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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The protector of the fairy ring was proportionally recompensed— "He wha gaes by the fairy ring Nae dule or pains sall dree, And he wha cleans the fairy ring An easy death sall dee."
From Legends of the North; The Guidman O' Inglismill and The Fairy Bride by Patrick Buchan
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
"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
His face quivered before these blows, but all he said was, “I must dree my dreed.”
From The Little Minister by J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie
Alas, my poor John! are you really doomed to dree the weird assigned your forebears.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 10 by Various
Thence Beowulf came forth By his own craft forsooth, dreed the work of the swimming; 2360 He had on his arm, he all alone, thirty Of war-gears, when he to the holm went adown.
From The Tale of Beowulf Sometime King of the Folk of the Weder Geats by Anonymous
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
Sunshine has given place to gloom; and he himself stands alone,— "Stoynde and amazde at his own shade for dreed, And fearing greater daungers than was nede."
From Faith and Unfaith by Duchess
"He dreed his weird," said Mrs. McLane indifferently.
From Sleeping Fires: a Novel by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton
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 Sir Walter Scott
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
"Blitherin' their drool" is about the same as "dreeing their weird."
From The Book of Humorous Verse by Carolyn Wells
"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 Sir Walter Scott
Ever since this morning people have been dreeing me with Nana.
From Four Short Stories By Emile Zola by Émile Zola
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
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