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Fearnaught

Fearnaught \Fear"naught`\ (f[=e]r"n[add]t`), n.

  1. A fearless person.

  2. A stout woolen cloth of great thickness; dreadnaught; also, a warm garment.

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fearnaught

n. 1 A fearless person. 2 A stout woolen cloth of great thickness; dreadnaught 3 (context by extension English) A warm garment, especially one made of this cloth.

Usage examples of "fearnaught".

But she won mahhy me say she twell I steel one thousum dollah fum Doctah Revend Fearnaught an huh an me we tek it on de heel an toe 2 Calyforny or sum fool plaice whah dey caint ketch us.

But it said you keep it with a man you do odd jobs for, the the Reverend Calixtus Fearnaught, President of the Baptist College of Theology of this town.

And Doctor Fearnaught, last seen by Clark early this morning on Cabot Street, Number 221, holding up a reflector-lantern, stood there.

Doctor Callixtus Fearnaught had reflected a variety of turbulent emotions.

Doctor Callixtus Fearnaught was passing a hand helplessly over his face.

Doctor Fearnaught, too, remained silent, but morosely so, lugubriously so, despondently so.

I am, after all, the Reverend Doctor Callixtus Fearnaught, Head of the Baptist School of Theology.

Anyway, under the circumstances there is nothing any man in my position my tremendous obligation to Doctor Fearnaught here especially nothing I could do but to tell you I want to save you from the writ.

Doctor Fearnaught, watching all this thunderstruck from where he sat, suddenly stood up.

Here was himself in absurd green-striped nightshirt here was Miranda in white lace-trimmed nightgown once belonging to a daughter of Doctor Fearnaught here was utter engulfing blackness where people could speak from their hearts.