“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]
There's been a lot of discussion over this word in Howardian circles. From REH's usage (4 or 5 different instances) it would appear he meant to suggest "wailing" or "droning". One thing's for sure: he did not use it with the meaning of "endure" or "enduring" or "abiding".
Pulpster Talbot Mundy, whom Howard admired, seems to have used it in this way as well.