10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DREE ONE'S WEIRD»
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Scottish Dictionary and Supplement: In Four Volumes. A-Kut
To dree one's weird, to do penance, S. " Dree out the inch, as you have done the
span ;" Prov. Kelly, p. 84. " According to the popular belief, he [Thomas the
Rhymer] still drees his weird in Fairy Land, and is one day expected to revisit
earth.
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An etymological dictionary of the Scottish language: ...
To dree one's weird, to do penance, S. Dree, out the inch, as you have done the
span ;" Prov. Kelly, p. 84. " According to the popular belief, he [Thomas the
Rhymer] still drees his weird in Fairy Land, and is one day expected to revisit
earth.
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tale it is! m&zmmmm^&iktm \ > welcome hero's welcome JH HERO to extend a ...
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selections from swinburne
THE BRIDE'S TRAGEDY 12. My weird is ill to dree: to 'dree one's weird' is to
submit to one's lot. 'Weird' is here a noun, from the A.-S. weorthan, to be, and the
adjective, 'weird,' originally meaning 'connected with, or influencing, fate' has lost
its ...
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An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language: ...
To dree one's weird, to do penance, S. Dree, out the inch, as you have done the
span ;” Prov. Kelly, p. 84. “ According to the popular belief, he [Thomas the
Rhymer] still drees his weird in Fairy Land, and is one day expected to revisit
earth.
“You know, I remember a phrase Angus MacLir used, a Scottish expression, to
dree one's weird. He said it meant to endure one's fate, suffer one's destiny.” “Oh
God!” Cora cried. “Angus MacLir. How I loved him. And he did suffer his fate, with
...
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Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z ...
—Dree one's weird (see Dree).—The weird Sisters, the Fates. [A.S. wyrd, fate—
weorthan, tobecome; Ger. werden.] Weism, wē′izm,n. inordinate use
ofthepronounwe. Weismannism, vīs′manizm, n. the doctrineinbiology of August
Weismann ...
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The Chambers Dictionary
dree one's weird see dree; the Weird Sisters the Fates; applied by some also to
the Morns, the Fates of Scandinavian mythology; the witches in Shakespeare's
Macbeth. [OE wyrd fate; related to wear than to become; Ger werden] weise.
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The Origins of English Words: A Discursive Dictionary of ...
JWalker lists 28 such ward words, and 8 wards, as backwards. weird: first, the
way fate turns, as in the expression to dree one's weird: to endure one's fate-
used by Langland, Gower, and Chaucer; then mainly in Scotland, until Sir Walter
Scott, ...
Joseph Twadell Shipley, 2009
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Origins: A Short Etymological Dictionary of Modern English
Certainly from OE drc'ogan comes 'to dree', as in dree one's weird, to endure
one's ill fortune (ME wirde, OE wyrd, akin to OE weorthan, to become). drug,
druggist. See DRY, para 3. drugget. See DRY, para 4. druid—whence druidess
and ...
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Weird was a noun in Old English (“fate, destiny”), as still seen in the archaic phrase to dree one's weird “to suffer one's fate.” It was a common ... «OUPblog, Aug 10»
