Wool"gath`er*ing (?), a.
Indulging in a vagrant or idle exercise of the imagination; roaming upon a fruitless quest; idly fanciful.
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Wool"gath`er*ing, n.
Indulgence in idle imagination; a foolish or useless pursuit or design.
His wits were a woolgathering, as they say.
Burton.
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