Usually means: Waste material; impurities in metals.
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  1. dross: Merriam-Webster
  2. dross: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. dross: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. dross: Collins English Dictionary
  5. dross: Vocabulary.com
  6. Dross, dross: Wordnik
  7. dross: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. dross: Wiktionary
  9. dross: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. dross: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. dross: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Dross, dross: Dictionary.com
  13. dross: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Dross: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Dross: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. dross: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. dross: Rhymezone
  18. Dross: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. dross: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. dross: FreeDictionary.org
  21. dross: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. dross: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. dross: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. dross: Encyclopedia

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  1. Dross: Easton Bible

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  1. dross: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Dross: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See drossing as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  Waste or impure matter.
noun:  Residue that forms as a scum on the surface of molten metal from oxidation.
noun:  The impurities in metal.
noun:  A waste product from working with metal.
noun:  (figurative) Worthless or trivial matter.
noun:  (slang) Residual raw opium left in an opium pipe which can be recycled for further sale or use.
verb:  (transitive) To remove dross from.

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