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danger; easily frightened; timorous; not bold; fearful; shy. Poor is the triumph o'er the timid hare. Thomson.

The quality or state of being timid; timorousness; timidness.

Timid. [Obs.] Hudibras.

Descended from Fatima, the daughter and only child of Mohammed. -- n.

To make timid or fearful; to inspire of affect with fear; to deter, as by threats; to dishearten; to abash. Now guilt, once harbored in the conscious breast, Intimidates the brave, degrades the great. Johnson.

The act of making timid or fearful or of deterring by threats; the state of being intimidated; as, the voters were kept from the polls by intimidation. The king carried his measures in Parliament by intimidation. Paley.

Tending or serving to intimidate.

A white, crystalline substance obtained as an anhydride of alanine, and regarded as an imido derivative of lactic acid.

ibunal. They will not arraign you for want of knowledge. Dryden. It is not arrogance, but timidity, of which the Christian body should now be arraigned by the world. I. Taylor.

Payment of money exacted by means of intimidation; also, extortion of money from a person by threats of public accusation, exposure, or censure.

An act of bluffing; an expression of self-confidence for the purpose of intimidation; braggadocio; as, that is only bluff, or a bluff.

To intimidate; to restrain or coerce by intimidation or violence; -- used originally of the intimidation of negro voters, in Louisiana. [Slang, U.S.]

To intimidate by bullying; to rally contemptuously; to badger. [Low]

To intimidate with threats and by an overbearing, swaggering demeanor; to act the part of a bully toward. For the last fortnight there have been prodigious shoals of volunteers gone over to bully the French, upon hearing the peace was just signing. Tatler.

Timid; fearful; cowardly. Bunyan.

Of or pertaining to constitutional complexion. A moral rather than a complexional timidity. Burke.

To force (a person) to do something, or give up something, by intimidation; to coerce. Wharton.

tution or natural disposition of the mind or body; naturally; as, he was constitutionally timid. The English were constitutionally humane. Hallam.

Destitute of courage; timid; cowardly. Fie, coward woman, and soft-hearted wretch. Shak.

Want of courage to face danger; extreme timidity; pusillanimity; base fear of danger or hurt; lack of spirit. The cowardice of doing wrong. Milton. Moderation was despised as cowardice. Macualay.