Lexicon: drape – dream

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drape (-d), verbal adj. [Fr. drape-r, weave < Fr. drap, cloth.]

Cover; cloak; robe.

draught (-s), n. [early ME draht < Germanic dragan, draw, v.] (webplay: drinking).

Drink; swig; large gulp; quantity swallowed.

draw, n. [see draw, v.] (webplay: death, ship).

Drawbridge; barrier.

draw (drawn, drew), v. [OE drasgan, draw, pull.] (webplay: day, death, face, fear, figure, itself, picture, sign, water, well, wind, withdraw).

  1. Bring; carry; pull near; (see Exodus 3:5).
  2. Come; go; (see Exodus 12:21).
  3. Sketch; design.
  4. Drain; siphon; extract; (see Genesis 24:11).
  5. Open; close as in curtains.
  6. Condense; minimize.

drawer (-s), n. [see draw, v.]

Box; sliding receptacle in a case; wooden compartment with a cedar bottom; small storage unit that pulls out from a piece of furniture.

dread (-ed), adj. [ME adrad < ofdrad, frighten, terrify.] (webplay: easy, fright, great, terrors).

Abhorred; feared.

dread, n. [see dread, v.] (webplay: awe, awful, danger, fear, fright, terror, uneasiness).

Fear; apprehension; panic; (see Genesis 9:2).

dread, v. [early ME dreden; see dread, adj.] (webplay: cause, fear).

Fear; tremble; apprehend; expect with anxiety; (see Deuteronomy 1:29).

dream (-s), n. [early ME drém.] (webplay: friend, God, life, man, mind, real, see, sleep, think, thought, time, view, visionary).

  1. Images; ideas in sleep; more revealing than waking thoughts; (see Genesis 31:24).
  2. Fiction; imagination; fantasy; vision; (see Genesis 37:20).
  3. Insight; revelation; heightened state of awareness; (see Genesis 20:3).
  4. Spiritual bliss; vision of perfection; utopia; (see Ecclesiastes 5:7).
  5. Poetic imagination; goals; aspirations; ambitions.

dream (-ed, -ing), v. [OE dréman.] (webplay: absent, diving, entertains, friend, life, mind, reading, real, see, sleep, thought, unfounded).

  1. Envision; experience in slumber; see while asleep; have mental images appear during the Rapid Eye Movement portion of the mind's resting state; (see Genesis 28:12).
  2. Imagine; invent; make believe.
  3. Fantasize; pretend; act as of; make believe; create an imaginary alternative.
  4. Daydream; use time trivially.