dregs (dregz)

pl. [ The dregs thereof, all the wicked of the earth shall wring them out, and drink them. Ps. lxxv. 8. What too curious dreg espies my sweet lady in the fountain of our love? Shak., T. and C., iii. 2. King John, in the meanwhile, was draining the cup of bitterne to the dregs . Pre scott, Ferd. and Isa., 1. 2. You have stretched out your hands to save the dregs of the sifted sediment of a residuum. W. K. Clifford, Lectures, I. 253. 2. Waste or worthle matter; dro ; sweepings; refuse; hence, what is most vile and worthle : as, the dregs of society. From the dregs of life think to receive What the first sprightly running could not give. Dryden, Aurengzebe, iv. 1. What wonder is it, if ever since, and especially now, in these dregs of time, there be wilful men found, who will oppose their own vain fancies and novelties to the general sense of the whole body of Christians?