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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

pl.

Things left; remnants; relics.

Refuse; offal.

Noun.

plu.

Things left; remnant; relics.

The leavings of Pharsalia.

Refuse; offal.

leavings ‎(uncountable)

A worthless and incidental residuum, as scraps from a meal or shavings or sawdust from wood.
The leavings were thrown to the dogs.
A worthless surfeit of material, as leftovers from a meal or scrap lumber.
The poor survive on the leavings of the rich and wasteful.

that which is left