drayage (age as Ig)

[Eng. dray; -age.] 1. The use of a dray. 2. The charge or hire of a dray. *drăz'-el, s . [DROSSEL.] A slut, a vagabond wench, a prostitute. "As the devil uses witches, To be their cully for a space, That, when the time's expired, the drazels Forever may become his va als." Butler: Hudibras , III. i. 947. dread, *drade, *dred, *drede, s . & a . [DREAD, U.] A. As substantive : 1. Great fear, terror, or affright, accompanied with apprehension of evil. "And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth." Gen. ix. 2. 2. Habitual or reverential fear; awe, reverence. "Withdraw thine hand far from me: and let not thy dread make me afraid." -Job xiii. 21. 3. That which causes fear, terror, or affright; the person or thing dreaded. "Hector, who, elate with joy, Now shakes his lance, and braves the dread of Troy." Pope: Homer's Iliad , xxii. 855, 356. 4. Used as a sort of respectful addre to a person greatly superior, as an object of dread or veneration. "The which to hear vouchsafe, O dearest dread, awhile." Spenser: F. Q., L. (Introd.) *5. Fury. "Of courtesie to mee the cause aread That thee against me drew with so impetuous dread." Spenser: F. Q., II. v. 16. B. As adjective: 1. Exciting or tending to excite great fear, terror, or affright; dreadful, frightful. "Rebuke and dread correction wait on us, And they shall do their office." 2. Awe-inspiring. Shakesp.: Henry IV., Pt. 1., v. 1. The American Dictionary and Cyclopedia dread 3. To be reverenced in the highest degree; used in addre es to a sovereign, . "Henry, our dread liege." Shakesp.: Henry VI., Pt. II ., v. 1. *4. Afraid, in dread. "Constant in was for tham dred." Cursor Mundi, 21,386. dread, *drede, *dreden, v . t . & i. [A. S. drædan ; O. S. ant - drádan , an - drádan : M. H. Ger. en -tráten; O. H. Ger. an - tráten .] A. Trans.: To fear in a very great degree. "Of all the Highland princes whose history is well. known to us, he was the greatest and most dreaded."Macaulay: Hist . Eng ., ch. xiii. *B. Reflex.: To alarm greatly. "Dredeth gu noght."-Genesis and Exodus , 3,129. C. In trans.: To be in a state of dread or great fear; to fear greatly. IMG:content-0507.png:[blocks in formation] A. As adjective : *1. Originally, as the etymology imported, full of dread: not inspiring dread, but feeling it. "For so the the Lord shall gyve to thee there a dreedful heart and faylinge eyen." - Wycliffe. Deut. xxviii. 65. *2. It is sometimes followed by of before the object of dread. "Dreadful of dangers that might him betide." Spenser: F. Q., III. i. 87. 3. Inspiring dread; terrible, fearful, tremendous. "That day of wrath, that dreadful day." Scott: Lay of the Last Minstrel , vi. 31. *4. Awe-inspiring, venerable, awful. "How dreadful is this place." -Genesis xxviii. 17. B. As subst.: A popular name for a newspaper or journal devoted to the publication of sensational stories, news, .; as, I saw him reading a penny dreadful. For the difference between dreadful and fear ful , see FEARFUL; for that between dreadful and formidable , see FORMIDABLE.