drossiest

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drossiest

  1. superlative form of drossy: most drossy
    • 1667, John Milton, “(please specify the page number)”, in Paradise Lost. [], London: [] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker []; [a]nd by Robert Boulter []; [a]nd Matthias Walker, [], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: [], London: Basil Montagu Pickering [], 1873, →OCLC, lines 439-442:
      if by fire
      Of sooty coal the Empiric Alchimist
      Can turn, or holds it possible to turn
      Metals of drossiest Ore to perfet Gold

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