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n.
The recrement of metals in fusion, or the slag rejected after the reduction of metallic ores; dross.
n.
Waste matter; any worthless matter separated from the better part; leavings; dregs; refuse.
n.
A mass of wrought iron from the Catalan forge or from the puddling furnace, deprived of its dross, and shaped usually in the form of an oblong block by shingling.
n.
Rubbish. Specifically: (a) Dross or refuse of metals. [Obs.] (b) Light, dry wood, or stuff used for fuel.
v.
The extraneous matter or impurities which rise to the surface of liquids in boiling or fermentation, or which form on the surface by other means; also, the scoria of metals in a molten state; dross.
n.
Dross, as of iron; the scale which files from iron when hammered; -- applied as a name to various minerals.
n.
Rust of metals.
n. sing. & pl.
The dross of metals.
a.
Of or pertaining to recrement; consisting of recrement or dross.
n.
See Drossel.
superl.
Of, pertaining to, resembling, dross; full of dross; impure; worthless.
n.
Any plant of the genus Drosera, low bog plants whose leaves are beset with pediceled glands which secrete a viscid fluid that glitters like dewdrops and attracts and detains insects. After an insect is caught, the glands curve inward like tentacles and the leaf digests it. Called also lustwort.
n.
The waste piece of metal cast in this hole; hence, dross.
n.
Removed scum; refuse; dross.
n.
A slut; a hussy; a drazel.
v. t.
The dross, or recrement, of a metal; also, vitrified cinders.
v. t.
To reduce to a fine, unmixed, or pure state; to free from impurities; to free from dross or alloy; to separate from extraneous matter; to purify; to defecate; as, to refine gold or silver; to refine iron; to refine wine or sugar.
pl.
of Drosky
a.
Free from dross.
n.
Superfluous matter separated from that which is useful; dross; scoria; as, the recrement of ore.
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