(Usually plural) The sediment of liquors; the more solid particles which settle at the bottom of a solution or other liquid; grounds, lees…

In plural. The particles deposited by a liquid in the bottom of the vessel containing it; dregs, lees. †Also singular: a residuum, sediment.

singular. Also figurative. Also upon the lee, to drain to the lee. Cf. 2d below. Obsolete.

plural. Grounds, lees, sediment. Cf. French fondrilles. Obsolete.

Matter which settles as a deposit in a liquid; sediment. Also in plural.

Matter composed of particles which fall by gravitation to the bottom of a liquid.

Deposited material, sediment; dregs. Frequently in plural. Cf. residence, n.2 1.

Chiefly Chemistry. Any precipitated substance; a solid, often powdery or flocculent, which separates or is deposited from a solution as a result…

concrete. Sediment, lees, dregs. Chiefly plural.

Chiefly Chemistry. A precipitated substance; a precipitate. Now rare.

The thick part of a non-homogeneous liquid, which solidifies or settles; lees, dregs, sediment.

Sediment; = hypostasis, n. 1a. Obsolete.

Material that has settled to the bottom of a liquid; sediment; a precipitate or residue. Obsolete.

= sediment, n.

= crassament, n. Obsolete.

Something deposited, laid or thrown down; a mass or layer of matter that has subsided or been precipitated from a fluid medium, or has collected in…

A loose sediment that forms in boilers and other vessels in which water is habitually heated.

= precipitate, n. 2a.