dree
Americanadjective
verb (used with object)
verb
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(tr) to endure
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to endure one's fate
adjective
Etymology
Origin of dree
before 1000; Middle English; Old English drēogan to endure; cognate with Gothic driugan to serve (in arms)
Example Sentences
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There the brand Excalibur goes flashing through the last dim fight Wielded by the stainless king who fighting falls his wierd to dree.
From Cornish Catches and Other Verses by Moore, Bernard
"Nae clamorous grief we ever thole, Nae wastin' pine we dree; An endless life's afore thee placed O' constant luve an' lee."
From Legends of the North; The Guidman O' Inglismill and The Fairy Bride by Buchan, Patrick
One thing of George Ridler I must commend, And that wur vur a notable theng; He meud his braags avoore he died, Wi' ony dree brothers his zons should zeng.
"If this be for bonny Jeany Gordon, This pennance I'll take wi';50 If this be bonny Jeany Gordon, All this I will dree."
From English and Scottish Ballads, Volume IV by Various
"O God forbid," said Livingston, "That e'er I dree the shame; My lady slain in plain fields, And I coward knight at hame!"
From English and Scottish Ballads (volume 3 of 8) by Various
No more shalt thou, for no need, Number of thy body the seed That thou shalt have withouten dreed, Thou art to me so dear.
From "Everyman," with other interludes, including eight miracle plays by Rhys, Ernest
The bysshop thanne with dreed and reverence Conveyed hym forth with processioun, Till he was passid the subarbis off the toun.
From Old St. Paul's Cathedral by Benham, William
No more a witch than I am a warlock," said the honest smith: "a poor, broken hearted thing, that, if she hath done evil, has dreed a sore weird for it.
From The Fair Maid of Perth Or, St. Valentine's Day by Scott, Walter, Sir
He is a different man from the outcast who stepped forth into the night with a weird upon him, nor ever looked back till it was dreed out in darkness to its utmost term.
From The First Violin A Novel by Fothergill, Jessie
"He dreed his weird," said Mrs. McLane indifferently.
From Sleeping Fires: a Novel by Atherton, Gertrude Franklin Horn
Scathe and shame, and a waefu' name, And a weary time and strange, Have they that seeing a weird for dreeing Can die, and cannot change.
From Lyra Heroica A Book of Verse for Boys by Various
Ever since this morning people have been dreeing me with Nana.
From Four Short Stories By Emile Zola by Zola, Émile
Scathe, and shame, and a waefu' name, And a weary time and strange, Have they that seeing a weird for dreeing Can die, and cannot change.
From Poems and Ballads (Third Series) Taken from The Collected Poetical Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne—Vol. III by Swinburne, Algernon Charles
"Blitherin' their drool" is about the same as "dreeing their weird."
From The Book of Humorous Verse by Wells, Carolyn
"It's my gudemither, my lord," said Margaret; "but she canna see onybody e'enow—Ohon! we're dreeing a sair weird—we hae had a heavy dispensation!"
From The Antiquary — Volume 02 by Scott, Walter, Sir
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