noun. A state of abstracted musing; daydreaming.

noun. A daydream.

noun. A state of mental abstraction in which more or less aimless fancy predominates over the reasoning faculty; dreamy meditation; fanciful musing.

noun. A waking dream; a brown study; an imaginative, fanciful, or fantastic train of thought; a day-dream.

noun. The object or product of reverie or idle fancy; a visionary scheme, plan, aim, ideal, or the like; a dream.

noun. In music, an instrumental composition of a vague and dreamy character.

noun. A loose or irregular train of thought occurring in musing or mediation; deep musing; daydream.

noun. An extravagant conceit of the fancy; a vision.

noun. An extravagant conceit of the imagination; a vision.

noun. absentminded dreaming while awake

noun. an abstracted state of absorption

"The bower becomes significant, then, as the externalization of this internal, unreachable environment where any kind of reverie is possible; for Kitty, under constant surveillance, the bower represents a winsome retreat that "possessed such a charm over her senses, as constantly to tranquillize her mind and quiet her spirits," a place which she believed "alone could restore her to herself" (193)."

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