See Also: dread(1)(dictionary)
dread(2)(dictionary)
dread(3)(dictionary)
dread(4)(dictionary)
talion dread(medicine)
dread 1, verb(dictionary)
dread 2, noun(dictionary)

dread(3) (iou)



dread noun. ME.
[from DREAD verb.]
Extreme fear or apprehension; great awe. ME.
C. Connolly The dread of loneliness being keener than the fear of bondage, we get married.
Doubt; risk of something being otherwise. ME-M16.
An object or cause of dread. ME.
Milton Shouting to behold Their once great dread, captive and blind before them.
A sudden take-off and flight by a colony of gulls or other birds. M20.
A Rastafarian; a person who wears dreadlocks. L20.
Comb.: dreadlock a tight ringlet or braid in a hairstyle, characteristic of Rastafarians, in which the head is covered with such ringlets that hang down loose (usu. in pl.).