dreg

noun

Etymology: Borrowed from Old Norse dregg (“sediment”), from Proto-Germanic *dragjō (whence also Icelandic dregg, Swedish drägg), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰrā́ks (“sediment”); see also Latin fraces (“lees of oil”), Albanian ndrag (“to make dirty, foul”), dra (“sediments of dairy products or liquids”).

1. singular of dregs (“sediment in a liquid”)

   “to the last dreg”

   “What makes this pretty abruption? What too curious dreg espies my sweet lady in the fountain of our love?”