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Dismal; gloomy with solitude. "A drear and dying sound." Milton.

Affliction; dreariness. [Obs.] Spenser.

Gloomily; dismally.

Dreariness. [Obs.] Spenser.

Sorrow; wretchedness. [Obs.]

Sorrow. [Obs.] Spenser.

Very dreary. Halliwell.

Sorrowful; distressful. [Obs.] " Dreary shrieks." Spenser.

To impress with sudden fear; to frighten; to alarm. Dreams affright our souls. Shak. A drear and dying sound Affrights the flamens at their service quaint. Milton.

To beguile. Sir W. Scott. To cheat winter of its dreariness. W. Irving.

ng population, as the vast sand plains of Asia and Africa are destitute and vegetation. A dreary desert and a gloomy waste. Pope.

to the eye or ear; sorrowful and depressing to the feelings; foreboding; cheerless; dull; dreary; as, a dismal outlook; dismal stories; a dismal place. Full well the busy whisper, circling round, Convey'd the dismal tidings when he frowned. Goldsmith. A dismal description of an English November. Southey.…

dull occupation or period; hence, cloudy; overcast; as, a dull day. Along life's dullest, dreariest walk. Keble.

n epoch of time." F. Harrison. The influence of Chaucer continued to live even during the dreary interval which separates from one another two important epochs of our literary history. A. W. Ward.

That which excites horror or dread, or is horrible; gloom; dreariness. Breathes a browner horror on the woods. Pope. The horrors, delirium tremens. [Colloq.]

The manner in which one looks; appearance; countenance; face. [Obs.] All dreary was his cheer and his looking. Chaucer. Looking for, anticipation; expectation. "A certain fearful looking for of judgment." Heb. x. 27.

A state of affliction; adversity; as, a dreary night of sorrow.

es a cunning snap. L'Estrange. That strange palmer's boding say, That fell so ominous and drear Full on the object of his fear. Sir W. Scott.

High-pointed hill; a rocky pinnacle. [Prov. Eng.] A rolling range of dreary moors, unbroken by tor or tree. C. Kingsley.

Lonely; dreary; unkard. [Prov. Eng.] Weston is sadly unked without you. Cowper.