Word Meanings - DREGGY - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Containing dregs or lees; muddy; foul; feculent. Boyle.
Related words: (words related to DREGGY)
- FECULENT
Foul with extraneous or impure substances; abounding with sediment or excrementitious matter; muddy; thick; turbid. Both his hands most filthy feculent. Spenser. - CONTAINMENT
That which is contained; the extent; the substance. The containment of a rich man's estate. Fuller. - BOYLE'S LAW
See LAW - MUDDY
1. Abounding in mud; besmeared or dashed with mud; as, a muddy road or path; muddy boots. 2. Turbid with mud; as, muddy water. 3. Consisting of mud or earth; gross; impure. This muddy vesture of decay. Shak. 4. Confused, as if turbid with mud; - MUDDY-METTLED
Dull-spirited. Shak. - CONTAINANT
A container. - CONTAINABLE
Capable of being contained or comprised. Boyle. - MUDDY-HEADED
Dull; stupid. - CONTAINER
One who, or that which, contains. - CONTAIN
1. To hold within fixed limits; to comprise; to include; to inclose; to hold. Behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens can not contain thee; how much less this house! 2 Chron. vi. 18. When that this body did contain a spirit. Shak. What thy stores - SELF-CONTAINED
Having all the essential working parts connected by a bedplate or framework, or contained in a case, etc., so that mutual relations of the parts do not depend upon fastening outside of the machine itself. Self-contained steam engine.