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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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..
Bosh :: Bosh (n.) In forging and smelting, a trough in which tools and ingots are cooled..
Smelting :: Smelting () a. & n. from Smelt.
Frostfish :: Frostfish (n.) The smelt.
Eperlan :: Eperlan (n.) The European smelt (Osmerus eperlanus).
Smelting :: Smelting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Smel.
Smelt :: Smelt () of Smel.
Crop :: Crop (n.) Tin ore prepared for smelting.
Smeltie :: Smeltie (n.) A fish, the bib..
Smeltery :: Smeltery (n.) A house or place for smelting.
Foge :: Foge (n.) The Cornish name for a forge used for smelting tin.
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..
Kish :: Kish (n.) A workman's name for the graphite which forms incidentally in iron smelting.
Smelt :: Smelt (n.) A gull; a simpleton.
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..
Slacken :: Slacken (n.) A spongy, semivitrifled substance which miners or smelters mix with the ores of metals to prevent their fusion..
Silversides :: Silversides (n.) Any one of several species of small fishes of the family Atherinidae, having a silvery stripe along each side of the body. The common species of the American coast (Menidia notata) is very abundant. Called also silverside, sand smelt, friar, tailor, and tinker..
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.
Smelter :: Smelter (n.) One who, or that which, smelts..
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