Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Dreariness; dismalness; gloominess.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete Affliction; dreariness.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete
sadness ;dreariness
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Examples
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Their mickle honors lay there low in death; the courtiers all had grief and drearihead.
The Nibelungenlied 2007
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Their mickle honors lay there low in death; the courtiers all had grief and drearihead.
The Nibelungenlied Daniel Bussier Shumway
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Make moan of all that I endure for dole and drearihead And of my sleepless eyes, oppressed of wakefulness alway?
The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume III Anonymous 1879
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They lie in the earth, and my body is wasted for drearihead.
The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume II Anonymous 1879
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Whereby I wot well that my drearihead is concerning a woman.
The Well at the World's End: a tale William Morris 1865
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Across the waste floated now and then the cry of a bird, but other sound there was none in this land of drearihead.
Alec Forbes of Howglen George MacDonald 1864
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Amazed I'm grown and dazed for drearihead * And blame I Time who brought such pine and pain.
Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855
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And my neck-nape complains of the weight of love, * Of my pain, of my pine, of my drearihead. "
Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855
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