ð, [drjúgr; A. S. dreógan = to endure; North. E. and Scot. to dree = to endure, suffer]:—to commit, perpetrate, mostly in a bad sense; d. synd, to commit a sin, K. Á. 202; d. glæp, id.; d. hórdóm, to commit whoredom, Sks. 340; þú skalt ekki hórdóm d., thou shall not commit whoredom; d. misræðu við konu, id., Grág. i. 338; d. hernað, to pirate, ii. 70; d. ílsku, Orkn. 32: it is a standing phrase in eccl. or sacred writers, N. T., Pass., Vidal.: in a good sense only in a few phrases as the allit., d. dáð, Sturl. iii. 7; or in poets or bad old prose; orlög d., A. S. orlig dreogan (cp. the North. E. to dree one’s weird = to abide one’s fate), to try one’s luck, Vkv. i, cp. also the Germ. tales, in die welt gehen; d. hlýðni, Sks. 675; d. mannliga náttúru, to pay the debt of nature, 447; d. e-s vilja, to comply with one’s wishes, Bær. 14,—the last three passages are bad prose.

β. to make to keep longer, to lengthen, Bs. ii. 173, Bb. 3. 30.