To form a fancy or an ideal conception of; imagine.
To believe with little or no reason; imagine; suppose; presume: as, he fancies that he is ill; I fancy you will fail.
To take a fancy to; like; be pleased with.
To breed or raise, with reference to pleasing the fancy; produce as a fancier.
To have or form a fancy or an ideal conception; believe or suppose without proof; imagine.
To love.
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The productive imagination, especially as exercised in an unregulated, desultory, or capricious manner; the power or the act of forming in the mind images of unusual, impossible, odd, grotesque, whimsical, etc., combinations of things. See imagination.
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The result or product of an exercise of the fancy; a fanciful image or conception of the mind; a representation in thought, speech, or art of anything ideal or imaginary: as, a pleasing fancy or conceit.
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An idea or opinion formed upon slight grounds or with little consideration; a speculative belief in the possibility or reality of something untried or unknown; an impression, supposition, or notion: as, that's a mere fancy.
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Productive or operative taste; design; invention.
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Inclination; liking; fondness: as, that which suits your fancy.
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Something that pleases or entertains without necessarily having real use or value.
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A short, impromptu musical piece, usually instrumental; a fantasy.
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One of the ornamental tags or aglets attached to the points in the seventeenth century.
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A fancy roller (which see, under II.).
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Any class of people who cultivate a special taste; fanciers collectively.
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Synonyms Fantasy, etc. See fantasy and imagination.
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Conceit.
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Penchant, bias, vagary, whimsey.
Involving fancy; of a fanciful or imaginary nature; ideal; illusory; notional; dictated by or dependent on the fancy: as, a fancy portrait; fancy prices; fancy strokes or touches.
Fine; elegant; ornamental; adapted to please the taste or fancy (as a trade-epithet); of superfine quality: as, fancy stationery; fancy flour.
As commonly used, articles of show and ornament, not including valuable jewelry, but including appliances of dress less useful than ordinary textile materials or garments made of them, as women's collars, ruffles, ties, and the like, and such articles as inkstands, paper-weights, card-receivers, button-hooks, etc., of ornamental design.