Vocabulary : Dreadless to Dreamily

Dreadless : Free from dread; fearless; intrepid; dauntless; as, dreadless heart. ;; Exempt from danger which causes dread; secure. ;; Without doubt.
Dreadlessness : Freedom from dread.
Dreadly : Dreadful. ;; With dread.
Dreadnaught : A fearless person. ;; Hence: A garment made of very thick cloth, that can defend against storm and cold; also, the cloth itself; fearnaught.
Dreadnought : A British battleship, completed in 1906 -- 1907, having an armament consisting of ten 12-inch guns, and of twenty-four 12-pound quick-fire guns for protection against torpedo boats. This was the first battleship of the type characterized by a main armament of big guns all of the same caliber. She has a displacement of 17,900 tons at load draft, and a speed of 21 knots per hour. ;; Any battleship having its main armament entirely of big guns all of one caliber. Since the Dreadnought was built, the caliber of the heaviest guns has increased from 12 in. to 13/ in., 14 in., and 15 in., and the displacement of the largest batteships from 18,000 tons to 30,000 tons and upwards. The term superdreadnought is popularly applied to battleships with such increased displacement and gun caliber.

Dream : The thoughts, or series of thoughts, or imaginary transactions, which occupy the mind during sleep; a sleeping vision. ;; A visionary scheme; a wild conceit; an idle fancy; a vagary; a revery; -- in this sense, applied to an imaginary or anticipated state of happiness; as, a dream of bliss; the dream of his youth. ;; To have ideas or images in the mind while in the state of sleep; to experience sleeping visions; -- often with of; as, to dream of a battle, or of an absent friend. ;; To let the mind run on in idle revery or vagary; to anticipate vaguely as a coming and happy reality; to have a visionary notion or idea; to imagine. ;; To have a dream of; to see, or have a vision of, in sleep, or in idle fancy; -- often followed by an objective clause.
Dreamed : of Dream
Dreamer : One who dreams. ;; A visionary; one lost in wild imaginations or vain schemes of some anticipated good; as, a political dreamer.
Dreamful : Full of dreams.
Dreamily : As if in a dream; softly; slowly; languidly.

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