leaving

Usu. leavings

n

1. waste, wastage, remains, refuse, spoils; offscourings, scourings, sweepings, scum; sawdust, shavings, parings, filings, scrapings, raspings; chaff, stubbles; slag, sprue, dross, sordes; (all of skin) shreddings, sloughings, scurf, furfur, dandruff.

2. residue, residuum, remainder, rest, balance; remnants, leftover, (both usu. of food) leftovers, orts; oddments, rummage, odds and ends, truck, junk, Inf. crap; rejectamenta.

3. ruins, rubble, detritus, debris, litter; cinders, ashes, embers, coals, soot, carbon, smut, Chem. precipitate; lava, Geol. clinker.

4. rubbish, trash, garbage, offal, refuse, swill, slop, riffraff, Brit. Dial. raff; carrion.

5. deposit, alluvium, alluvion, Geol. diluvium or diluvion; moraine, silt, loess, sinter; dregs, draff, sediment, settlings, lees, heeltap, grounds.

6. droppings, guano, ordure, manure, fertilizer; dung, muck, excrement, feculence, feces, stool.