a. [ See Dreary. ] Dismal; gloomy with solitude. “A drear and dying sound.” Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. Sadness; dismalness. [ Obs. ] Spenser.
adv. Gloomily; dismally. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. Dreariness. [ Obs. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]
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n. Sorrow. [ Obs. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Very dreary. Halliwell. [ 1913 Webster ]
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Full many a dreary anxious hour. Keble. [ 1913 Webster ]
Johnson entered on his vocation in the most dreary part of that dreary interval which separated two ages of prosperity. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]