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dree one's weird en · VERB
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(Northern-England, Scotland, UK, dialectal) To submit to one's fate.
Her eyes were dry and bright as she replied: ‘I must dree my weird, as we say in the north.’
1925, L. Adams Beck, Glorious Apollo, Dodd, Mead & Co, page 299:Where she waits, there must I go, surrendering all else, forgetting all else, to dree my weird and hers.
1898, G Firth Scott, The Last Lemurian, Ayer, published 1978, page 81:he must dree his weird;
Renounce all blessings for that imprecation,
Steal forth and haunt that builded desolation,
1874, James Thomson, The City of Dreadful Night, section V:
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