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Dreg :: Dreg (n.) Corrupt 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..

Hypostasis :: Hypostasis (n.) That which is deposited at the bottom of a fluid; sediment.

Settle :: Settle (v. i.) To sink to the bottom; to fall to the bottom, as dregs of a liquid, or the sediment of a reserveir..

Lee :: Lee (n.) That which settles at the bottom, as of a cask of liquor (esp. wine); sediment; dregs; -- used now only in the plural..

Shale :: Shale (n.) A fine-grained sedimentary rock of a thin, laminated, and often friable, structure..

Plonge :: Plonge (v. t.) To cleanse, as open drains which are entered by the tide, by stirring up the sediment when the tide ebbs..

Ground :: Ground (n.) Sediment at the bottom of liquors or liquids; dregs; lees; feces; as, coffee grounds..

Sediment :: Sediment (n.) The matter which subsides to the bottom, frrom water or any other liquid; settlings; lees; dregs..

Faeces :: Faeces (n.pl.) Excrement; ordure; also, settlings; sediment after infusion or distillation..

Sedimentary :: Sedimentary (a.) Of or pertaining to sediment; formed by sediment; containing matter that has subsided.

Flocculation :: Flocculation (n.) The process by which small particles of fine soils and sediments aggregate into larger lumps.

Roil :: Roil (v.) To render turbid by stirring up the dregs or sediment of; as, to roil wine, cider, etc. , in casks or bottles; to roil a spring..

Bottom :: Bottom (n.) Dregs or grounds; lees; sediment.

Cystine :: Cystine (n.) A white crystalline substance, C3H7NSO2, containing sulphur, occuring as a constituent of certain rare urinary calculi, and occasionally found as a sediment in urine..

Yeast :: Yeast (n.) The foam, or troth (top yeast), or the sediment (bottom yeast), of beer or other in fermentation, which contains the yeast plant or its spores, and under certain conditions produces fermentation in saccharine or farinaceous substances; a preparation used for raising dough for bread or cakes, and making it light and puffy; barm; ferment..

Mudhole :: Mudhole (n.) A hole near the bottom, through which the sediment is withdrawn..

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

Purge :: Purge (v. t.) To clear of sediment, as a boiler, or of air, as a steam pipe, by driving off or permitting escape..

Metamorphism :: Metamorphism (n.) The state or quality of being metamorphic; the process by which the material of rock masses has been more or less recrystallized by heat, pressure, etc., as in the change of sedimentary limestone to marble..

Feculence :: Feculence (n.) That which is feculent; sediment; lees; dregs.

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