'Dregs' definitions:
Definition of 'dregs'
(from WordNet)
noun
Sediment that has settled at the bottom of a liquid [syn: dregs, settlings]
Definition of 'dregs'
From: Easton
- Dregs (Ps. 75:8; Isa. 51:17, 22), the lees of wine which settle at the bottom of the vessel.
Synonyms of 'dregs'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- alluvion,
- alluvium,
- ash,
- bones,
- canaille,
- cattle,
- chaff,
- children of darkness,
- cinder,
- clinker,
- culm,
- deadwood,
- deposit,
- deposition,
- deposits,
- diluvium,
- dishwater,
- draff,
- dregs of society,
- dross,
- dust,
- ember,
- feces,
- filings,
- froth,
- garbage,
- gash,
- grounds,
- hogwash,
- husks,
- leavings,
- lees,
- limbs of Satan,
- loess,
- losers,
- masses,
- mob,
- moraine,
- offal,
- offscourings,
- offscum,
- orts,
- outcasts,
- pariahs,
- parings,
- potsherds,
- precipitate,
- precipitation,
- proletariat,
- rabble,
- raff,
- rags,
- ragtag and bobtail,
- raspings,
- refuse,
- remains,
- residue,
- riffraff,
- rubbish,
- scoria,
- scourings,
- scrap iron,
- scraps,
- scum,
- sediment,
- settlings,
- shards,
- shavings,
- silt,
- sinter,
- slack,
- slag,
- slop,
- slops,
- smut,
- sons of Belial,
- sons of men,
- soot,
- sordes,
- stubble,
- sublimate,
- sweepings,
- swill,
- swinish multitude,
- tares,
- the bad,
- the evil,
- the reprobate,
- the unrighteous,
- the wicked,
- trash,
- unwashed,
- vermin,
- wastage,
- waste,
- waste matter,
- wastepaper,
- weeds