dreadless, dredelees, dredeles, dredelesse, dredles

& adv. [Eng. dread; -le .] A. As adjective: 1. Free from dread or fear; fearle , boid, undaunted. "All night the dreadle angel, unpursued, Through heaven's wide campaign held his way." Milton: P. L., vi. 1, 2. 2. Not inspiring fear or dread; secure, safe. "Safe in his dreadle den him thought to hide." Spenser: Visions of World's Vanity, 10. B. As adv.: Without doubt; beyond fear or doubt. "Dreadle , said he, that shall I soon declare; It was complained, that thou hast done great tort Unto an aged woman." Spenser: F. Q., II. v. 17. dread-le -ně , s. [Eng. dreadle ; -ne .] The quality or state of being free from dread or terror; fearle ne , intrepidity. "Zelmane, to whom danger then was a cause of dread. le ne , all the composition of her elements being nothing but fiery, with swiftne of desire cro ed him." Sidney: Arcadia , bk. i. *dread-lý, *dred-11, *dred-lich, adj . [Eng. dread; -ly.] Dreadful. IMG:content-0509.png:[blocks in formation] (1) A heavy woolen, felted cloth, used as a lining for hatchways, ., on board ship. (2) A kind of heavy goods for sailors' wear. (3) A heavy overcoat or cloak made of the cloth described in (1). "Her pleasant face peeped over the collar and capes of a stout dreadnought ." -Lytton: My Novel, bk. i., ch. xi. *dread'-ne , *dred-nes, *dred-ne e, s . [Eng. dread; -ne .] Dread, fear, terror. "Of fas ne haf yee drednes nan." IMG:content-0510.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-0511.png:[blocks in formation] 1. Scrip .: Two kinds of dreams are referred to in the Bible: these may be called ordinary and extraordinary, or natural and supernatural dreams. The first are thus philosophically accounted for: A dream cometh through the multitude of busine " (Eccl. v. 3); in other words, a man in busine who is full of projects and perplexed with anxieties, goes to bed with his mind so excited that he sleeps imperfectly, and has vivid dreams which remain in his memory after he awakes. The method of operation in the extraordinary or supernatural dreams is thus stated: "For God speaketh once, yea twice, yet man perceiveth it not. In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falleth upon men, in slumberings upon the bed; then he openeth the ears of men, and sealeth their instruction" (Job xxxiii. 14-16). God gave directions as to conduct or duty by this method to Abimelech (Gen. xx. 3-7), to Jacob (Gen. xxx i. 11-13), to Laban (Gen. xxx i. 24), to Joseph, the spouse of the Virgin Mary (Matt. i. 20), dream and to others. There were also many prophetic dreams: as those of Joseph (Gen. xxxvii. 5-11), of Pharaoh's chief butler and his chief baker (Gen. xl. 5), and of Nebuchadnezzar (Dan. ii. 1-45), . 2. Mental Phil .: It is a matter of dispute whether the mind sleeps or whether trains of ideas are uninterruptedly pa ing through the former at all times, by night as well as by day. If the latter hypothesis be accepted, then we continually dream when asleep, though only a fraction of our nightly visions, being those which we see when half awake, leave deep enough traces in the memory to be afterward recalled. In sleep every train of ideas seems to us a series of events pa ing before the eyes, or of objects affecting the senses; and as, on the principle of a ociation, ideas are linked together in various ways, like the meshes of a net rather than the links of a chain, the sleeper is capable of calling up before him the absent, the dead, distant times and places as he fancies them to be, with no sense of anachronism or incongruity. Some external cause -a sudden noise, for instance, falling upon the ear so loudly as to compel partial attention to its occurrence-will set in motion a long train of ideas, each following, its predece or "with the quickne of Each of these ideas being mistaken for an occurrence, one will fancy he has lived through exciting days, weeks, months, or even years, when in reality not ten minutes, or perhaps seconds, have elapsed since the noise was heard. Health, and especially proper digestion, with absence of remorse, tends to make dreams pleasurable; the presence of one or all of these has the contrary effect. (For the dreams of Scripture see 1.) Various instances of apparently prophetic dreams are on record, and every one hears others from his acquaintances. Opinions are divided as to the explanation of these perplexing phenomena. Crabb thus discriminates between dream and "Dreams and reveries are alike opposed reverie: to the reality, and have their origin in the imagination; but the former commonly pa in sleep, and the latter when awake: the dream may, and does commonly, arise when the imagination is in a sound state; the reverie is the fruit of a heated imagina tion; dreams come in the course of nature: reveries the consequence of a peculiar ferment. When the dream is applied to the act of one that is awake, it admits of another distinction from reverie . They both designate what is confounded, but the dream is le extravagant than the reverie. Ambitious men please themselves with dreams of future greatne ; enthusiasts debase the purity of the Christian religion by blending their own wild reveries with the doctrines of the Gospel. He who indulges himself in idle dream slays up a store of disappointment for himself when he recovers his recollection, and finds that it is nothing but a dream ; a love of singularity operating on an ardent mind will too often lead men to indulge in strange reveries.' (Crabb: Eng. Synon.) dream-determined, a. That which comes to pa or is determined by a dream. "In what veiled hour or dream - determined place." A. C. Swinburne: Tristram of Lyone e, i. dream-like, a . Faint, unreal, unsubstantial. "Some remembrance of dream - like joys." Words worth: Excursion, bk. iii. *dream-reader, *dreme-redare, *drem-reder, *dreem-reder, s. A diviner by dreams; an interpreter of dreams. "The prouest of botelers foryete of his drem-reder."Wycliffe: Gen. xl. 23. dream, *dreme (pa. t. dreamed, dreamt), v. i. & t. [DREAM, 8.] A. Intransitive: 1. To have dreams, ideas, or images in sleep. "I dreamed that I was conveyed into a wide and boundle plain."- Tatler . 2. It is followed by of before the subject of the dream. "I have nightly since Dreamt of encounters 'twixt thyself and me." Shakesp.: Coriolanus , iv. 5. 3. To think, to imagine, to entertain an idea. "These boys know little they are sons to th' king, Nor Cymbeline dreams that they are alive." Shakesp.: Cymbeline, iii. 8. IMG:content-0512.png:[blocks in formation] gō, põt, dreamer 2. To divine or find out by dreams. "The Macedon by Jove's decree, Was taught to dream an herb for Ptolemy." Dryden: To the Duche of Ormond, 133, 134. 3. To pa or spend in reveries or idle thoughts. "Why does Anthony dream out his hours, And tempts not fortune for a nobler day?" Dryden: All for Love, i. 1.