dross
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noun
1.
waste matter; refuse.
2.
Metallurgy. a waste product taken off molten metal during smelting, essentially metallic in character.
3.
British. coal of little value.
Origin:
before 1050; Middle English dros(se), Old English drōs; cognate with Middle Dutch droes dregs; compare Middle English drōsen, Old English drōsna; cognate with Middle High German truosen husks
before 1050; Middle English dros(se), Old English drōs; cognate with Middle Dutch droes dregs; compare Middle English drōsen, Old English drōsna; cognate with Middle High German truosen husks
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World English Dictionary
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| —n | |
| 1. | the scum formed, usually by oxidation, on the surfaces of molten metals |
| 2. | worthless matter; waste |
| [Old English drōs dregs; related to Old High German truosana] | |
| 'drossy | |
| —adj | |
| 'drossiness | |
| —n | |
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Word Origin & History
dross
O.E. dros "dirt, dregs," from P.Gmc. *drohs- (cf. Ger. Drusen "dregs, husks"). Originally "the scum thrown off from metals in smelting." Related to O.E. dreosan "to drip."
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Easton
Bible Dictionary
Dross definition
the impurities of silver separated from the one in the process of melting (Prov. 25:4; 26:23; Ps. 119:119). It is also used to denote the base metal itself, probably before it is smelted, in Isa. 1:22, 25.
Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary
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Example sentences
The dross has been burned away and what remains is the essential character.
Academics have declared the series dross, but one scholar finds in it true literary magic.
Dross is a layer of impurities and semisolid flux that has been skimmed from the surface of molten aluminum.
And a savage he is, politically, with no soul above the dross.
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