fantom

See phantom. Chaucer, Former Age, 1. 51. fan-tracery (fan'trā"se-ri), n. In late medieval arch., elaborate geometrical carved tracery which rises from a capital or a corbel, and di And to our high-raised phantasy present That undisturbed song of pure concent. Milton , Solenın Music, 1. 5. 2. Irregular or erratic fancy in thought or action; unrestrained imagination; whim; caprice; vagary. The charm [of Lich field Cathedral] is increased by a H. James, Jr., Trans. Sketches, p. 23. singular architectural fantasy. The belief, rejected in recent times, that the phantasy of the mother can impart to her child the features of a picture that has made a strong impre ion on her, I cannot regard as impo ible. Lotze , Microcosm us (trans.), I. 502. 3. The forming of unreal, chimerical, or grotesque images in the mind; a mingling of incongruous or unfounded ideas or notions; disordered or distorted fancy; fantastic imagination. In theise thinges and in suche othere ther ben many folk that beleeven; because it happen ethe so often tyme to falle aftre here fantasyes . Mandeville, Travels, p. 166. Lovers and madmen have such seething brains, Such shaping fantasies , that apprehend More than cool reason ever comprehends. IMG:content-1086.png:[graphic] Shak., M. N. D., v. 1. Imagination, as it is too often misunderstood, is mere fantasy , the image-making power, common to all who have the gift of dreams, or who can afford to buy it in a vulgar drug as De Quincey bought it. Lowell , Among my Books, 1st ser., p. 176. 4. A product or result of the power of fantasy; a fantastic image or thought; a disordered or distorted fancy; a phantasm. Som other fauntasyes appyeren by nyght tyme vnto many oon in dyuerse places in lyknes of wymen with old face. Rom . of Partenay (E. E. T. S.), Pref., p. xiii. A you sand fantasies Begin to throng into my memory, Of calling shapes, and beckoning shadows dire, And aery tongues that syllable men's names. Milton , Comus, 1. 205. It was a corpse in its burial clothes. Suddenly the fixed features seemed to move with dark emotion. Strange fan tasy! It was but the shadow of the fringed curtain. Hawthorne , The White Old Maid. There are you sands of usually intelligent citizens who have decided that a Pacific railroad is a... fantasy of demagogues and visionaries. H. Greeley, Overland Journey, xxxiv. 5. In music, same as fantasia.= Syn. Fantasy, Fancy. See imagination. The present differentiation in meaning of the word fantasy from its contracted form fancy (heretofore overlooked by lexicographers), identical with that between the correlative adjectives fantastic and fanciful, is well illustrated in the following extracts: Ye woods! that wave o'er Avon's rocky steep, To Fancy's ear sweet is your murmuring deep!... Alas vain Phantasies ! the fleeting brood Of Woe self-solaced in her dreamy wood! Cole ridge, Death of Chatter ton. IMG:content-1087.jpg:[ocr errors] Fan-tracery.- Cloisters of Gloucester Cathedral, England. verges like the folds of a fan, spreading over the surface of a vault.-Fan-tracery vaulting, a very complicated mode of roofing, much used in the Perpendicular style, in which the vault is covered by ribs and veins of tracery, all the principal lines diverging from a point, as in Henry VII.'s Chapel in Westminster Abbey. fan-training (fan'tra"ning), n. In hort., a method of training a tree or vine on a wall or trellis in such a manner that the branches radiate from the trunk at regular intervals and at continually smaller angles, the lower branch on each side being approximately horizontal.Half fan-training, a method of training similar to fan training, but in which the lower branches rise obliquely from the trunk. fan-veined (fan'vānd), a. 1. In bot., having the veins spreading from a common point, like the ribs of a fan.-2. In entom., same as fan nerved.