Vocabulary : Scorie to Scorn

Scorie : The young of any gull.
Scorification : The act, process, or result of scorifying, or reducing to a slag; hence, the separation from earthy matter by means of a slag; as, the scorification of ores.
Scorified : of Scorify
Scorifier : One who, or that which, scorifies; specifically, a small flat bowl-shaped cup used in the first heating in assaying, to remove the earth and gangue, and to concentrate the gold and silver in a lead button.
Scoriform : In the form of scoria.

Scorify : To reduce to scoria or slag; specifically, in assaying, to fuse so as to separate the gangue and earthy material, with borax, lead, soda, etc., thus leaving the gold and silver in a lead button; hence, to separate from, or by means of, a slag.
Scorifying : of Scorify
Scoring : of Score ;; of Scorn
Scorious : Scoriaceous.
Scorn : Extreme and lofty contempt; haughty disregard; that disdain which springs from the opinion of the utter meanness and unworthiness of an object. ;; An act or expression of extreme contempt. ;; An object of extreme disdain, contempt, or derision. ;; To hold in extreme contempt; to reject as unworthy of regard; to despise; to contemn; to disdain. ;; To treat with extreme contempt; to make the object of insult; to mock; to scoff at; to deride. ;; To scoff; to mock; to show contumely, derision, or reproach; to act disdainfully.

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