Fear

1. n. That which causes, or which is the object of, apprehension or alarm; source or occasion of terror; danger; dreadfulness.
2. n. A variant of Fere, a mate, a companion.
3. n. A painful emotion or passion excited by the expectation of evil, or the apprehension of impending danger; apprehension; anxiety; solicitude; alarm; dread.
4. n. Apprehension of incurring, or solicitude to avoid, God’s wrath; the trembling and awful reverence felt toward the Supreme Belng.
5. n. Respectful reverence for men of authority or worth.
6. n. To affright; to terrify; to drive away or prevent approach of by fear.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.