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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  dregs
       n : sediment that has settled at the bottom of a liquid [syn: {grounds},
            {settlings}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:



  98 Moby Thesaurus words for "dregs":
     alluvion, alluvium, ash, bones, canaille, cattle, chaff,
     children of darkness, cinder, clinker, culm, deadwood, deposit,
     deposition, deposits, diluvium, dishwater, draff, dregs of society,
     dross, dust, ember, feces, filings, froth, garbage, gash, grounds,
     hogwash, husks, leavings, lees, limbs of Satan, loess, losers,
     masses, mob, moraine, offal, offscourings, offscum, orts, outcasts,
     pariahs, parings, potsherds, precipitate, precipitation,
     proletariat, rabble, raff, rags, ragtag and bobtail, raspings,
     refuse, remains, residue, riffraff, rubbish, scoria, scourings,
     scrap iron, scraps, scum, sediment, settlings, shards, shavings,
     silt, sinter, slack, slag, slop, slops, smut, sons of Belial,
     sons of men, soot, sordes, stubble, sublimate, sweepings, swill,
     swinish multitude, tares, the bad, the evil, the reprobate,
     the unrighteous, the wicked, trash, unwashed, vermin, wastage,
     waste, waste matter, wastepaper, weeds
  
  

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:

  Dregs
     (Ps. 75:8; Isa. 51:17, 22), the lees of wine which settle at the
     bottom of the vessel.
     

















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