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   { Reverie , Revery , } n.; pl. Reveries . [F. réverie, fr. rêver to dream, rave, be light-headed.  Cf. Rave.]
   A loose or irregular train of thought occurring in musing or mediation; deep musing; daydream. “Rapt in nameless reveries.”  
   Tennyson.
   
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   When ideas float in our mind without any reflection or regard of the understanding, it is that which the French call revery, our language has scarce a name for it.
   Locke.
   
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   An extravagant conceit of the fancy; a vision. [R.]
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   There are infinite reveries and numberless extravagancies pass through both [wise and foolish minds].
   Addison.
   
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