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)
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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 Bernard Moore
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 Mrs. C. E. Humphry
What new unkindly kind of human pain Had Love not only doled for me to dree But eke on me was wholly execute?
From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. VIII by Various
O meikle dolour sall ye dree, And aye the salt seas o'er ye'se swim; And far mair dolour sall ye dree On Estmere crags, when ye them climb.
From English and Scottish Ballads, Volume I (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 Richard Jefferies
Well, well; fortune is not so blind as people say; you dreed a good long weird; but you have got into a fine green paddock now to kick your heels in.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 24 (of 25) by Robert Louis Stevenson
Nor sall it ever be mine,That belted knights shoud eer remainWhere ladies dreed their pine.
From A Collection of Ballads by Andrew Lang
And with an other thought hir herte quaketh; Than slepeth hope, and after dreed awaketh; 810 Now hoot, now cold; but thus, bi-twixen tweye, She rist hir up, and went hir for to pleye.
From Troilus and Criseyde by Geoffrey Chaucer
And like brute beasts doo lie in loathsome den 531 Of ghostly darkenes and of gastlie dreed: For whom I mourne, and for my selfe complaine, And for my sisters eake whom they disdaine.
From The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser, Volume 5 by Edmund Spenser
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 William Benham
"Blitherin' their drool" is about the same as "dreeing their weird."
From The Book of Humorous Verse by Carolyn Wells
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 Émile Zola
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
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
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