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Drossy

Drossy \Dross"y\, a. [Compar. Drossier; superl. Drossiest.] Of, pertaining to, resembling, dross; full of dross; impure; worthless. `` Drossy gold.''
--Dryden. ``Drossy rhymes.''
--Donne. -- Dross"i*ness, n.

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drossy

a. worthless

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And from thy star there passed repeated flashes across the head of the tadpole, till his brilliance was as 'twere severed from him, and he, like drossy silver, a dead shape in the conspicuous heavens.

This is done without fusion of the metal, and serves to consume the more drossy parts of the ore and to make it friable.