dreógan, st. v.: 1) _to lead a life, to be in a certain condition_: pret. dreáh äfter dôme, _lived in honor, honorably_, 2180; pret. pl. fyren-þearfe ongeat, þät hie ær drugon aldorleáse lange hwile, _(God) had seen the great distress, (had seen) that they had lived long without a ruler_ (?), 15.--2) _to experience, to live through, to do, to make, to enjoy_: imp. dreóh symbelwynne, _pass through the pleasure of the meal, to enjoy the meal_, 1783; inf. driht-scype dreógan (_do a heroic deed_), 1471; pret. sundnytte dreáh (_had the occupation of swimming_, i.e. swam through the sea), 2361; pret. pl. hie gewin drugon (_fought_), 799; hî sîð drugon, _made the way, went_, 1967.--3) _to experience, to bear, to suffer_: scealt werhðo dreógan, _shall suffer damnation_, 590; pret. þegn-sorge dreáh, _bore sorrow for his heroes_, 131; nearoþearfe dreáh, 422; pret. pl. inwidsorge þe hie ær drugon, 832; similarly, 1859. â-dreógan, _to suffer, to endure_: inf. wræc âdreógan, 3079. ge-dreógan, _to live through, to enjoy_, pret. part. þät he ... gedrogen häfde eorðan wynne, _that he had now enjoyed the pleasures of earth_ (i.e. that he was at his death), 2727. dreór, st. m., _blood dropping or flowing from wounds_: instr. sg. dreóre, 447.--Comp. heoru-, sâwul-, wäl-dreór. dreór-fâh, adj., _colored with blood, spotted with blood_: nom. sg. 485. dreórig, adj., _bloody, bleeding_: nom. sg. wäter stôd dreórig, 1418; acc. sg. dryhten sînne driórigne fand, 2790.--Comp. heoru-dreórig. ge-dreósan, st. v., _to fall down, to sink_: pres. sg. III. lîc-homa læne gedreóseð, _the body, belonging to death, sinks down_, 1755; inf. þät þu ne âlæte dôm gedreósan, _honor fall, sink_, 2667. drincan, st. v., _to drink_ (with and without the acc.): pres. part. nom. pl. ealo drincende, 1946; pret. blôd êdrum dranc, _drank the blood in streams_(?), 743; pret. pl. druncon wîn weras, _the men drank wine_, 1234; þær guman druncon, _where the men drank_, 1649. The pret. part., when it stands absolutely, has an active sense: nom. pl. druncne dryhtguman, _ye warriors who have drunk, are drinking_, 1232; acc. pl. nealles druncne slôg heorð-geneátas, _slew not his hearth-companions who had drunk with him_, i.e. at the banquet, 2180. With the instr. it means _drunken_: nom. sg. beóre (wîne) druncen, 531, 1468; nom. pl. beóre druncne, 480. drîfan, st. v., _to drive_: pres. pl. þâ þe brentingas ofer flôda genipu feorran drîfað, _who drive their ships thither from afar over the darkness of the sea_, 2809; inf. (w. acc.) þeáh þe he [ne] meahte on mere drîfan hringedstefnan, _although he could not drive the ship on the sea_, 1131. to-drîfan, _to drive apart, to disperse_: pret. ôð þät unc flôd tôdrâf, 545. drohtoð, st. m., _mode of living_ or _acting, calling, employment_: nom. sg. ne wäs his drohtoð þær swylce he ær gemêtte, _there was no employment for him_ (Grendel) _there such as he had found formerly_, 757.