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Indulging in a vagrant or idle exercise of the imagination; roaming upon a fruitless quest; idly fanciful.

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  1. a. Indulging in a vagrant or idle exercise of the imagination; roaming upon a fruitless quest; idly fanciful.
  2. n. Indulgence in idle imagination; a foolish or useless pursuit or design.
  3. adj. dreamy in mood or nature
  4. n. an idle indulgence in fantasy
  5. Indulging in a vagrant or idle exercise of the imagination; roaming upon a fruitless quest; idly fanciful. Indulgence in idle imagination; a foolish or useless pursuit or design. His wits were a woolgathering, as they say. Burton.
  6. Indulging in a vagrant or idle exercise of the imagination;roaming upon a fruitless quest; idly fanciful.
  7. n. an idle indulgence in fantasy