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† dreigh, dreich Obs.
Also 4 dreh, drehi, dreih, drei, drey, 4–5 dreghe, dreȝ(e, driȝe.
[? f. dreȝe, dregh, earlier form of dree a.]
1. Long duration of space or time; length, distance, extent.
a1400Morte Arth. 2916 And thus they drevene to þe dede dukes and erles, Alle þe dreghe of þe daye. c1400Destr. Troy 678 When the dregh was don of þe derke night. a1400–50Alexander 4788, viij daies be-dene þe driȝe was, and mare, Or he miȝt couire to þe copp fra þe caue vndire.
2. phr. a- dreigh, on- dreigh, (o-) dregh: at or to a distance, afar off; = a-drigh, q.v.
a1300Cursor M. 21859 (Cott.) Bi takens ferr on drei Men wat it es command nei. c1470Henry Wallace v. 1079 Folow on dreich, giff that we mystir ocht. 1533Bellenden Livy iii. (1822) 213 Throw ane signe that Quincius maid on dreich, the Romanis ischit fra thair tentis. 1715Ramsay Christ's Kirk ii. vi, He stood nae lang a-dreigh.
3. Tediousness, annoyance. rare.
a1400–50Alexander 5578 All þe dreȝe of þa deuels þai drenchid or þai past. |