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Full of dread or terror; fearful. [Obs.] "With dreadful heart." Chaucer.

In a dreadful manner; terribly. Dryden.

The quality of being dreadful.

With dread. Warner.

Free from dread; fearless; intrepid; dauntless; as, dreadless heart. "The dreadless angel." Milton.

Freedom from dread.

Dreadful. [Obs.] "Dreadly spectacle." Spenser. -- adv.

A fearless person.

y battleship having its main armament entirely of big guns all of one caliber. Since the Dreadnought was built, the caliber of the heaviest guns has increased from 12 in. to 13½ in., 14 in., and 15 in., and the displacement of the largest batteships from 18,000 tons to 30,000 tons and upwards. The term superdreadnought…

To braid. [Obs.] Spenser.

The breadth of a foot; -- used as a measure. Longfellow. Not so much as a footbreadth. Deut. ii. 5.

To admonish beforehand, or before the act or event. Bp. Hall.

To advise or counsel before the time of action, or before the event. Shak.

To tell beforehand; to signify by tokens; to predestine. [Obs.] Spenser.

To tread down; to trample upon. [Obs.] In hell shall they be all fortroden of devils. Chaucer.

of plain sweet cake seasoned with ginger, and sometimes made in fanciful shapes. "Gingerbread that was full fine." Chaucer. Gingerbread tree (Bot.), the doom palm; -- so called from the resemblance of its fruit to gingerbread. See Doom Palm. -- Gingerbread work, ornamentation, in architecture or decoration, of a fant…

Bread made of unbolted wheat flour. [U. S.] Bartlett.

Having the breadth of a hair; very narrow; as, a hairbreadth escape.

The diameter or breadth of a hair; a very small distance; sometimes, definitely, the forty-eighth part of an inch. Every one could sling stones at an hairbreadth and not miss. Judg. xx. 16

Informed by insufficient reading; superficial; shallow. Dryden.