*fanta*

{ } n. [ Cf. Fantigue. ] State of worry or excitement; fidget; fuss; also, indisposition; pet; sulks. [ Slang ] [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. (Zool.) (a) A variety of the domestic pigeon, so called from the shape of the tail. (b) Any bird of the Australian genus Rhipidura, in which the tail is spread in the form of a fan during flight. They belong to the family of flycatchers. (c) the fantail goldfish. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) a type of goldfish bred artificially, having a realtively short oval body and a tail with four lobes arrayed somewhat like a folding fan, as though forming a part of the surface of a cone. Called also fantail. [ PJC ]

n. [ It. See Fancy. ] (Mus.) A continuous composition, not divided into what are called movements, or governed by the ordinary rules of musical design, but in which the author's fancy roves unrestricted by set form. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ From Fantasy. ] Filled with fancies or imaginations. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Phantasm, Fancy. ] Same as Phantasm. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One whose manners or ideas are fantastic. [ R. ] Coleridge. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ F. fantastique, fr. Gr. &unr_;&unr_;&unr_;&unr_;&unr_;&unr_;&unr_;&unr_;&unr_;&unr_;&unr_; able to represent, fr. &unr_;&unr_;&unr_;&unr_;&unr_;&unr_;&unr_;&unr_;&unr_; to make visible. See Fancy. ] 1. Existing only in imagination; fanciful; imaginary; not real; chimerical. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Having the nature of a phantom; unreal. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Indulging the vagaries of imagination; whimsical; full of absurd fancies; capricious; as, fantastic minds; a fantastic mistress. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Resembling fantasies in irregularity, caprice, or eccentricity; irregular; oddly shaped; grotesque. [ 1913 Webster ]

There at the foot of yonder nodding beech,
That wreathes its old fantastic roots so high. T. Gray.

Syn. -- Fanciful; imaginative; ideal; visionary; capricious; chimerical; whimsical; queer. See Fanciful. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A person given to fantastic dress, manners, etc.; an eccentric person; a fop. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

Our fantastics, who, having a fine watch, take all ocasions to draw it out to be seen. Fuller. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Fanciful; unreal; whimsical; capricious; fantastic. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Fantastically. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a fantastic manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

the letter A, in scarlet, fantastically embroidered with gold thread, upon her bosom. Hawthorne. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of being fantastic. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of being fantastical; fancifulness; whimsicality. Ruskin. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. Fantastically. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Fantasticalness. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ It. ] A fantastic. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Fantasies [ See Fancy. ] 1. Fancy; imagination; especially, a whimsical or fanciful conception; a vagary of the imagination; whim; caprice; humor. [ 1913 Webster ]

Is not this something more than fantasy ? Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

A thousand fantasies
Begin to throng into my memory. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Fantastic designs. [ 1913 Webster ]

Embroidered with fantasies and flourishes of gold thread. Hawthorne. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To have a fancy for; to be pleased with; to like; to fancy. [ Obs. ] Cavendish. [ 1913 Webster ]

Which he doth most fantasy. Robynson (More's Utopia). [ 1913 Webster ]