sulliage

English

Etymology

Compare sullage, suillage, or sully (verb).

Noun

sulliage (usually uncountable, plural sulliages)

1. (obsolete) foulness; filth
   • The Government of the Tongue

     Though we wipe away with never so much care the dirt thrown at us, there will be left some sulliage behind.

   • Henry Hammond

     the sins and sulliages of their earthly affections

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “sulliage”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• ill-usage, suillage