Hypertext Webster Gateway: "sullage"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Sullage \Sul"lage\, n. [Cf. {Suillage}, {Sulliage}.]
1. Drainage of filth; filth collected from the street or
highway; sewage. [Obs.]

The streets were exceedingly large, well paved,
having many vaults and conveyances under them for
sullage. --Evelyn.

2. That which sullies or defiles. [Obs.]

It is the privilege of the celestial luminaries to
receive no tincture, sullage, or difilement from the
most noisome sinks and dunghills here below.
--South.

3. (Founding) The scoria on the surface of molten metal in
the ladle.

4. (Hydraul. Engin.) Silt; mud deposited by water.

{Sullage piece} (Founding), the sprue of a casting. See
{Sprue}, n., 1
(b) .

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Suillage \Su"il*lage\, n. [OF. souillage, soillage, fr.
souiller, soiller. See {Soil} to stain, and cf. {Sullage}.]
A drain or collection of filth. [Obs.] [Written also
{sulliage}, and {sullage}.] --Sir H. Wotton.


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