Dream | Webster's Dictionary (1865)

Drēam, n.

noun

n. [O. Sax. drôm, D. droom, Icel. draumr, Dan. & Sw. dröm, O. H. Ger. droum, traum, N. H. Ger. traum. Cf. A-S. dreám, joy, gladness, Russ. drematj, to slumber, Lat. dormire, to sleep.] 1. A thought, or series of thoughts, of a person in sleep; the states or acts of the soul during sleep; a series of connected acts or states of this kind, the objects of which are imagined to be real; a sleeping vision. Dreams are but interludes which fancy makes. Dryden. 2. A matter which has only an imaginary reality; a visionary scheme or conceit; an idle fancy or suspicion; a vagary. Shak.

Drēam, v. i.

verbintransitive

v. i. [imp. & p. p. DREAMED, or DREAMT (drĕmt); p. pr. & vb. n. DREAMING.] [D. droomen, Dan. drömme, Sw. drömma, O. H. Ger. troumjan, N. H. Ger. träumen. See supra.]

To have ideas or images in the mind, in the state of slumber; to experience sleeping visions; as, to dream of a battle, or an absent friend.
To let the mind run on in idle revery or vagary; also, to form a conception or anticipation; to anticipate as a coming reality; to imagine. “Nor Cymbeline dreams that they are alive.” Shak.

They dream on in a course of reading, but not digesting. Locke.

Drēam, v. t.

verbtransitive

v. t. To imagine, think of, or believe in a dream, or in an analogous state. “And dreamt the future fight.” Dryden.

To dream away, out, through, &c., to pass in revery or inaction; to spend in idle vagaries; as, to dream away an hour; to dream through life. “Why does Antony dream out his hours?” Shak.