Definition of "dreed" []

• Simple past tense and past participle of dree. (verb)

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• "One is therefore, from more than one point of view, left with a sort of Fakir self-mortification, undertaken and "dreed" neither to atone for anything, nor to propitiate any Power, nor really to benefit any man."
• ""May the gude God o 'heaven sain you," he said "and ferd you for aye, for the braw deed ye hae dreed the day; tak 'this wee ring, gudemon, and tak' ye this ane, gudewife, and when ye look on this and on that, I rede ye render up are prayer to him abune for the weal o 'Charles Edward, your unfortunate prince.""
• "And withal she dreed her weird with a lofty courage, faced it full front with a high defiance, which must bespeak for ever the admiration at least of every generous spirit."