Definition of dreg

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Dreg (n.) Corrupt or defiling matter contained in a liquid, or precipitated from it; refuse; feculence; lees; grounds; sediment; hence, the vilest and most worthless part of anything; as, the dregs of society..

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Dross :: Dross (n.) Waste matter; any worthless matter separated from the better part; leavings; dregs; refuse.
Dreggy :: Dreggy (a.) Containing dregs or lees; muddy; foul; feculent.
Pedregal :: Pedregal (n.) A lava field.
Roil :: Roil (v.) To render turbid by stirring up the dregs or sediment of; as, to roil wine, cider, etc. , in casks or bottles; to roil a spring..
Settlement :: Settlement (n.) Matter that subsides; settlings; sediment; lees; dregs.
Settle :: Settle (v. i.) To sink to the bottom; to fall to the bottom, as dregs of a liquid, or the sediment of a reserveir..
Ground :: Ground (n.) Sediment at the bottom of liquors or liquids; dregs; lees; feces; as, coffee grounds..
Sediment :: Sediment (n.) The matter which subsides to the bottom, frrom water or any other liquid; settlings; lees; dregs..
Retriment :: Retriment (n.) Refuse; dregs.
Settling :: Settling (n.) That which settles at the bottom of a liquid; lees; dregs; sediment.
Defecate :: Defecate (v. t.) To clear from impurities, as lees, dregs, etc.; to clarify; to purify; to refine..
Lee :: Lee (n.) That which settles at the bottom, as of a cask of liquor (esp. wine); sediment; dregs; -- used now only in the plural..
Dregginess :: Dregginess (n.) Fullness of dregs or lees; foulness; feculence.
Taplash :: Taplash (n.) Bad small beer; also, the refuse or dregs of liquor..
Sordes :: Sordes (n.) Foul matter; excretion; dregs; filthy, useless, or rejected matter of any kind; specifically (Med.), the foul matter that collects on the teeth and tongue in low fevers and other conditions attended with great vital depression..
Dreg :: Dreg (n.) Corrupt or defiling matter contained in a liquid, or precipitated from it; refuse; feculence; lees; grounds; sediment; hence, the vilest and most worthless part of anything; as, the dregs of society..
Bottom :: Bottom (n.) Dregs or grounds; lees; sediment.
Draff :: Draff (n.) Refuse; lees; dregs; the wash given to swine or cows; hogwash; waste matter.
Squeezing :: Squeezing (n.) That which is forced out by pressure; dregs.
Fecal :: Fecal (a.) relating to, or containing, dregs, feces, or ordeure; faecal..
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