Word Meanings - DREGGISH - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Foul with lees; feculent. Harvey.

Related words: (words related to DREGGISH)

• FECULENT
  Foul with extraneous or impure substances; abounding with sediment or excrementitious matter; muddy; thick; turbid. Both his hands most filthy feculent. Spenser.
• HARVEY PROCESS
  A process of hardening the face of steel, as armor plates, invented by Hayward A. Harvey of New Jersey, consisting in the additional carburizing of the face of a piece of low carbon steel by subjecting it to the action of carbon under long-continued