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A small quantity of dirty standing water; a muddy plash; a small pool. Spenser.

Cleanness; freedom from foulness or dirt. "The purity of a linen vesture." Holyday.

Smoky; reeky; hence, begrimed with dirt. [Obs.]

ize of an ordinary quince, having a rough, brittle, dull brown rind, the flesh being of a dirty yellowish white color, very soft, and deliciously sweet. Called also naseberry. It is eatable only when it begins to be spotted, and is much used in desserts.

Soil; dirt; dirty water; urine from a cowhouse. [Prov. Eng.]

A mean, dirty, paltry fellow. [Low] Shak.

he skull; also, brains; sense; discretion. [Colloq.] To knock him about the sconce with a dirty shovel. Shak.

rpose of cleaning; to clean by friction; to make clean or bright; to cleanse from grease, dirt, etc., as articles of dress.

Mean; dirty; contemptible; scrubby. How solitary, how scrub, does this town lokk! Walpole. No little scrub joint shall come on my board. Swift. Scrub game, a game, as of ball, by unpracticed players. -- Scrub race, a race between scrubs, or between untrained animals or contestants.

A place for dregs and dirt; a sink; a sewer. [Obs.] Latimer.

Torn or worn to rage; poor; mean; ragged. Wearing shabby coats and dirty shirts. Macaulay.

Wet and dirty; slushy. [Prov. Eng.]

Resembling a slattern; sluttish; negligent; dirty. -- adv.

Any mucilaginous substance; any substance of a dirty nature, that is moist, soft, and adhesive.

Dirty water; water in which anything has been washed or rinsed; water from wash-bowls, etc. Slop basin, or Slop bowl, a basin or bowl for holding slops, especially for receiving the rinsings of tea or coffee cups at the table. -- Slop molding (Brickmaking), a process of manufacture in which the brick is carried to the…

A mean, dirty wretch. [Low]

A foul back street of a city, especially one filled with a poor, dirty, degraded, and often vicious population; any low neighborhood or dark retreat; -- usually in the plural; as, Westminster slums are haunts for theives. Dickens.

To smear with something which stains, or makes dirty; to smutch; to begrime; to soil; to sully. I'll . . . with a kind of umber smirch my face. Shak.

Dirty foul. [Obs.] Chaucer.

To stain or mark with smut; to blacken with coal, soot, or other dirty substance.