diphryges

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.

diphryges, is, f., = διφρυγές, τό,

a kind of slag formed in furnaces when copper is melted , Plin. 34, 13, 37, § 135; Cels. 5, 7, 22; Scrib. Comp. 227 and 247.