Emily Dickinson Lexicon
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.]
- Dismal; gloomy; as, a dreary waste; dreary shades. This word implies both solitude and gloom.
- Sorrowful; distressing; as, dreary shrieks. – Spenser.
DREDGE, n. [Fr. drege; Arm. drag, as in English.]
- A dragnet for taking oysters, &c. – Carew.
- 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.
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.]
- The sediment of liquors; lees; grounds; feculence; any foreign matter of liquors that subsides to the bottom of a vessel.
- 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.