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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Why, baint his arms dree goolden horses’ heads, and idden his lady the daughter of Master Richard Phelipson of Montislope, in Nether Wessex, known to us all?”
From McClure's Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 2, July, 1893 by Various
"I wish I had drunk of your water, sister,145 When I did drink your wine; That for a carle's fair daughter, It does gar me dree all this pine."
From English and Scottish Ballads (volume 3 of 8) by Various
"I wish I had drunk your water, sister,185 When that I did drink of your wine; Since for a carle's fair daughter, It aye gars me dree all this pine."
From English and Scottish Ballads (volume 3 of 8) by Various
One word in it only he changed every time he thrust a knight from his saddle shouting delightedly:-- "For so chaste a dame I dree."
From The Childhood of King Erik Menved An Historical Romance by Bernhard Severin Ingemann
"Und dey agreet dat dey might sell you de farm, when dem dree lifes wast up?"
From The Chainbearer Or, The Littlepage Manuscripts by James Fenimore Cooper
And withal she dreed her weird with a lofty courage, faced it full front with a high defiance, which must bespeak for ever the admiration at least of every generous spirit.
From England under the Tudors by Arthur D. (Arthur Donald) Innes
He dreed out his weird most thoroughly, and drank the cup presented to him to the last dregs.
From The First Violin A Novel by Jessie Fothergill
"He dreed his weird," said Mrs. McLane indifferently.
From Sleeping Fires: a Novel by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton
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 Jessie Fothergill
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 Ernest Rhys
They whispered that she might well be dreeing this purgatory of returning to her dispossessed house for another's sake, not her own.
From An Isle in the Water by Katharine Tynan
I sympathize with you for the dole which you are dreeing under the inflictions of your honest proser.
From Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume V (of 10) by J. G. (John Gibson) Lockhart
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 Algernon Charles Swinburne
He was dreeing the weird he had prepared for others.
From Mr. Standfast by John Buchan
Preserve us a'! what shall we do, Thir dark, unhallow'd times; We 're surely dreeing penance now, For some most awfu' crimes.
From The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume II. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century by Charles Rogers
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