Bible Dictionaries
Vision

Webster's Dictionary

(1):

(v.) The faculty of seeing; sight; one of the five senses, by which colors and the physical qualities of external objects are appreciated as a result of the stimulating action of light on the sensitive retina, an expansion of the optic nerve.

(2):

(v.) That which is seen; an object of sight.

(3):

(v.) The act of seeing external objects; actual sight.

(4):

(v.) Especially, that which is seen otherwise than by the ordinary sight, or the rational eye; a supernatural, prophetic, or imaginary sight; an apparition; a phantom; a specter; as, the visions of Isaiah.

(5):

(v.) Hence, something unreal or imaginary; a creation of fancy.

(6):

(v. t.) To see in a vision; to dream.

Bibliography Information
Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Vision'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​v/vision.html. 1828.