Definition of "feard"

We was feard for a long time that you was dead, but you're oal right now.

1897, Joseph Hocking, The Birthright‎

His horned forehead doth make faynt heartes feard.

1874, Alexander Barclay, The Ship of Fools, Volume 1‎

Opinion, that great foole, makes fooles of all, And (once) I feard her till I met a minde Whose grave instructions philosophical), Toss'd it [is, F] like dust upon a march strong winde, He shall for ever my example be, And his embraced doctrine grow in me.

1609, Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher, The Faithful Shepherdess‎

XXXVIII The second was as Almner of the place, His office was, the hungry for to feed, 335 And thristy give to drinke, a worke of grace: He feard not once him selfe to be in need, Ne car'd to hoord for those whom he did breede: The grace of God he layd up still in store, Which as a stocke he left unto his seede; 340 He had enough, what need him care for more?

1590, Edmund Spenser, Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I‎, published 1921