dree one's weird

present singular third person drees one's weird · participle present dreeing one's weird · participle past dreed one's weird · past dreed one's weird

1. Northern EnglandScotlandUKdialectalTo 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

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   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

   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