Part 3468

<i>Kersey.</i>

<h1>Dredge</h1> <Xpage=453>

<hw>Dredge</hw>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <def>To sift or sprinkle flour, etc., on, as on roasting meat.</def>

<i>Beau. & Fl.</i>

<cs><col>Dredging box</col>. <sd>(a)</sd> <cd>Same as 2d <er>Dredger</er>.</cd> <sd>(b)</sd> <fld>(Gun.)</fld> <cd>A copper box with a perforated lid; -- used for sprinkling meal powder over shell fuses.</cd></cs>

<i>Farrow.</i>

<h1>Dredger</h1> <Xpage=453>

<hw>Dredg"er</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>One who fishes with a dredge.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>A dredging machine.</def>

<h1>Dredger</h1> <Xpage=453>

<hw>Dredg"er</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <fld>(Cookery)</fld> <def>A box with holes in its lid; -- used for sprinkling flour, as on meat or a breadboard; -- called also <altname>dredging box</altname>, <altname>drudger</altname>, and <altname>drudging box</altname>.</def>

<h1>Dree</h1> <Xpage=453>

<hw>Dree</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <ety>[AS. <ets>dre\'a2gan</ets> to bear, endure, complete.]</ety> <def>To endure; to suffer.</def> <mark>[Scot.]</mark>

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<hw>Dree</hw>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <def>To be able to do or endure.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<h1>Dree</h1> <Xpage=453>

<hw>Dree</hw>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Wearisome; tedious.</def> <mark>[Prov. Eng.]</mark>

<h1>Dreg</h1> <Xpage=453>

<hw>Dreg</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Prob. from Icel. <ets>dregg</ets>; akin to Sw. <ets>dr\'84gg</ets>, cf. Icel. & Sw. <ets>draga</ets> to draw. Cf. <er>Draw</er>.]</ety> <def>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>as, the <ex>dregs</ex> of society</as>.</def>

<blockquote>We, the <b>dregs</b> and rubbish of mankind. <i>Dryden.</i></blockquote>

<note>&hand; Used formerly (rarely) in the singular, as by Spenser and Shakespeare, but now chiefly in the plural.</note>

<h1>Dregginess</h1> <Xpage=453>

<hw>Dreg"gi*ness</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>Fullness of dregs or lees; foulness; feculence.</def>

<h1>Dreggish</h1> <Xpage=453>

<hw>Dreg"gish</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Foul with lees; feculent.</def>

<i>Harvey.</i>

<h1>Dreggy</h1> <Xpage=453>