Alexander Dyce, A General Glossary to Shakespeare's Works

fear to terrify, to frighten: “to fear the birds of prey,” MEASURE FOR MEASURE, ii. 1. 2 ; “fear boys with bugs,” THE TAMING OF THE SHREW, i. 2. 207 ; “The people fear me,” 2 HENRY IV., iv. 4. 121 ; “go fear thy king withal,” 3 HENRY VI., iii. 3. 226 ; “to fear, not to delight,” OTHELLO, i. 2. 71 ; “Thou canst not fear us, Pompey, with thy sails,” ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA, ii. 6. 24 ; “because he would not fear him,” VENUS AND ADONIS, 1094 ; “Hath fear'd the valiant,” THE MERCHANT OF VENICE, ii. 1. 9 ; “more fear'd than harm'd,” HENRY V., i. 2. 155 ; “a bug that fear'd us all,” 3 HENRY VI., v. 2. 2 ; “something fears me to think of,” KING LEAR, iii. 5. 3 ; “only this fears me,” THE TWO NOBLE KINSMEN, iii. 6. 130.