2. The charge, or sum paid, for the use of a dray.
Drayman
(Dray"man) n.; pl. Draymen A man who attends a dray.
Drazel
(Draz"el) n. [Cf. Dross, Drossel.] A slut; a vagabond wench. Same as Drossel. [Obs.] Hudibras.
Dread
(Dread) v. t. [imp. & p. p. Dreaded; p. pr. & vb. n. Dreading.] [AS. drdan, in comp.; akin to
OS. dradan, OHG. tratan, both only in comp.] To fear in a great degree; to regard, or look forward to,
with terrific apprehension.
When at length the moment dreaded through so many years came close, the dark cloud passed away
from Johnson's mind.
Macaulay. Dread
(Dread), v. i. To be in dread, or great fear.
Dread not, neither be afraid of them.
Deut. i. 29. Dread
(Dread), n.
1. Great fear in view of impending evil; fearful apprehension of danger; anticipatory terror.
The secret dread of divine displeasure.
Tillotson.
The dread of something after death.
Shak. 2. Reverential or respectful fear; awe.
The fear of you, and the dread of you, shall be upon every beast of the earth.
Gen. ix. 2.
His scepter shows the force of temporal power,
The attribute to awe and majesty,
Wherein doth sit the
dread and fear of kings.
Shak. 3. An object of terrified apprehension.
4. A person highly revered. [Obs.] "Una, his dear dread." Spenser.
5. Fury; dreadfulness. [Obs.] Spenser.
6. Doubt; as, out of dread. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Syn. — Awe; fear; affright; terror; horror; dismay; apprehension. See Reverence.
Dread
(Dread), a.
1. Exciting great fear or apprehension; causing terror; frightful; dreadful.
A dread eternity! how surely mine.
Young. 2. Inspiring with reverential fear; awful' venerable; as, dread sovereign; dread majesty; dread tribunal.
Dreadable
(Dread"a*ble) a. Worthy of being dreaded.
Dread-bolted
(Dread"-bolt`ed) a. Armed with dreaded bolts. "Dread-bolted thunder." [Poetic] Shak.
Dreader
(Dread"er) n. One who fears, or lives in fear.
Dreadful
(Dread"ful) a.
