Fantasm

Same as PHANTASM, q. v. Fantasque, ( fan'task,) a. Fantastic. (Used poetically.) Fan'tast, n. A fantastic person. (R.) Fantastic, Fantastical, a. [Fr. fantast i que, from Lat. and Gr. phantasia. See FANCY.] Fanciful; produced or existing only in imagination; imaginary; not real; chimerical; irrational. - Having the nature of a phantom; only occasionally a uming a visible form. -Uncertain; unsteady; irregular; as, the fantastic form of a tree. Whimsical; capricious; odd; indulging the vagaries of imagination; full of fantasy; as, a fantastic humor, a fantastic character. IMG:content-0123.jpg:[ocr errors] One given to eccentricity in dre , manners, .; a person of odd appearance or habits. Fantastical'ity, n. Fantasticalne . Fantastically, adv . In a fantastic manner; capriciously; whimsically. Fantasticalne , Fantastic ne , n. State of being whimsical, fantastic, or capricious. Fan'tasy, n. See FANCY. Fan'tee, a country of Africa, on the Guinea coast, in abt. Lat. 5o 30o N., and Lon. 1o W., bounded on the S. by the Atlantic, and on the other sides by the countries of A in, Aguafoo, and Wa aw. Soil , fertile. The Fantees were once the most numerous and powerful people on the Gold Coast, but since 1811 they have diminished in numbers, and now live under the protection of the British garrisons at Cape Coast Castle. Fantoccini, ( fan - tot -che'ne,) n. pl. [From It. fantoc cio , a puppet.) An exhibition of puppets, or a dramatic representation on a small scale, performed by figures or dolls, an amusement of which the Italians are extremely fond, and which is frequently performed in a portable theatre-like that of Punch and Judy.