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The scum or refuse matter which is thrown off, or falls from, metals in smelting the ore, or in the process of melting; recrement.

A car or boat for dumping refuse, etc.

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

A bridle check; a jerk of one rein, given to a horse when he refuses to turn.

The performance of an office, a ceremony, or a religious duty. Lewis refused even those of the church of England . . . the public exercise of their religion. Addison. To draw him from his holy exercise. Shak.

The refuse or meaner part of anything. The fag-end of business. Collier.

The refuse whale blubber, used as a manure, and in the manufacture of Prussian blue. Ure.

izontally; without spirit; dully; frigidly; peremptori;y; positively, plainly. "He flatly refused his aid." Sir P. Sidney. He that does the works of religion slowly, flatly, and without appetite. Jer. Taylor.

Woolen or cotton refuse (sing. or pl.), old rags, etc., reduced to a degree of fineness by machinery, and used for stuffing unpholstered furniture.

ng, a gauze-covered, revolving, cylindrical frame or reel, for sifting the flour from the refuse contained in the meal yielded by the stones. -- Flour box a tin box for scattering flour; a dredging box. -- Flour dredge or dredger, a flour box. -- Flour dresser, a mashine for sorting and distributing flour according…

The finer refuse part of whale blubber, not wholly deprived of oil. Simmonds.

To refuse; to decline; to give no heed. Thou shalt speak my words unto them, whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear. Ezek. ii. 7.

To renounce; to reject; to refuse. If you forsake the offer of their love. Shak.

Offal, as the bowels of an animal or fish; refuse animal or vegetable matter from a kitchen; hence, anything worthless, disgusting, or loathsome. Grainger.

Refuse; rubbish. [Obs.] Wolcott.

ount, was afterward regarded as a place of abomination, and made a receptacle for all the refuse of the city, perpetual fires being kept up in order to prevent pestilential effluvia. In the New Testament the name is transferred, by an easy metaphor, to Hell. The pleasant valley of Hinnom. Tophet thence And black Gehenn…

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

An alvine evacuation; also, refuse matter. [Obs. or Local] Holland.

The refuse or coarse part of fiax; tow.

To draw through the teeth of a hatchel, as flax or hemp, so as to separate the coarse and refuse parts from the fine, fibrous parts.