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..
Eperlan :: Eperlan (n.) The European smelt (Osmerus eperlanus).
Smelter :: Smelter (n.) One who, or that which, smelts..
Smelting :: Smelting () a. & n. from Smelt.
Smeltie :: Smeltie (n.) A fish, the bib..
Sparling :: Sparling (n.) The European smelt (Osmerus eperlanus).
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..
Kish :: Kish (n.) A workman's name for the graphite which forms incidentally in iron smelting.
Sperling :: Sperling (n.) A smelt; a sparling.
Atherine :: Atherine (n.) A small marine fish of the family Atherinidae, having a silvery stripe along the sides. The European species (Atherina presbyter) is used as food. The American species (Menidia notata) is called silversides and sand smelt. See Silversides..
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..
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..
Smelt :: Smelt (n.) A gull; a simpleton.
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.
Smelt :: Smelt () imp. & p. p. of Smell.
Smeltery :: Smeltery (n.) A house or place for smelting.
Smelting :: Smelting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Smel.
Smelt :: Smelt () of Smel.
Bosh :: Bosh (n.) In forging and smelting, a trough in which tools and ingots are cooled..
Smelted :: Smelted (imp. & p. p.) of Smel.
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