Definition of smelt

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Smelt (n.) Any one of numerous species of small silvery salmonoid fishes of the genus Osmerus and allied genera, which ascend rivers to spawn, and sometimes become landlocked in lakes. They are esteemed as food, and have a peculiar odor and taste..

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Regulus :: Regulus (n.) The button, globule, or mass of metal, in a more or less impure state, which forms in the bottom of the crucible in smelting and reduction of ores..
Metallurgy :: Metallurgy (n.) The art of working metals, comprehending the whole process of separating them from other matters in the ore, smelting, refining, and parting them; sometimes, in a narrower sense, only the process of extracting metals from their ores..
Sperling :: Sperling (n.) A smelt; a sparling.
Kish :: Kish (n.) A workman's name for the graphite which forms incidentally in iron smelting.
Frostfish :: Frostfish (n.) The smelt.
Smelt :: Smelt () of Smel.
Candlefish :: Candlefish (n.) A marine fish (Thaleichthys Pacificus), allied to the smelt, found on the north Pacific coast; -- called also eulachon. It is so oily that, when dried, it may be used as a candle, by drawing a wick through it.
Founding :: Founding (n.) The art of smelting and casting metals.
Smelt :: Smelt (n.) Any one of numerous species of small silvery salmonoid fishes of the genus Osmerus and allied genera, which ascend rivers to spawn, and sometimes become landlocked in lakes. They are esteemed as food, and have a peculiar odor and taste..
Tutty :: Tutty (n.) A yellow or brown amorphous substance obtained as a sublimation product in the flues of smelting furnaces of zinc, and consisting of a crude zinc oxide..
Eperlan :: Eperlan (n.) The European smelt (Osmerus eperlanus).
Dross :: Dross (n.) The scum or refuse matter which is thrown off, or falls from, metals in smelting the ore, or in the process of melting; recrement..
Slacken :: Slacken (n.) A spongy, semivitrifled substance which miners or smelters mix with the ores of metals to prevent their fusion..
Bosh :: Bosh (n.) In forging and smelting, a trough in which tools and ingots are cooled..
Smelter :: Smelter (n.) One who, or that which, smelts..
Smelt :: Smelt (v. i.) To melt or fuse, as, ore, for the purpose of separating and refining the metal; hence, to reduce; to refine; to flux or scorify; as, to smelt tin..
Smeltie :: Smeltie (n.) A fish, the bib..
Smeltery :: Smeltery (n.) A house or place for smelting.
Smelting :: Smelting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Smel.
Foge :: Foge (n.) The Cornish name for a forge used for smelting tin.
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