From: utzoo!decvax!decwrl!sun!megatest!fortune!guzis Newsgroups: net.nlang Title: Another opposite-meaning word Article-I.D.: fortune.760 Posted: Sun Jan 30 20:36:47 1983 Received: Mon Jan 31 05:17:09 1983 The verb "dross", at least in the OED has meanings 2. To render drossy or impure 4. To free from dross, remove dross from I cheated a bit; definition 2 is considered to be obsolescent by the OED. I suspect that there are quite a few of the nouns-become-verbs opposites though. - Chuck Guzis fortune!guzis