| dreadful | 1. Full of dread or terror; fearful. "With dreadful heart." 2. Inspiring dread; impressing great fear; fearful; terrible; as, a dreadful storm. " Dreadful gloom." "For all things are less dreadful than they seem." (Wordsworth) 3. Inspiring awe or reverence; awful. "God's dreadful law." Synonym: Fearful, frightful, terrific, terrible, horrible, horrid, formidable, tremendous, awful, venerable. See Frightful. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| dreadless | 1. Free from dread; fearless; intrepid; dauntless; as, dreadless heart. "The dreadless angel." 2. Exempt from danger which causes dread; secure. " safe in his dreadless den." Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| dream | 1. The thoughts, or series of thoughts, or imaginary transactions, which occupy the mind during sleep; a sleeping vision. "Dreams are but interludes which fancy makes." (Dryden) "I had a dream which was not all a dream." (Byron) 2. A visionary scheme; a wild conceit; an idle fancy; a vagary; a revery; in this sense, applied to an imaginary or anticipated state of happiness; as, a dream of bliss; the dream of his youth. "There sober thought pursued the amusing theme, Till Fancy coloured it and formed a dream." (Pope) "It is not them a mere dream, but a very real aim which they propose." (J. C. Shairp) Origin: Akin to OS. Drm, D. Droom, G. Traum, Icel. Draumr, Dan. & Sw. Drom; cf. G. Trugen to deceive, Skr. Druh to harm, hurt, try to hurt. AS. Dream joy, gladness, and OS. Drm joy are, perh, different words; cf. Gr. Noise. 1. To have ideas or images in the mind while in the state of sleep; to experience sleeping visions; often with of; as, to dream of a battle, or of an absent friend. 2. To let the mind run on in idle revery or vagary; to anticipate vaguely as a coming and happy reality; to have a visionary notion or idea; to imagine. "Here may we sit and dream Over the heavenly theme". (Keble) "They dream on in a constant course of reading, but not digesting". (Locke) Origin: Cf. AS. Drman, drman, to rejoice. See Dream. To have a dream of; to see, or have a vision of, in sleep, or in idle fancy; often followed by an objective clause. "Your old men shall dream dreams". (Acts II. 17) "At length in sleep their bodies they compose, And dreamt the future fight". (Dryden) "And still they dream that they shall still succeed". (Cowper) To dream away, out, through, etc, to pass in revery or inaction; to spend in idle vagaries; as, to dream away an hour; to dream through life. " Why does Antony dream out his hours?" Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| dream associations | The memories and emotions mentioned by a patient trying to understand a dream at the request of a psychoanalyst. (05 Mar 2000) |
| dream pain | Pain occurring during sleep. Synonym: dream pain. Origin: hypno-+ G. Algos, pain (05 Mar 2000) |
| dream-work | In psychoanalysis, the process by which the change from latent to manifest content of a dream is effected. (05 Mar 2000) |
| dreamer | 1. One who dreams. 2. A visionary; one lost in wild imaginations or vain schemes of some anticipated good; as, a political dreamer. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| dreams | A series of thoughts, images, or emotions occurring during sleep which are dissociated from the usual stream of consciousness of the waking state. (12 Dec 1998) |
| dreamy | Abounding in dreams or given to dreaming; appropriate to, or like, dreams; visionary. "The dreamy dells." Origin: Dreamier; Dreamiest. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| dreamy state | The saemiconscious state associated with an epileptic attack. Synonym: absent state. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Drechslera | A saprobic genus of fungi, frequently recovered in the clinical laboratory, characterised by conidia attached to a zigzagged conidiophore. Species in the genus may cause phaeohyphomycosis in humans, cats, and horses. (05 Mar 2000) |
| dredge | 1. Any instrument used to gather or take by dragging; as: A dragnet for taking up oysters, etc, from their beds. A dredging machine. An iron frame, with a fine net attached, used in collecting animals living at the bottom of the sea. 2. <chemical> Very fine mineral matter held in suspension in water. Origin: F. Drege, dreige, fish net, from a word akin to E. Draw; cf. D. Dreg, dregge, small anchor, dregnet dragnet. See Draw. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| dredger | 1. One who fishes with a dredge. 2. A dredging machine. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| Dreifuss, F | <person> See: Emery-Dreifuss muscular dystrophy. (05 Mar 2000) |
| dreissena | <zoology> A genus of bivalve shells of which one species (D. Polymorpha) is often so abundant as to be very troublesome in the fresh waters of Europe. Origin: NL. Named after Dreyssen, a Belgian physician. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |