dree

verb

1. (Northern-England, Scotland, transitive)To bear or endure (something); to put up with, to suffer, to undergo.

   “Peace to the souls of the graveless dead! / 'Twas an awful doom to dree; / But fearful and wondrous are thy works, / O God! in the boundless sea!”

   “And redoubled pine for its dwellers I dree.”

2. (Northern-England, Scotland, intransitive)To endure; to brook; also, to be able to do or continue.

noun

1. (Northern-England, Northumbria, Scotland, archaic)Grief; suffering; trouble.

   “Life is blood, shed and offered. / The eagle’s eye can face this dree. / To beasts of chase the lie is proffered: / Timor Mortis Conturbat Me.”

adv

1. (Northern-England, Scotland)Of the doing of a task: with concentration; laboriously.
2. (Northern-England, Scotland)Chiefly of the falling of rain: without pause or stop; continuously, incessantly.
3. (Northern-England, Scotland)Slowly, tediously.

adj

1. (Northern-England, Scotland, alt-of, alternative)Alternative form of dreich.

   “To be sure, t' winter's been a dree season, and thou'rt, maybe, in the right on't to make a late start.”

   “But he's lying i' such dree poverty,—and niver a friend to go near him,—niver a person to speak a kind word t' him.”

   “So, after two hours' running downhill, we came out in the level valley at Glashütte. It was raining now, a thick dree rain.”