noun. A mineral or an aggregate of minerals from which a valuable constituent, especially a metal, can be profitably mined or extracted.

noun. Favor; grace; mercy; clemency; protection.

noun. Honor; glory.

noun. A Middle English form of oar.

noun. A seaweed, especially Fucus vesiculosus or Laminaria digitata. Compare ore-weed.

noun. A kind of fine wool.

noun. Abbreviations of Oregon.

noun. One of the walls which surround the hearth of a Catalan forge.

noun. In the metallurgical treatment of the residue from burning off the sulphur of pyrites in the manufacture of sulphuric acid this material is mixed with common salt, roasted in a suitable furnace with free access of air, and, after cooling, leached with water to extract salts of copper. The dark-red oxid of iron which is left from the leaching is known as purple ore or blue billy. It is reduced to pulverulent metallic iron and used to precipitate copper from the solution obtained in the leaching.

noun. A metalliferous mineral of rock, especially one which is of sufficient value to be mined.

noun. Metal; sometimes, specifically, a precious metal, as gold.

noun. See the qualifying words.

noun. Honor; grace; favor; mercy; clemency; happy augury.

noun. The native form of a metal, whether free and uncombined, as gold, copper, etc., or combined, as iron, lead, etc. Usually the ores contain the metals combined with oxygen, sulphur, arsenic, etc. (called mineralizers).

noun. A native metal or its compound with the rock in which it occurs, after it has been picked over to throw out what is worthless.

noun. Metal.

noun. a low furnace in which rich lead ore is reduced; -- also called Scotch hearth.

noun. Rock that contains utilitarian materials; primarily a rock containing metals or gems which -- at the time of the rock's evaluation and proposal for extraction -- are able to be separated from its neighboring minerals and processed at a cost that does not exceed those materials' present-day economic values.

noun. a mineral that contains metal that is valuable enough to be mined

noun. a monetary subunit in Denmark and Norway and Sweden; 100 ore equal 1 krona

"This ore is the foundation material for our blast furnace operations at Sydney, Nova Scotia, and is also exported for use in the steel plants of the British Isles and of Germany."