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Show i more ingenuity than truth, from dpip vg iz, the comedy of life ; dreams being as plays are, a reprefentation of fomething which does not really happen This conceit Funius has enlarged b quoting an epigram That e'er this tongue of mine ‘That laid the fentence of dread banifhmen On yond® proud man, fhould take it off agai Shakefpeare's Richard 11 With words of footh It cannot be, but thou haft murther'd him So fhould a murtherer look, fo dread, fo grim Shakefpeare To be expos'd againft the warring winds To ftand againft the deep dread bolted thunder Shakefpeare Terrour feiz'd the rebel hoft Tunvn wog 6 3% 1 wetkyvoyi pade wai T ‘When, coming towards them, fo dread they fa The bottom of the mountains upward turn'd. Milt 2. Awful ; venerable in the higheft degree Thou, attended glorioufly from heav'n Shalt in the fky appear, and from thee fen in the preface to be metuendiffimi regis our dread {overeign's 7o DrEAD. . a. [from the noun. T fear in an exceflive degree ma defpif that whic and which yet all, eve terrifies others thofe wh mof drea muft in a little time eacounter 9o DrREAD. w. #n it Wake To be in fear Dread not, neither be afraid of them. Dent.i. 8 DRrE'ADER. #./. [from dread. One tha lives in fear I have fufpended muc great dreaders of popery of my pity towards th Saift DrE‘ADFUL. adjs [dread and full. 1. Terrible ; frightful Milton Accompanied with damps and dreadful gloom Milton Thy love, ftill arm'd with fate Is dreadful as thy hate Granwille DRE‘ADFULNESS Gengfis dreadful. Terriblenefs ; frightfulnefs 1t may juftly ferve for matter of extreme terrour to the wicked, whether they regard the dieadfulngfs of the day in which they fhall be tried, o the quality of the judge by whom they are to b tried Hakewill on Providence Dre‘abprurry. adv. [fro Terribly; frightfully dreadful. Not fharp revenge, nor hell itfelf, can fin A fiercer torment than a guilty mind ‘Which day and night doth dreadfully accufe Condemns the wretch, and fill the charge renews Dre'aprEss adj [fro dread. Dryden. Fear lefs; unaffrighted; intrepid; unfhaken undaunted ; free from terrour Dzeadlefs faid he, that fhall I {oon declare . It was complain'd, that thou hadft done great tor Unto an aged woman Fairy Queen All night the dreadlefs angel, unpurfued Through heav'n's wide champa‘gn held his way wil conceit Let him kee A hundred knights ; yes, that on ev'ry dream Each bugz, each fancy, each complaint, diflike He may enguard his dotage 7 DrEaM @ preter dreamed Dreamt of encounters *twixt thyfelf and me We have been down together in my fleep Unbuckling helms, fifting each other's throat And wak'd half dead with nothing. Shkak. Coriol 3. To think Mibon Dre'aprEesswess. n. /i [from dreadlefs. Fearleflnefs ; iatrepidity ; undauntednefs Zelmane, to whom danger then was a caufe o dreadleffnefs, all the compofition of her element being nothing but fiery, with f{wiftnefs of defir clean.sh data import.tsv out README croffed him Sidney DREAM. #. f. [ droom, Dutch. = Thi - ~word is derived by Meric Ca/aubon, wit Vor/l .Sf)v.w‘;'}' A drear and dying foun Aftrights the flamens at their fervice quaint Milton DrE‘ARIHEAD. 2. /. [from dreary.] Horrour ; difmalnefs: 2 word now no longer in ufe That thortly from the thape of womanhed Such as the was whe. Pallas fhe attempted She grew to hideous thape of drearibead Pined with grief of folly late repented Spinfer DrE"aRIMENT. #. /. [from dreary. 1. Sorrow difmalnefs ;. melancholy 1 teach the woods and waters to lamen Your doleful dreariment Spenfer's Epithalamiuri 2. Horrour dread terrour This wer 1s now obf{olete Almighty Jove, in wrathful mood To wreak the guilt of mortal fins is ben Jurls forth bis thundering dart wit deadl feud Inroll'd in flames and fmouldring drearimere Fairy Quecen DRE'ARY. adj. [oneopg 1. Sorrowful ; diftrefsful Saxon. The meffenger of death,-the ghaftly owl With dreary fhrieks did alfo yell And hungry wolves continually did how At her abhorred face, fo horrid an little they are fons to th' king Burnet's Theory He little drean'd how nigh he was to care TiM treach'rous fortune caught him in the fnare. Dryden 4. To think idly They dream on in a conftant courfe of reading but not digeiting Locke 1 began to dream of nothing lefs than the immortality of my work Smith 5. To be fluggifh ; to idle Why does Anthony drea out his hours And tempts not fortune for a noble day ? Diyden v. a terror In urns and altars round to imagine Nor Cymbeline dreams that they are alive S/ak He never dreamed of the deluge, nor though that firft orb more than a tranfient cruft Zo DrREaM Dread DrEear. adj. [oneopg, Saxon, dreary. Mournful; difmal; forrowful Shak I have nightly finc Camden's Remains 2. It has of before the noun being awake, I do delpife my dream in Barbary, wer The ill-fac'd owl, death's dreadful meffenger The hoarfe night raven, trump of doleful drear o Licaming is the having of ideas, whilft th outward fenfes are ftopped, not fuggefted by an external objeéts, or known occaficn, nor unde the rule or condut of the underftanding Locke 1 dreamed that I was conveyed into a wide an boundlefs plain Tatler Atlas reported to be both namelefs and dreamlefs Shakefp. K. Lear dreamt. [from the noun. 1. To have the reprefentation of fomething in {leep Thefe boyskno 7 /0 [fro 4. A fluggard; an idler DrE aAMLESS. adj. [from dream.] Withou dreams The favages of Moun fear, and flee terrible drean Shakcfpeare's Macheth precipices tread to fome diftant fhore Dryden Glorious dreams ftand ready to reftor The pleafing fhapes of all you faw before. Dryden But The fill night 2. Awful; venerable How dreadful is this place The man of fenfe his meat devours But only fmells the peel and flow'rs And he muft be an idle dreamer Who leaves the pie and gnaws the ftreamer. Prior I have long dreanm'd of fuch a kind of man formidable ‘The rigid interdi€tion which refound Yet dreadful in mine ear tion ; a rewveur bdvvac " We eat our meat i In the affli¢tion of thof That fhake us nightly In dreams they fearfu Or, fhipwreck'd, labou 2. An idle fancy ; groundlefs fufpicion a man loft in wild imagina 1. A phantafm of fleep; the thoughts o DrEear. #./ a fleeping man From this defcen Celeftial virtues rifing, will appea More glorious and more dread than from no fall Milton 3. This {feems to be the meaning of tha controverted phrafe, dread majefty. Som of the old aés of parliament are fai :ew owadny //,s'rac-s. ghgy MB (Ps'gs 3. A mope Anthol. The fummoning archangels to proclai Thy dread tribunal Milton's Paradife Lof Yo D D#RF D R To feein a dream The Macedon, by Jove's decree Was taught to dream an hecb for Prolemy. Dryd At length in fleep their bodies they compofe And dreamt the future fight; and early rofe. Dryd DRrE'AMER. 2 /. [from dream. 1. Who has dreams ; one who has fancie in his fleep T'he vifion faid, and vanifh'd from his fight The dreamer waken'd in a mortal fright. Diyden If our drcamer pleafes to try whether the glowing heat of a glafs furnace be barely a wanderin imagination in a drowfy man's fancy, by puttin his head into it, he may perhaps be wakened int a certainty Locke. 2. An idle fanciful man ; a vifionary Sometime he angers m Gloomy ; difmal ; horrid Obfcure they went through dreary fhades, tha le Along the vaft dominions of the dead Dryder Towns, forefts, herds, and men promifcuou -drown'd With one great death deform the dreary ground Prior 3. This word is fcarcely ufed but in poetical dition DREDGE #./. [To dretch Shakefp in Chaucer is to delay ; perhaps a net fo ofte ftopped may be called from this.] kind of net For oyfiers they have a peculiar dredge; thick, ftrong net, faftened to three fpills of iron and drawn‘at the boat's ftern, gathering whatfoever it meeteth lying in the bottom Carsav 7o DREDGE. @. a. [from the noun. gather with a dredge T The oyfters dredged in the Lyne find a welcom acceptance Careav DrE'DGER. 7. /. [from dredge. fithes with a dredge DrE‘cciNEss #. / [fro One wh dreggy. Ful nefs of dregs or lees ; foulnefs ; muddi nefs; feculence DrE‘cGisu. adj. [from dregs. lees; feculent With telling of the moldwarp and the ant Of dreamer Mierliny and his prophecies 2 fo foul Fairy Queen Foul wit To give a ftrong tafte to this drgeife liquor they fling in an incredible deal of broom or hops 4 whereb |