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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

SCO'RIA, n. [L. from the Gr. rejected matter, that which is thrown off.]
Dross; the recrement of metals in fusion, or the mass produced by melting metals and ores.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: the scum formed by oxidation at the surface of molten metals [syn: slag, scoria, dross]

Merriam Webster's

noun (plural scoriae) Etymology: Middle English, from Latin, from Greek sk?ria, from sk?r excrement — more at scatology Date: 14th century 1. the refuse from melting of metals or reduction of ores ; slag 2. rough vesicular cindery lava • scoriaceous adjective

Britannica Concise

Heavy, dark, glassy igneous rock that contains many bubblelike cavities. Foamlike scoria, in which the bubbles are very thin shells of solidified basaltic magma, occurs as a product of explosive eruptions (as on Hawaii) and as frothy crusts on some lavas. Other scoria, sometimes called volcanic cinder, resembles clinkers, or cinders from a coal furnace.

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. (pl. scoriae) 1 cellular lava, or fragments of it. 2 the slag or dross of metals. Derivatives: scoriaceous adj. Etymology: L f. Gk skoria refuse f. skor dung

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Scoria Sco"ri*a, n.; pl. Scori[ae]. [L., fr. Gr. ?, fr. ? dung, ordure.] 1. The recrement of metals in fusion, or the slag rejected after the reduction of metallic ores; dross. 2. Cellular slaggy lava; volcanic cinders.

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. Dross, slag, recrement.

Moby Thesaurus

aa, abyssal rock, alluvion, alluvium, ash, ashes, basalt, bedrock, block lava, brand, brash, breccia, calx, carbon, charcoal, cinder, clinker, coal, coke, conglomerate, coom, crag, deposition, deposits, diluvium, draff, dregs, dross, druid stone, ember, feces, festooned pahoehoe, froth, fume, gneiss, granite, grounds, igneous rock, lava, lees, limestone, living rock, loess, magma, mantlerock, metamorphic rock, monolith, moraine, offscum, pahoehoe, pillow lava, porphyry, precipitate, precipitation, pudding stone, reek, regolith, rock, ropy lava, rubble, rubblestone, sandstone, sarsen, schist, scree, scum, sediment, sedimentary rock, settlings, shelly pahoehoe, silt, sinter, slag, smoke, smudge, smut, soot, stone, sublimate, sullage, talus, tufa, tuff