n. see fantod. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]
n. (Zool.)
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
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 ]
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. [ 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. ]
There at the foot of yonder nodding beech,
That wreathes its old fantastic roots so high. T. Gray.