The Collaborative International Dictionary
Fancying
Fancy \Fan"cy\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Fancied, p. pr. & vb. n. Fancying.]
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To figure to one's self; to believe or imagine something without proof.
If our search has reached no farther than simile and metaphor, we rather fancy than know.
--Locke. To love. [Obs.]
--Shak.
Wiktionary
fancying
n. Something fancied or imagined. vb. (present participle of fancy English)
Usage examples of "fancying".
The school, a cosmopolitan crammer, which was dead now, like Richard's father, who had scrimped to send him there, used to accommodate a staff of twenty-five and over two hundred pupilsan ecology of estrogen and testosterone, bumfluff, flares, fights, fancyings, first loves.