dree

American  

[dree] / dri /

Also dreegh

adjective

1. tedious; dreary.

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verb (used with object)

dreed, dreeing

1. to suffer; endure.

dree British  

/ driː /

verb

1. (tr) to endure

2. to endure one's fate

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adjective

1. another word for dreich

Etymology

Origin of dree

before 1000; Middle English; Old English drēogan to endure; cognate with Gothic driugan to serve (in arms)

Example Sentences

Let evil-doers dree the shame o' their deeds.

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 21 by Leighton, Alexander

He cried out; ‘Bast dree o’clock and Cornvallis ist daken.’

From Ethel Morton at Sweetbriar Lodge by Smith, Mabell S. C. (Mabell Shippie Clarke)

"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

I minds when thaay wur made of dree sarts of wood, a main bit more crooked than this yer stick, and sart o’ carved a bit; doant ’ee see?

From Greene Ferne Farm by Jefferies, Richard

Life is hard enough on women without adding the penalty of great riches to the weird they have to dree.

From A Word to Women by Humphry, Mrs. C. E.