What does "drear" mean?
Drear: Dismal; gloomy with solitude. "A drear and dying sound." Milton.
Additional senses
- 2.Sadness; dismalness. [Obs.] Spenser.
Sources
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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