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ree; 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.

Armed with dreaded bolts. "Dread-bolted thunder." [Poetic] Shak.

Worthy of being dreaded.

One who fears, or lives in fear.

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.

ny 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 superdreadnough…

To dread. [Obs.] Sir P. Sidney.

Dread of evil. [Obs.]

See Dreadnought, above.

To turn from as ill-omened; to hate in the highest degree, as if with religious dread; loathe; as, to abominate all impiety.

Put in dread; afraid. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Coming; any important arrival; approach. Death's dreadful advent. Young. Expecting still his advent home. Tennyson.

Dread of a current of air.