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Discolored; stained; not cleanly kept; filthy. The rustly little schooners that bring fire wood from the Brititsh provinces. Hawthorne.

Eating, or subsisting on, filth.

To cleanse, as streets, from filth. C. Kingsley.

A drain or passage to carry off water and filth under ground; a subterraneous channel, particularly in cities.

Filth; sediment. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

A drain to carry off filthy water; a jakes.

Filth; abomination. [Obs.] To purge the snottery of our slimy time. Marston.

Foul matter; excretion; dregs; filthy, useless, or rejected matter of any kind; specifically (Med.), the foul matter that collects on the teeth and tongue in low fevers and other conditions attended with great vital depression.

Filthy; foul; dirty. [Obs.] A sordid god; down from his hoary chin A length of beard descends, uncombed, unclean. Dryden.

Dirty through neglect; foul; filthy; extremely dirty. Uncomed his locks, and squalid his attrie. Dryden. Those squalid dens, which are the reproach of large capitals. Macaulay.

The quality or state of being squalid; foulness; filthiness.

Squalidness; foulness; filthness; squalidity. The heterogenous indigent multitude, everywhere wearing nearly the same aspect of squalor. Taylor. To bring this sort of squalor among the upper classes. Dickens.

A drain or collection of filth. [Obs.] [Written also sulliage, and sullage.] Sir H. Wotton.

Drainage of filth; filth collected from the street or highway; sewage. [Obs.] The streets were exceedingly large, well paved, having many vaults and conveyances under them for sullage. Evelyn.

Foulness; filth. [Obs.] Though we wipe away with never so much care the dirt thrown at us, there will be left some sulliage behind. Gov. of Tongue.

Liquid filth; wash; hog mash. [Obs.]

One whose business is to free wool from its filth. [Prov. Eng.]

Not clean; foul; dirty; filthy.

Not washed or cleansed; filthy; unclean.

To live in filth or gross vice; to disport one's self in a beastly and unworthy manner. God sees a man wallowing in his native impurity. South.