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llected or restored. Dissipated those foggy mists of error. Selden. I soon dissipated his fears. Cook. The extreme tendency of civilization is to dissipate all intellectual energy. Hazlitt.

Discomfort; uneasiness. Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes, and adversity is not without comforts and hopes. Bacon.

Distracted; perplexed. "Distraught twixt fear and pity." Spenser. As if thou wert distraught and mad with terror. Shak. To doubt betwixt our senses and our souls Which are the most distraught and full of pain. Mrs. Browning.

h of body or mind; as, to suffer distress from the gout, or from the loss of friends. Not fearing death nor shrinking for distress. Shak.

. . chose my wife as she did her wedding gown." Goldsmith. My brightest hopes giving dark fears a being. As the light does the shadow. Longfellow. In unemphatic affirmative sentences do is, for the most part, archaic or poetical; as, "This just reproach their virtue does excite." Dryden. To do one's best, To do one's d…

To suspect; to fear; to be apprehensive. [Obs.]

Worthy of being feared; redoubtable. [Obs.]

Fearful; apprehensive; suspicious. [Obs.] I am doubtful that you have been conjunct And bosomed with her. Shak.

Free from fear or suspicion. [Obs.] Pretty child, sleep doubtless and secure. Shak.

f breath. Shak. The moon is down; I have not heard the clock. Shak. He that is down needs fear no fall. Bunyan.

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.

One who fears, or lives in fear.

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

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

A fearless person.

Fear or timidity, especially of something supernatural. [Written also eiryness.] The sense of eariness, as twilight came on. De Quincey.

posed to Ant: late; as, the early bird; an early spring; early fruit. Early and provident fear is the mother of safety. Burke. The doorsteps and threshold with the early grass springing up about them. Hawthorne.

ersecution lose all the ill that they can have, if we do not set an edge upon them by our fears and by our vices. Jer. Taylor.

Serving to inspire fear, esp. a dread of seeing ghosts; wild; weird; as, eerie stories. She whose elfin prancer springs By night to eery warblings. Tennyson.

Causing fear; eerie. [Scot.]