Dictionary: DRAWN-BUT'TER – DREAM'ER

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DRAWN-BUT'TER, n.

Melted butter.

DRAW'-NET, n.

A net for catching the larger sorts of fowls, made of pack-thread, with wide meshes.

DRAW'-WELL, n.

A deep well, from which water is drawn by a long cord or pole. – Grew.

DRAY, n. [Sax. dræge, L. trahea, from draw, traho.]

  1. A low cart or carriage on wheels, drawn by a horse. – Addison.
  2. A sled. – Encyc.

DRAY'-CART, n.

A dray.

DRAY'-HORSE, n.

A horse used for drawing a dray. – Tatler.

DRAY'-MAN, n.

A man who attends a dray. South.

DRAY'-PLOW, n.

A particular kind of plow. – Mortimer.

DRAZ'EL, n. [draz'l.]

A dirty woman; a slut. [This is a vulgar word; in New England pronounced droz'l, and I believe always applied to a female.]

DREAD, a.

  1. Exciting great fear or apprehension. – Shak.
  2. Terrible; frightful. – Shak.
  3. Awful; venerable in the highest degree; as, dread sovereign; dread majesty; dread tribunal.

DREAD, n. [dred; Sax. dræd. Qu. from the root of the L. terreo, or that of Sw. rädd, fearful, rädas, to dread, Dan. ræd, fearful, Sp. arredrar, to terrify, or Ir. cratham, to tremble. If d is a prefix, see Class Rd, No. 14, 19, 22, 25, 60, 78. The primary sense is probably to tremble, or to shrink.]

  1. Great fear, or apprehension of evil or danger. It expresses more than fear, and less than terror or fright. It is an uneasiness or alarm excited by expected pain, loss or other evil. We speak of the dread of evil; the dread of suffering; the dread of the divine displeasure. It differs from terror also in being less sudden or more continued.
  2. Awe; fear united with respect.
  3. Terror. Shall not his dread fall on you? – Job xiii.
  4. The cause of fear; the person or the thing dreaded. Let him be your dread. – Is. viii.

DREAD, v.t.

To be in great fear. Dread not, neither be afraid of them. – Deut i.

DREAD, v.t.

To fear in a great degree; as, to dread the approach of a storm.

DREAD'A-BLE, a.

That is to be dreaded. [Not used.]

DREAD'ED, pp.

Feared.

DREAD'ER, n.

One that fears, or lives in fear. – Swift.

DREAD'FUL, a.

  1. Impressing great fear; terrible; formidable; as, a dreadful storm, or dreadful night. The great and dreadful day of the Lord. – Mal. iv.
  2. Awful; venerable. How dreadful is this place. – Gen. xlviii.

DREAD'FUL-LY, adv.

Terribly; in a manner to be dreaded. – Dryden.

DREAD'FUL-NESS, n.

Terribleness; the quality of being dreadful; frightfulness.

DREAD'LESS, a.

Fearless; bold; not intimidated; undaunted; free from fear or terror; intrepid. – Milton.

DREAD'LESS-NESS, n.

Fearlessness; undauntedness; freedom from fear or terror; boldness. – Sidney.

DREAM, n. [D. droom; G. traum; Sw. dröm; Dan. dröm. In Russ. dremlyu is to sleep. But I take the primary sense to be, to rove, and the word to be allied to Gr. δρομη, a running, which seems to be from the root of roam, ramble. If not, it may signify to form images, and be allied to frame.]

  1. The thought or series of thoughts of a person in sleep. We apply dream, in the singular, to a series of thoughts, which occupy the mind of a sleeping person, in which he imagines he has a view of real things or transactions. A dream is a series of thoughts not under the command of reason, and hence wild and irregular. – Stewart.
  2. In Scripture, dreams were sometimes impressions on the minds of sleeping persons, made by divine agency. God came to Abimelech in a dream. Joseph was warned by God in a dream. – Gen. xx. Matth. ii.
  3. A vain fancy; a wild conceit; an unfounded suspicion.

DREAM, v.i. [pret. dreamed or dreamt; D. droomen; G. träamen; Sw. drömma; Dan. drömmer.]

  1. To have ideas or images in the mind, in the state of sleep; with of before a noun; as, to dream of a battle; to dream of an absent friend.
  2. To think; to imagine; as, he little dreamed of his approaching fate.
  3. To think idly. They dream on in a course of reading, without digesting. – Locke.
  4. To be sluggish; to waste time in vain thoughts; as, to dream away life.

DREAM, v.t.

To see in a dream. And dreamt the future fight. – Dryden. It is followed by a noun of the like signification; as, to dream in a dream.

DREAM'ER, n.

  1. One who dreams.
  2. A fanciful man; a visionary; one who forms or entertains vain schemes; as, a political dreamer. Marshall.
  3. A man lost in wild imagination; a mope; a sluggard.