intransitive. To hope, to trust; to look forward to an event with hope or joy; to rejoice, exult. Also transitive and reflexive.

intransitive. To entertain expectation of something desired; to look (mentally) with expectation. Const. †to, †after, †of (obsolete), for; also with…

To expect confidently, hope: = trust, v. 5 (Const. with clause, or intransitive with of.)

transitive. To imagine or envisage as if in a dream; to have a vision or fantasy of. Now chiefly: to think or daydream about (something greatly…

passive and intransitive (said of the affections). Obsolete.

to cross one's fingers: to hook one finger over another (typically the middle finger over the first finger), esp. to do this as a sign supposed to…