Emily Dickinson Lexicon

DREAM, v.i. [pret. dreamed or dreamt; D. droomen; G. träamen; Sw. drömma; Dan. drömmer.]

1. To have ideas or images in the mind, in the state of sleep; with of before a noun; as, to dream of a battle; to dream of an absent friend.
2. To think; to imagine; as, he little dreamed of his approaching fate.
3. To think idly. They dream on in a course of reading, without digesting. – Locke.
4. To be sluggish; to waste time in vain thoughts; as, to dream away life.