fancy sb. (2 the commonest S. sense)
1.
fantasticalness LLL. I. i.
169,
Ham. I. iii. 71
“Costly thy habit . . .
But not express'd in fancy.”
2.
amorous inclination,
love
Mer.V. III. ii. 63
“Tell me where is
bred,”
AYL. III. v. 29,
Tw.N. II. iv. 33
“Our fancies are more
giddy and unfirm . . . Than women's
are,”
Oth. III. iv. 64; used
for ‘one in love’ Compl. 61, 197
3.
musical composition
in an impromptu style Shr. III. ii.
71, 2H4 III. ii.
346.
