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English Dictionary: sullage by the DICT Development Group
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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.

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) .
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