Definition of Woolgethering
Wool"gath`er*ing (?), a. Indulging in a
vagrant or idle exercise of the imagination; roaming upon a fruitless
quest; idly fanciful.
Wool"gath`er*ing, n. Indulgence in idle
imagination; a foolish or useless pursuit or design.
His wits were a woolgathering, as they
say. Burton.
Wool"gath`er*ing (?), a. Indulging in a
vagrant or idle exercise of the imagination; roaming upon a fruitless
quest; idly fanciful.
Wool"gath`er*ing, n. Indulgence in idle
imagination; a foolish or useless pursuit or design.
His wits were a woolgathering, as they
say. Burton.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
WOOL GATHERING. Your wits are gone a woolgathering;
saying to an absent man, one in a reverie, or absorbed
in thought.
- The Devil's Dictionary (Ambrose Bierce)
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