dree noun.
[dri:] Chiefly
arch. literary.
LME.[from the verb.]Suffering, grief, trouble.
► In isolated use before
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dree verb.
[dri:] Long
Scot. &
north. exc.
arch. literary. Also
drie. Pa. t. & pple
dreed.
[Old English drēogan from Germanic base repr. also by Gothic driugan do military service, Old Norse drgja perpetrate, practise.]1. verb trans.a. Perform (service); do (a person's will); commit (sin).
OE-ME.b. Do, perform, (penance).
ME.2. verb trans. Endure, undergo, (something burdensome, painful, etc.).
OE.dree one's weird submit to one's fate.
■ E. Gaskell To dree all the cruel slander they'll put upon him.3. verb intrans. Endure, continue, last.
ME.4. verb trans. Pass, spend, (time, one's life). Also foll. by
forth,
out.
ME.► As an archaism, following use by Sir Walter Scott.
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