“Again that far, weirdly dreeing cry, from realms immeasurable.”

-People of the Black Circle

The above quote may be the only sue of this term by Howard, from the death moans of a great potentate whose soul is being taken by sorcery as his sister wrestles with the implications of his monstrous fate.

dree

(driː)

vb, drees, dreeing or dreed

1. (tr) to endure

2. dree one's weird to endure one's fate

adj

another word for dreich

[Old English drēogan; related to Old Norse drӯgja to perpetrate]