FEC'ULENCE, FEC'ULENCY, noun [Latin faeculentia, from facula, faces, fax, dregs.] 1. Muddiness; foulness; the quality of being foul with extraneous matter or lees. 2. Lees; sediment; dregs; or rather the substances mixed with liquor, or floating in it, which, when separated and lying at the bottom, are called lees, dregs or sediment. The refining or fining of liquor is the separation of it from its feculencies.
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