• A variant of Fere, a mate, a companion. • A painful emotion or passion excited by the expectation of evil, or the apprehension of impending danger; apprehension; anxiety; solicitude; alarm; dread. • Apprehension of incurring, or solicitude to avoid, God's wrath; the trembling and awful reverence felt toward the Supreme Belng. • Respectful reverence for men of authority or worth. • That which causes, or which is the object of, apprehension or alarm; source or occasion of terror; danger; dreadfulness. • To feel a painful apprehension of; to be afraid of; to consider or expect with emotion of alarm or solicitude. • To have a reverential awe of; to solicitous to avoid the displeasure of. • To be anxious or solicitous for. • To suspect; to doubt. • To affright; to terrify; to drive away or prevent approach of by fear. • To be in apprehension of evil; to be afraid; to feel anxiety on account of some expected evil.