dreare

dreare (comparative more dreare, superlative most dreare)

1. Obsolete form of drear.

dreare (plural dreares)

1. Obsolete form of drear.
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto II”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     She thankt him deare / Both for that newes he did to her impart, / And for the courteous care which he did beare / Both to her love and to her selfe in that sad dreare.