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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Rev·er·ie Rev·er·y n.; pl. Reveries
 1. A loose or irregular train of thought occurring in musing or mediation; deep musing; daydream. “Rapt in nameless reveries.”
    When ideas float in our mind without any reflection or regard of the understanding, it is that which the French call revery, our language has scarce a name for it.   --Locke.
 2. An extravagant conceit of the fancy; a vision. [R.]
    There are infinite reveries and numberless extravagancies pass through both [wise and foolish minds].   --Addison.