fancy

[…] But know that in the soul / Are many lesser faculties, that serve / Reason as chief; among these Fancy next / Her office holds […]

How now, my lord! why do you keep alone, / Of sorriest fancies your companions making, / Using those thoughts which should indeed have died / With them they think on?

When you have well viewed the Scenes and Devillish shapes of this Practicall Metamorphosis, and scan’d them in your serious thoughts, you will wonder at their audacious phant’sies, who seeme to hold Specificall deformities, or that any part can seeme unhandsome in their Eyes, which hath appeared good and beautifull unto their Maker […]

I had a fancy to learn to play the flute.

And they’ve taken a fancy to me, Aunt said. Kitto and the others. That means they like me.

For you, fair Hermia, look you arm yourself / To fit your fancies to your father’s will;

Trainspotting is the fancy of a special lot.

He fell out of favor with the boxing fancy after the incident.

London-pride is a pretty fancy, and does well for borders.

a French fancy; a fondant fancy; cream fancies

[He] sung those tunes to the overscutch’d huswifes that he heard the carmen whistle, and sware they were his fancies or his good-nights.

When you have mastered plainsies, the regular jack game, and have learned all the rules, you will be ready to use this part of the book. A fancy is a variation of plainsies which usually requires more skill than plainsies does.