Dross: alternatives and connections

Any combination or compound of metals fused together; a mixture of metals; for example, brass, which is an alloy of copper and zinc. B…

A melting together; the act of melting; fusion.

Soot; coal dust; refuse matter, as the dirty grease which comes from axle boxes, or the refuse at the mouth of an oven.

Food for dogs, made from the refuse of tallow melting.

A vessel or melting pot, composed of some very refractory substance, as clay, graphite, platinum, and used for melting and calcining s…

A furnace for melting iron or other metals in large quantity, -- used chiefly in foundries and steel works.

A melting or dissolution in the air, or in a moist place; a liquid condition; as, a salt falls into a deliquium.

To refuse to grant; to withhold; to refuse to gratify or yield to; as, to deny a request.

That which is deposited; matter laid or thrown down; sediment; alluvial matter; as, banks are sometimes depositions of alluvial matter.

The act of throwing up froth or scum; separation of the scum or impurities from liquids; scumming; clarification.

The act of dumping loads from carts, especially loads of refuse matter; also, a heap of dumped matter.

To remain firm under; to sustain; to undergo; to support without breaking or yielding; as, metals endure a certain degree of heat with…

To Descend, either suddenly or gradually; particularly, to descend by the force of gravity; to drop; to sink; as, the apple falls; the…

The art of smelting and casting metals.

An inclosed place in which heat is produced by the combustion of fuel, as for reducing ores or melting metals, for warming a house, fo…

The act or operation of melting or rendering fluid by heat; the act of melting together; as, the fusion of metals.

The refuse thrown back into the excavation after removing the coal. It is called also gob stuff.

An averment employed in pleading, to point the application of matter otherwise unintelligible; an interpretative parenthesis thrown in…