Word Meanings - OUTDREAM - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To pass, or escape, while dreaming. "To oultdream dangers." Beau. & Fl.

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• WHILES
  1. Meanwhile; meantime. The good knight whiles humming to himself the lay of some majored troubadour. Sir. W. Scott. 2. sometimes; at times. Sir W. Scott. The whiles. See under While, n.
• DREAMINESS
  The state of being dreamy.
• WHILERE
  A little while ago; recently; just now; erewhile. Helpeth me now as I did you whilere. Chaucer. He who, with all heaven's heraldry, whilere Entered the world. Milton.
• ESCAPE
  1. To flee, and become secure from danger; -- often followed by from or out of. Haste, for thy life escape, nor look behindKeble. 2. To get clear from danger or evil of any form; to be passed without harm. Such heretics . . . would have
• DREAMER
  1. One who dreams. 2. A visionary; one lost in wild imaginations or vain schemes of some anticipated good; as, a political dreamer.
• DREAM
  Dan. & Sw. dröm; cf. G. trügen to deceive, Skr. druh to harm, hurt, try to hurt. AS. dreám joy, gladness, and OS. dr joy are, perh., different words; cf. Gr. 1. The thoughts, or series of thoughts, or imaginary transactions, which occupy the
• ESCAPEMENT
  1. The act of escaping; escape. 2. Way of escape; vent. An escapement for youthful high spirits. G. Eliot. 3. The contrivance in a timepiece which connects the train of wheel work with the pendulum or balance, giving to the latter the impulse by
• DREAMILY
  As if in a dream; softly; slowly; languidly. Longfellow.
• DREAMLESS
  Free from, or without, dreams. Camden. -- Dream"less*ly, adv.
• DREAMY
  Abounding in dreams or given to dreaming; appropriate to, or like, dreams; visionary. "The dreamy dells." Tennyson.
• DREAMLAND
  An unreal, delightful country such as in sometimes pictured in dreams; region of fancies; fairyland. builds a bridge from dreamland for his lay. Lowell.
• WHILE
  wigl, G. weile, OHG. wila, hwila, hwil, Icel. hvila a bed, hvild rest, Sw. hvila, Dan. hvile, Goth. hweila a time, and probably to L. 1. Space of time, or continued duration, esp. when short; a time; as, one while we thought him innocent. "All
• DREAMINGLY
  In a dreamy manner.
• DREAMFUL
  Full of dreams. " Dreamful ease." Tennyson. -- Dream"ful*ly, adv.
• ESCAPER
  One who escapes.
• UNDREAMED; UNDREAMT
  Not dreamed, or dreamed of; not thof. Unpathed waters, undreamed shores. Shak.
• ERSTWHILE
  Till then or now; heretofore; formerly.
• EREWHILE; EREWHILES
  Some time ago; a little while before; heretofore. I am as fair now as I was erewhile. Shak.
• WORTHWHILE
  Worth the time or effort spent. See worth while. worthy. -- worthwhileness.
• DAYDREAMER
  One given to draydreams.
• AWHILE
  For a while; for some time; for a short time.
• DAYDREAM
  A vain fancy speculation; a reverie; a castle in the air; unfounded hope. Mrs. Lambert's little daydream was over. Thackeray.
• JOHNADREAMS
  A dreamy, idle fellow. Shak.
• ADREAMED
  Visited by a dream; -- used in the phrase, To be adreamed, to dream.
• MEANTIME; MEANWHILE
  The intervening time; as, in the meantime .
• SOMEWHILE
  Once; for a time. Though, under color of shepherds, somewhile There crept in wolves, full of fraund and guile. Spenser.