adj o,ā, later also dremain. furious, frantic, precipitate: dreman (.i. debaid) .i. obann, O'Dav. 596 . dreaman .i. dasachtach, Stowe Gl. 110 . dreamhan .i. dásachd, mire no míchiall, O'Cl.

Of persons and animals: duine d.¤ discailteach (of Cain), SR 1912 . la Demun ṅd.¤ , 8352 . for dá n-echaib dremna dasachtacha, TBC-I¹ 1973 . echlach dreman dasachtach, YBL 177a10 . dreman cech drochláech, Tec. Corm. § 15.11 . draic dremain, LL 213b21 . loch Munremuir dremuin, 7a6 . la tuatha De dremuin dúairc, Metr. Dinds. iv 96.47 . fir dremain nis baigdis, BB 397a37 . trede d.¤ is mo col | domun demun ┐ ben, 176 marg. inf. ( CF 85.15 ). Of actions, things, etc.: do grethaib dremnaib demna, SR 7620 . cath Tuamma Drecon dreman, LL 2188 . ág arm nd.¤ , Metr. Dinds. iii 166 . gai dreman, MR 136.15 . deilm d.¤ , IT i 68 § 2 . gním dremuin (dremun , Eg.), 70.9 . teiched d.¤ deinmnetach, LL 226a39 . matain dreman a fierce battle, RC xxiv 48 § 6 . dreman inathor dímar | nodusnigh an Mórríoghan `horrible are the huge entrails which the M. washes' (?), Fianaig. 16.10 . dremhan an caisgen tibhes, 12 . duan ndremain `vigorous poem' ( rhapsody?), Auraic. 2191 . Adv. facsat an indsi sin co dian d.¤ denmnitach, RC ix 472 . atreachtatar . . . co dremon ┐ co déinmnetach, TTr.² 1871 . saltrad for toil co dreman, ACL iii 311 = co treamhan, AFM ii 618.10 (poem). ac slaide int shlúaig co d.¤ , CRR § 47 . Compar. cá buinne dearg badh dreimne, 3 C 12, 8.17 . ? As subst. mada indremain (i nd.¤?) re mac B. `in hostility ', CS 122.19 .

As n.pr. m.: Glas mac Dreamhain, CF 26 .

Compd. ar dreman-denmnetne wild haste , TBC-LL¹ 5627 (St.).