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Dregs. See 2d Lee.

To lose. [Obs.] They would rather leese their friend than their jest. Lord Burleigh.

The full profits or products which ground or land yields, as the hay of the meadows, the feed of the pasture, the grain of arable fields, the rents, services, and the like. Cowell.

Merry; joyous; gleeful.

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

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…

A colorlees or greenish oil extracted from cajuput.

The act of pouring off a clear liquor gently from its lees or sediment, or from one vessel into another.

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.

upt or defiling matter contained in a liquid, or precipitated from it; refuse; feculence; 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.

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.

The prince of the evil spirits; Satan. [Written also Eblees.]

The lees of beer, cider, etc.; yeast. [U.S.]

That which is feculent; sediment; lees; dregs.

or wool and fur, fulled or wrought into a compact substance by rolling and pressure, with lees or size, without spinning or weaving. It were a delicate stratagem to shoe A troop of horse with felt. Shak .