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DREAM, n. G.

1. The thought or series of thoughts of a person in sleep. We apply dream, in the singular, to a series of thoughts, which occupy the mind of a sleeping person, in which he imagines he has a view of real things or transactions. A dream is a series of thoughts not under the command of reason, and hence wild and irregular.
2. In scripture, dreams were sometimes impressions on the minds of sleeping persons, made by divine agency. God came to Abimelech in a dream. Joseph was warned by God in a dream. Genesis 20 . Matthew 2 .
3. A vain fancy a wild conceit an unfounded suspicion.

DREAM, pret. dreamed or dreamt. G.

1. To have ideas or images in the mind, in the state of sleep with of before a noun as, to dream of a battle to dream of an absent friend.
2. To think to imagine as, he little dreamed of his approaching fate.
3. To think idly.

They dream on in a course of reading, without digesting.

4. To be sluggish to waste time in vain thoughts as, to dream away life.

DREAM, To see in a dream.

And dreamt the future fight.

It is followed by a noun of the like signification as, to dream a dream.

Bibliography Information
Entry for 'Dream'. King James Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​kjd/​d/dream.html.
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