Definition of smelt

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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..

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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..
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..
Smeltie :: Smeltie (n.) A fish, the bib..
Smeltery :: Smeltery (n.) A house or place for smelting.
Smelt :: Smelt () imp. & p. p. of Smell.
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..
Sperling :: Sperling (n.) A smelt; a sparling.
Smelting :: Smelting () a. & n. from Smelt.
Founding :: Founding (n.) The art of smelting and casting metals.
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..
Shadrach :: Shadrach (n.) A mass of iron on which the operation of smelting has failed of its intended effect; -- so called from Shadrach, one of the three Hebrews who came forth unharmed from the fiery furnace of Nebuchadnezzar. (See Dan. iii. 26, 27.).
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..
Crop :: Crop (n.) Tin ore prepared for smelting.
Eperlan :: Eperlan (n.) The European smelt (Osmerus eperlanus).
Smelter :: Smelter (n.) One who, or that which, smelts..
Frostfish :: Frostfish (n.) The smelt.
Foge :: Foge (n.) The Cornish name for a forge used for smelting tin.
Smelted :: Smelted (imp. & p. p.) of Smel.
Sparling :: Sparling (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..
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