dree

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  1. To suffer; bear; endure: as, to dree penance. [Now only Scotch or poetical.] For what I drye or what I thinke, I wil myselven al it drynke. Chaucer, House of Fame, l.1879. Why dreghis thou this dole, & deris thi seluyn? Destruction of Troy (E. E. T. S.), l. 3586. Ye have the pains o' hell to dree. The Cruel Mother (Child's Ballads, II. 271).
  2. To dree one's or a weird to abide one's fate or destiny; endure an inevitable penalty. [Scots.] I kenn'd he behoved to dree his weird till that day cam. Scott, Guy Mannering, Iv. A poor broken-hearted thing, that, if she hath done evil, has dreed a sore weird for it. Scott, Fair Maid of Perth, I. xii.
  3. To endure; be able to do or continue. Neiʒ wod of his witt he wax neiʒ for drede, & fled as fast homward as fet miʒt drie. William of Palerne (E. E. T. S.), l. 1772. Ride on, ride on, Lord William now, As fast as ye can dree! Lord William (Child's Ballads, III. 19).
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  • If I see the sons and daughters of my friends grown old, I also see the grandchildren spinning the peerie and hunkering at I-dree-I-dree--I-droppit-it--as we did so long ago. —  A Window in Thrums
  • I'll jest put that alarmin' clock o' yourn in your tail-pocket an' set et to ha'f-arter-dree, an' that'll put you in mind when 'tes time to come hom'. —  The Astonishing History of Troy Town
  • In every man's life come awful moments when he must meet his fate--dree his weird--alone. —  Wilfrid Cumbermede
  • Then she asked for pen-case and paper and thereon indited the following couplets Ah would thou knew what I of parting dree * When all my hiddens show for man to see; Passion and longing, pine and lowe o' love * Descend surchargčd on the head of me: God help the days that sped as branches lopt * I spent in Garden of Eternity. —  Arabian nights. English
  • O folk no light affair is Love for lover woe to dree * Nor easy tis to satisfy its sorrow and repine. —  Arabian nights. English
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  1. from Middle English dreen, dreien, dryen, drehen, dregen, dreghen, dreogen, from Anglo-Saxon dreógan, bear, suffer, endure, also do, perform, = Gothic (Moesogothic) driugan, do military service; cf. Icelandic dry¯gja (a secondary form), connect, perpetrate, also lengthen: see dree. Cf. also dright.
  2. English dial., = Scots dreigh, dreich, dreegh, from Middle English dreʒ, dregh, driz, dryz, long, extended, great, from Icelandic drjūgr = Swedish dryg = Danish dröi, long, ample, substantial, solid, heavy; cf. lcel. draugr, a sluggard; drÿgja, commit, also keep longer, lengthen; Swedish dröja, stay, delay, = Danish dröie, make a thing go far, go a long way; ult. connected with Anglo-Saxon dreógan, bear, suffer, endure, do, perform, English dree: see dree.
  3. English dial., = Scots dreigh, from Middle English dreghe, dregh, from dregh, dreʒ, etc., dree: see dree, a.
 

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