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