Dictionary entry

Fancy (2)

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Fan″cy, v. i. [imp. & p. p.Fancied (?), p. pr. & vb. n.Fancying (�).] 1. 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.

2. To love. Shak.