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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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
Haf been dere all der wege more 'an dree months.
From Nevermore by Rolf Bolderwood
Ride on, ride on, Lord William now,25 As fast as ye can dree!
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
"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
After which she dreed her guests with honorable sentiments.
From Four Short Stories By Emile Zola by Émile Zola
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
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
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
"O never, never, Susie Pye, For surely this can never be, Nor ever shall I wed but her That's done and dreed so much for me."
From Ballad Book by Katherine Lee Bates
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
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
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
"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
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