Dictionary: DREAM'FUL – DREGS

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DREAM'FUL, a.

Full of dreams. – Johnson.

DREAM'ING, ppr.

Having thoughts or ideas in sleep.

DREAM'LESS, a.

Free from dreams. Camden.

DREAM'LESS-LY, adv.

In a dreamless manner.

DREAMT, pp. [dremt. From Dream.]

DREAM'Y, a.

Full of dreams.

DREAR, a. [Sax. dreorig, dreary.]

Dismal; gloomy with solitude. A drear and dying sound. Milton.

DREAR, n.

Dread; dismalness. [Obs.] – Spenser.

DREAR'I-HEAD, n.

Dismalness; gloominess. [Not in use.] – Spenser.

DREAR'I-LY, adv.

Gloomily; dismally. – Spenser.

DREAR'I-MENT, n.

Dismalness; terror. [Obs.]

DREAR'I-NESS, n.

Dismalness; gloomy solitude.

DREAR'Y, a. [Sax. dreorig.]

  1. Dismal; gloomy; as, a dreary waste; dreary shades. This word implies both solitude and gloom.
  2. Sorrowful; distressing; as, dreary shrieks. – Spenser.

DREDGE, n. [Fr. drege; Arm. drag, as in English.]

  1. A dragnet for taking oysters, &c. – Carew.
  2. A mixture of oats and barley sown together.

DREDGE, v.t.1

To take, catch or gather with a dredge. – Carew.

DREDGE, v.t.2 [This seems to be connected with the Fr. drague, grains, dragée, sugar plums, small shot, meslin.]

To sprinkle flour on roast meat.

DREDG'ED, pp.

Caught or gathered with a dredge; sprinkled, as flour on roasting meat.

DREDG'ER, n.

One who fishes with a dredge; also, an utensil for scattering flour on meat while roasting.

DREDG'ING-BOX, n.

A box used for dredging meat.

DREDG'ING-MA-CHINE, n.

An engine used to take up mud or gravel from the bottom of rivers, docks, &c. – Cyc.

DREE, v.t. [Sax. dreah.]

To suffer. [Not used.] – Ray.

DREG'GI-NESS, n. [from dreggy.]

Fullness of dregs or lees; foulness; feculence.

DREG'GISH, a.

Full of dregs; foul with lees; feculent. – Harvey.

DREG'GY, a. [See Dregs.]

Containing dregs or lees; consisting of dregs; foul; muddy; feculent. – Boyle.

DREGS, n. [plur. Sw. drägg; Dan. drank; Gr. τρυξ, τρυγια. That which is drained or thrown off, or that which subsides. See Class Rg, No. 8, 28, 58.]

  1. The sediment of liquors; lees; grounds; feculence; any foreign matter of liquors that subsides to the bottom of a vessel.
  2. Waste or worthless matter; dross; sweepings; refuse. Hence, the most vile and despicable part of men; as, the dregs of society. Dreg, in the singular, is found in Spenser, but is not now used.