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Dregs

//dɹɛɡz// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The sediment settled at the bottom of a liquid; the lees in a container of unfiltered wine. plural, plural-normally

    "For in the hand of the Lord there is a cup, and the wine is red: it is full of mixture, and he powreth out of the same: but the dregges thereof all the wicked of the earth shall wring them out, and drinke them."

  2. 2
    sediment that has settled at the bottom of a liquid wordnet
  3. 3
    The worst and lowest part of something. figuratively, plural, plural-normally

    "the dregs of society"

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