dreadour Sc.
(ˈdrɛdə(r))
Also 5–6 dreddour, 6 dred-, draid-, dreidour, 8–9 dridder, dreder, drither.
[f. dread with F. suffix, after such words as dolour, terror.]
Fear, dread.
| 1536 Bellenden Cron. Scot. (1821) I. 114 He fled with gret dredour to his tentis. 1553 Douglas' æneis ix. xii. 67 With dredfull dredour [MS. raddour] trymbling for effray. 1570 Henry's Wallace x. 94 Quhen thai him saw, all dreddour [MS. raddour] thai forsuk. 1609 Skene Reg. Maj. 83 Be reason of feare and dreadour. 1834 Hogg Mora Campbell 492 He..saw with dreadour and with doubt, A flame enkindling him about. |