene ; frightfulne . dreadingly (dred'ing-li), adv . In a manner significant of dread or terror; with misgiving. [Rare.] Mistrustfully he trusteth, And he dreadingly doth dare; And forty pa ions in a trice In him consort and square. Warner, Albion's England, vi. 33. dreadle (dred'les), a . [ , drede les ; dread + le .] 1. Fearle ; bold; not intimidated; undaunted; intrepid. And dreadle of their danger, climb The floating mountains of the brine. träumen, dream; from the noun.] I. in trans. 1. To be partially, and with more or le confusion or incoherence, coherence, conscious of images and thoughts during sleep: with of before an object: as, to dream of a battle; to dream of an absent friend. And he dreamed, and behold a ladder set upon the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven. Gen. xxviii. 12. The slave who, slumbering on his rusted chain, Dreams of the palm-trees on his burning plain. IMG:content-3150.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-3151.png:[blocks in formation] Gentle and just and dreadle , is he not The monarch of the world? Shelley, Pro me the us Unbound, iii. 1. 2. Exempt from dread or fear of danger; secure. Safe in his dreadles den him thought to hide. Spenser, World's Vanitie, x. 31. Without dread or apprehension: used elliptically (like doubtle ) with adverbial effect. Do dre e we tharefore, and byde we no langere, Ffore dredle e with-owttyne dowtte, the daye schalle be ourez! Morte Arthure (E. E. T. S.), 1. 2043. think of something as po ible; conceive: with of: as, he little dreamed of his approaching fate. He [Jesus] takes this occasion to tell his Disciples that they must no longer dream of the Glories and Splendour of this world. Stilling fleet, Sermons, I. xii. Alas! the dreamer first must sleep, I only watch'd, and wish'd to weep. Byron, The Giaour. He must be an idle dreamer, Who leaves the pie and gnaws the streamer. Prior. 3. A mope; a sluggard.-4. A South American puff-bird of the genus Che lid opter a , as C. tenebrosa.