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Having the lower ends of garments defiled by trailing in mire or filth; draggle-tailed.

To make foul or impure; to make filthy; to dirty; to befoul; to pollute. They that touch pitch will be defiled. Shak.

tiness; uncleanness. Defilements of the flesh. Hopkins. The chaste can not rake into such filth without danger of defilement. Addison.

One holding high rank; a dignitary. These filthy dreamers . . . speak evil of dignities. Jude. 8.

Any foul of filthy substance, as excrement, mud, dust, etc.; whatever, adhering to anything, renders it foul or unclean; earth; as, a wagonload of dirt. Whose waters cast up mire and dirt. Is. lvii. 20.

In a dirty manner; foully; nastily; filthily; meanly; sordidly.

The state of being dirty; filthiness; foulness; nastiness; baseness; sordidness.

Defiled with dirt; foul; nasty; filthy; not clean or pure; serving to defile; as, dirty hands; dirty water; a dirty white. Spenser.

is worthy to be disdained or regarded with contempt and aversion. [Obs.] Most loathsome, filthy, foul, and full of vile disdain. Spenser.

Filthy; worthless. [Obs.] "Drasty ryming." Chaucer.

Turbid; muddy; filthy. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Full of dung; filthy; vile; low. Shak.

unding with sediment or excrementitious matter; muddy; thick; turbid. Both his hands most filthy feculent. Spenser.

ulled down and foiled under foot. Knoless. Whom he did all to pieces breake and foyle, In filthy durt, and left so in the loathely soyle. Spenser.

or containing, extraneous matter which is injurious, noxious, offensive, or obstructive; filthy; dirty; not clean; polluted; nasty; defiled; as, a foul cloth; foul hands; a foul chimney; foul air; a ship's bottom is foul when overgrown with barnacles; a gun becomes foul from repeated firing; a well is foul with pollut…

In a foul manner; filthily; nastily; shamefully; unfairly; dishonorably. I foully wronged him; do forgive me, do. Gay.

To disgorge filth, as a hawk.

An insatiable thing or person. That sink of filth, that guzzle most impure. Marston.

A fabulous winged monster, ravenous and filthy, having the face of a woman and the body of a vulture, with long claws, and the face pale with hunger. Some writers mention two, others three. Both table and provisions vanished guite. With sound of harpies' wings and talons heard. Milton.

A mean, filthy, or gluttonous fellow. [Low.]