Dictionary entry

Morpheus

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Mor″pheus (môr″fūs or môr″fē̍‐ŭs), n. [L., fr. Gr. Μορφεύσ prop., the fashioner or molder, because of the shapes he calls up before the sleeper, fr. μορφή form, shape.] (Class. Myth.) The god of dreams.