Word Meanings - DROSSLESS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Free from dross. Stevens.

Related words: (words related to DROSSLESS)

• DROSS
  1. The scum or refuse matter which is thrown off, or falls from, metals in smelting the ore, or in the process of melting; recrement. 2. Rust of metals. Addison. 3. Waste matter; any worthless matter separated from the better part; leavings;
• DROSSEL
  A slut; a hussy; a drazel. Warner.
• DROSSY
  Of, pertaining to, resembling, dross; full of dross; impure; worthless. " Drossy gold." Dryden. "Drossy rhymes." Donne. -- Dross"i*ness, n.
• DROSSLESS
  Free from dross. Stevens.