Definition of dregs

"dregs" in the noun sense

1. dreg

a small amount of residue

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Quotations for dregs

Friendship's full of dregs. [ Timon of Athens ]

Friendship is full of dregs. [ William Shakespeare ]

The bitter dregs of Fortune's cup to drain. [ Homer ]

Summer friends vanish when the cask is drained to the dregs. [ Horatius ]

The dregs may stir themselves as they please; they fall back to the bottom by their own coarseness. [ Joubert ]

Such a man, truly wise, creams off nature, leaving the sour and the dregs for philosophy and reason to lap up. [ Swift ]

He who only tastes his error will long dwell with it, will take delight in it as in a singular felicity; while he who drains it to the dregs will, if he be not crazy, find it to be what it is. [ Goethe ]

The first class of readers may be compared to an hour-glass, their reading being as the sand; it runs in and runs out, and leaves not a vestige behind. A second class resembles a sponge, which imbibes everything, and returns it in nearly the same state, only a little dirtier. A third class is like a jelly-bag, which allows all that is pure to pass away, and retains only the refuse and dregs. The fourth class may be compared to the slave of Golconda, who, casting aside all that is worthless, preserves only the pure gems. [ Coleridge ]

dregs in Scrabble®

The word dregs is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 7

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays In The Letters dregs:

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dregs in Words With Friends™

The word dregs is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 8

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Play In The Letters dregs:

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Words containing the sequence dregs

Words that start with dregs (1 word)

Words with dregs in them (1 word)

Words that end with dregs (1 word)

Word Growth involving dregs

Shorter words in dregs

re dreg

Longer words containing dregs

(No longer words found)