Whim"sey, Whimsy (?), n.; pl. Whimseys (#) or Whimsies (#). [See Whim.]
1.
A whim; a freak; a capricious notion, a fanciful or odd conceit.
"The
whimsies of poets and painters."
Ray.
Men's folly, whimsies, and inconstancy.
Swift.
Mistaking the whimseys of a feverish brain for the calm revelation of truth.
Bancroft.
2. Mining
A whim.
© Webster 1913.
Whim"sy (?), n.
A whimsey.
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