Definitions for dross

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Spelling: [draws, dros]
IPA: /drɔs, drɒs/

Dross is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 6 points.

You can make 43 anagrams from letters in dross (dorss).

Definitions for dross

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 of dross

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

Examples for dross

And a savage he is, politically, with no soul above the dross.

But less of this happened, we may feel sure, than a purging away of the dross.

To be in harmony with the lonely dead there must be no dross about the mind.

But there is rapture in the cup—there is the vision which makes all life below it dross for ever.

To him now all was dross that was not Helena, as to Faust in Marlowe's play.

The Goddess shall purge me from my uncleanness as metal is purged from the dross.

The silver has been mined, digged from the earth, but there is dross in it.

Well, what signifies which of us has the dross, so that there is enough for both?

No woman had ever been so foolish as she; she had cast away gold for dross.

You are above all this, and can look down at it as dross, and I like you for that also.

Word Value for dross
Scrable

6

Words with friends

6

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