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[A. S. dreám - leás = joyle , sad.] Free from or without dreams. "The dreamle sleep that lulls the dead." Byron: Euthanasia. sadne . "Bowe doun to the pore thin ere without dreryne e." -Wycliffe : Eccles . iv. 8. *drear-ing, s . [DREAR, a.] Sorrow, drearine . "And lightly him uprearing, Revoked life, that would have fled away. All were myself, through grief, in deadly drearing." Spenser: Daphnaída , 187-189. drëar-, *dreor-i, *drer-i, *drer-y, *dreer-y, *drur-y, a . [A. S. dreórig =(1) bloody, gory, (2) sad, mournful, from dreor = gore, blood; Icel. dreyrigr=gory; Ger. traurig =(1) gory, (2) sad; O. H. Ger. tror =gore.] 1. Dismal, gloomy, cheerle , horrid. "They had never portioned out among themselves his dreary region of moor and shingle." -Macaulay: Hist. Eng . ch. xiii. 2. Cheerle , disquieting. "Worlds should not bribe me back to tread Again life's dreary waste, To see again my day o'erspread With all the gloomy past." Cowper: Bill of Mortality , 1789. 3. Sad, mournful, distre ful. "The woman goth hir wey sorwful and drery."-Tr visa, iii. 161. 4. Expre ive of distre , sorrow, or mourning. "Drery was thy mone."- Shoreham , p. 89. 5. Tiresome, monotonous, uninteresting. "Presenting dreary addre es to the governor."-Gorst: The Maori King (1864), ch. xix. drëar-ý-some, a. [English dreary; some.] Having the characters, or suggesting the idea of drearine . "Yet in spite of my counsel, if they will needs run The dreary some risk of the spinning o't, Let them seek out a lythe in the heat of the sun, And there venture o' the beginning o't." Ro : Rock and Wee Pickle Tow . *drec-che, *drec-chen, *dreche, *dretche, v . t. dream-le -lý, adv . [Eng. dreamle ; -ly .] In . [A. S. dreccan , dreccean to vex, to trouble.] a dreamle manner. dreamt, pret. & pa. par. [DREAM, 1.] dream-ỹ, a. [Eng. dream; y.] 1. Full of or causing dreams. "All day within the dreamy house The doors upon their hinges creaked." 2. Dreamlike, visionary. Tennyson: Mariana , 61, 62. "From dreamy virtues of this kind he turned with something like distaste."- Talfourd . 3. Addicted to or fond of dreaming or reveries; visionary. A. Trans.: To trouble, to annoy, to vex, to disturb. What ys thy cause, thou cursed wreche, Thus at ma e me for to drecche ?" Polit., Relig , and Love Poems , p. 85. B. In trans.: To linger, to loiter, to delay. "What shold I dretche or telle of his array?" Chaucer: Troilus, ii. 1,264. *drec-ching, drecchung, *drec - chyng, *drec-chynge, *dretch-ing, pr . par ., a. & 8. [DRECCHE, υ.] A. & B. As pr. par. & particip. adj.: (See the verb.) bôil, boy; pout, jowl; cat, çell, chorus, chin, bench; go, gem; thin, this; C. As substantive: 1. Troubling, annoyance, disturbance. "With drecchinge of min owne thought In such a wanhope I am falle."- Gower , ii. 118. 2. Delaying, lingering, loitering. "Peril is with drecchynge in ydrawe." Chaucer: Troilus , iii. 803. *drec-che, s. [DRECCHE, v.] A sad or sorrowful sight or thing. "Ye shall se a wondur dreche." MS. in Hall i well , p. 317. *drec'-en, v. t . [Etym. doubtful.] To threaten. (According to Pether am, this word is very common in the north of England.) "The queene drecened by her churchmen." M. Marprelate's Epitome (ed. Pether am), p. 35. ( Nares .) *drec-chour, *drechour, s. [English drecch (e); -our=er.] A lingerer. "An ald monk a lechour, A drunk in drechour." Colkelbie Sow, F. i., v. 74. drědge (1),*drůdge, s . [O. Fr. drege =a kind of fish-net, from Dut. dreg- net =a drag-net, dragen =to bear, to carry, to draw; A. S. drag an . ( Skeat .)] [DRAG-NET, DRAW.] 1. A kind of drag-net for bringing up oysters, ., from the bottom. "For oysters they have a peculiar dredge ; a thick, strong net, fastened to three spills of iron, and drawn at the boat's stern, gathering whatsoever it meeteth lying in the bottom."- Carew . 2. An apparatus for bringing up plants, shells, ., from the bottom, or from great depths, for scientific purposes. 3. A bucket or scoop for scraping mud, sand, or silt from the bed of a stream, pond, or other body of water. Such are usually on endle chains. [DREDGING-MACHINE.]