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drossy, a.|ˈdrɒsɪ|
[f. dross n. + -y.]
1. Of metals, etc.: Characterized by containing dross or scorious matter, or waste and worthless material; of the nature of dross; dreggy, feculent.
c1420Pallad. on Husb. x. 106 Yf thi mede is drossy, bareyn, olde, Let plough hit eft. 1592Davies Immort. Soul Introd. xl, So doth the Fire the drossy Gold refine. 1667Milton P.L. v. 442 The Empiric Alchimist Can turn..Metals of drossiest Ore to perfet Gold. 1757A. Cooper Distiller i. xx. (1760) 83 The recrementitious or drossy Parts of the sugar. 1870Morris Earthly Par. II. iii. 158 As kingly gold To our thin brass, or drossy lead.
2. transf. and fig. Impure, mixed with impurities.
1579J. Stubbes Gaping Gulf A vij, Yet shal papistes be to light and to drossie to marry with vs. 1627–77Feltham Resolves i. lxx. 106 Words being rather the drossie part, Conceit I take to be the principal. 1854Faber Growth in Holiness xii. (1872) 205 We find our actions to be..only the drossy compound of nature and grace. |