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; lees; grounds; sediment; hence, the vilest and most worthless part of anything; as, the dregs of society. We, the dregs and rubbish of mankind. Dryden.

Fullness of dregs or lees; foulness; feculence.

Foul with lees; feculent. Harvey.

Containing dregs or lees; muddy; foul; feculent. Boyle.

See Bonito, 3.

Medregal.

A lava field. [Mexico & Western U.S.]

Lees; dregs. [Prov. Eng.] Wright.

Full off dregs; foul. [R.] Knowles.

The medregal (Seriola fasciata), an edible fish of the southern of the United States and the West Indies.

Dregs or grounds; lees; sediment. Johnson. At bottom, At the bottom, at the foundation or basis; in reality. "He was at the bottom a good man." J. F. Cooper. -- To be at the bottom of, to be the cause or originator of; to be the source of. [Usually in an opprobrious sense.] J. H. Newman. He was at the bottom of many e…

Freed from anything that can pollute, as dregs, lees, etc.; refined; purified. Till the soul be defecate from the dregs of sense. Bates.

The act of separating from impurities, as lees or dregs; purification.

Refuse; lees; dregs; the wash given to swine or cows; hogwash; waste matter. Prodigals lately come from swine keeping, from eating draff and husks. Shak. The draff and offal of a bygone age. Buckle. Mere chaff and draff, much better burnt. Tennyson.

Dreggy; waste; worthless. The dregs and draffy part. Beau. & Fl.

Waste matter; any worthless matter separated from the better part; leavings; dregs; refuse. All world's glory is but dross unclean. Spenser. At the devil's booth are all things sold, Each ounce of dross coats its ounce of gold. Lowell.

The lees or dregs of cane juice, used in the distillation of rum. [West Indies] The use of dunder in the making of rum answers the purpose of yeast in the fermentation of flour. B. Edwards.

relating to, or containing, dregs, feces, or ordeure; fæcal.

dregs; sediment; excrement. See FÆces.

That which is feculent; sediment; lees; dregs.