Definition of Dregs

1. Noun. Sediment that has settled at the bottom of a liquid.

Exact synonyms: Settlings
Language type: Plural, Plural Form
Specialized synonyms: Grounds
Generic synonyms: Deposit, Sediment
Derivative terms: Settle, Settle

Definition of Dregs

1. Noun. (''collectively'') The sediment settled at the bottom of a liquid; the lees in a container of unfiltered wine. ¹

2. Noun. (figuratively the dregs) The worst and lowest part of something. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Dregs

1. dreg [n] - See also: dreg

Lexicographical Neighbors of Dregs

dredlocks
dreds
dree
dree one's weird
dreed
dreeing
dreely
dreep
drees
dreg
dreggier
dreggiest
dregginess
dreggish
dreggy
dregs (current term)
dreich
dreicher
dreichest
dreidel
dreidels
dreidl
dreidls
dreigh
dreikanter
drein
dreined
dreining
dreins
dreissena

Literary usage of Dregs

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Dictionary of English Etymology by Hensleigh Wedgwood (1872)
"The change of the final labial for a guttural gives rise to a series of forms that cannot be separated from the foregoing. ON. dregg, E. dregs, ..."

2. A Library of American Literature from the Earliest Settlement to the Present by Arthur Stedman, Edmund Clarence Stedman (1894)
"THE BITTEREST dregs. [Life and Times of Frederick Douglass, written by Himself. 1882.] IF at any one time in my life, more than another, I was made to drink ..."

3. The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History, Politics, and Literature for by Edmund Burke, Benjamin Franklin Collection (Library of Congress), John Davis Batchelder Collection (Library of Congress) (1822)
"Return the dregs of the preceding process into the pan, fill it up with water, and again boil it as before for four or five hours : then strain off the ..."

4. English Synonyms Explained, in Alphabetical Order: With Copious by George Crabb (1818)
"dregs, from the German dreck dirt, signifies the dirty part which separates ... All these terms designate the worthless part of any body; but dregs is taken ..."

5. English Synonymes, with Copious Illustrations and Explanations, Drawn from by George Crabb (1854)
"All these terms designate the worthless part of any body ; but dregs is taken in a worse sense than sediment : for the dregs are that which is altogether of ..."

6. Dictionary of Obsolete and Provincial English: Containing Words from the by Thomas Wright (1904)
"A sop by which the dregs may be soaked up. GROUND-SWEAT, ». A person some time buried is said to have taken a ground-sweat. ..."

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