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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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Definitions
- a. Indulging in a vagrant or idle exercise of the imagination; roaming upon a fruitless quest; idly fanciful.
- n. Indulgence in idle imagination; a foolish or useless pursuit or design.
- adj. dreamy in mood or nature
- n. an idle indulgence in fantasy
- 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.
- Indulging in a vagrant or idle exercise of the imagination;roaming upon a fruitless quest; idly fanciful.
- n. an idle indulgence in fantasy