dree one's weird

Verb

dree one's weird (third-person singular simple present drees one's weird, present participle dreeing one's weird, simple past and past participle dreed one's weird)

1. (Northern England, Scotland, UK, dialectal) To submit to one's fate.
   • 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