Word Meanings - DREGGY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Containing dregs or lees; muddy; foul; feculent. Boyle.

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.