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Oppressing with fear or horror; appalling; terrible; as, an awful scene. "The hour of Nature's awful throes." Hemans.

In an awful manner; in a manner to fill with terror or awe; fearfully; reverently.

Wanting reverence; void of respectful fear. "Awless insolence." Dryden.

or the instrument which plays, base. [Now commonly written bass.] The trebles squeak for fear, the bases roar. Dryden.

To jut over; to overhang. There is a cliff, whose high and bending head Looks fearfully in the confined deep. Shak.

he act of besetting, or the state of being beset; also, that which besets one, as a sin. "Fearing a besetment." Kane.

er or greater degree; more; as, to love one better than another. Never was monarch better feared, and loved. Shak.

veal; to disclose; to betray. [Obs. or Archaic] The murder being once done, he is in less fear, and in more hope that the deed shall not be bewrayed or known. Robynson (More's Utopia. ) Thy speech bewrayeth thee. Matt. xxvi. 73.

To extort money from by exciting fears of injury other than bodily harm, as injury to reputation, distress of mind, etc.; as, to blackmail a merchant by threatening to expose an alleged fraud. [U. S.]

The act or practice of extorting money by exciting fears of injury other than bodily harm, as injury to reputation.

To grow or become white; as, his cheek blanched with fear; the rose blanches in the sun. [Bones] blanching on the grass. Tennyson.

To draw back from; to deny from fear. [Obs.] He now blenched what before he affirmed. Evelyn.

Real; actual; put in execution. [Obs.] Be brought to bodily act. Shak. Bodily fear, apprehension of physical injury.

The quality of being brave; fearless; intrepidity. Remember, sir, my liege, . . . The natural bravery of your isle. Shak.

Not breathing; holding the breath, on account of fear, expectation, or intense interest; attended with a holding of the breath; as, breathless attention. But breathless, as we grow when feeling most. Byron.

See Ale. The man that 's bid to bride-ale, if he ha' cake, And drink enough, he need not fear his stake. B. Jonson.

pecter; anything imaginary that causes needless fright; something used to excite needless fear; also, something really dangerous, used to frighten children, etc. "Bugaboos to fright ye." Lloyd. But, to the world no bugbear is so great As want of figure and a small estate. Pope. The bugaboo of the liberals is the church…

report, by whispers, or secretly. I will buzz abroad such prophecies That Edward shall be fearful of his life. Shak.

fine in, or as in, a cabin. I am cabined, cribbed, confined, bound in To saucy doubts and fears. Shak.

wne. Impudence is now a cardinal virtue. Drayton. But cardinal sins, and hollow hearts, I fear ye. Shak. Cardinal numbers, the numbers one, two, three, etc., in distinction from first, second, third, etc., which are called ordinal numbers. -- Cardinal points (a) (Geol.) The four principal points of the compass, or int…