DREGS
ADJECTIVES
► FECULENT of the nature of dregs; abounding with sediment or impurities → 1471
NOUNS
► ABJECTION dregs, refuse, scum; that which is cast off or away → 1447 obs.
► DARSTS dregs, refuse → Bk1900 Eng. dial.
► FECULENCE dregs, lees, dross, scum → a1648
► GROUND-SOPE dregs, sediment → 1400 obs.
► GROUT sediment; dregs; lees, grounds → 1697
► GRUMMEL mud, dregs, sediment → 1558 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
► HILDING dregs, lees, the sediment of beer: usually plural → B1900 Eng. dial.
► HOVE lees, dregs, sediment of oil, ale, etc. → 1440 obs.
► JIGGS small dregs or sediment, as in a pot of coffee → Bk1896 Eng. dial.
► LAGS dregs, lees; what remains in a vessel after the liquor is drawn off → 1500s obs.
► LAYS dregs, sediment → Bk1902 Eng. dial.
► MURGEON dregs, dirt, refuse → c1450 Eng. dial.
► QUINKINS dregs or leavings of any kind; scum of a liquid → 1825 Sc.
► RABBLEMENT dregs, refuse → 19C Eng. dial.
► SCRUFF dregs, scum → 1929 Amer. dial.
► SILTS dregs, refuse, scum → 1635 obs.
► SUDS dregs, leavings → 1548 obs.
► TAILS dregs, sediments; the inferior, less valuable, or refuse part of anything → 1542
► TAP-LASH dregs or refuse of liquor; the ‘lashings’ or washings of casks or glasses → 1623 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
► TILT dregs, lees; the liquor or sediment obtained by tilting a vessel → a1603 obs.
► TILTINGS the dregs of the liquor in a cask, collected by tilting it → 1612 obs.
► ULLAGE the dregs in the bottom of wine glasses or casks → L19 sl.
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