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(collectively) The sediment settled at the bottom of a liquid; the lees in a container of unfiltered wine. examples
(figuratively, the dregs) The worst and lowest part of something. quotations examples
Yet even now I had not drunk the bitter potion to the dregs; I was not yet persuaded of my loss; I did not yet feel in every pulsation, in every nerve, in every thought, that I remained alone of my race - that I was The Last Man.
1826, [Mary Shelley], chapter IX, in The Last Man. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […]