Smelt

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  • noun. Any of various small silvery marine, freshwater, and anadromous food fishes of the family Osmeridae, found in cold waters of the Northern Hemisphere, especially Osmerus mordax of North America and O. eperlanus of Europe.
  • intransitive verb. To melt or fuse (ores) in order to separate the metallic constituents.
  • intransitive verb. To melt or fuse. Used of ores.
  • intransitive verb. undefined
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. Any one of various small fishes.
  • noun. A gull; a simpleton.
  • To fuse; melt; specifically, to treat (ore) in the large way, and chiefly in a furnace or by the aid of heat, for the purpose of separating the contained metal.
  • To fuse; melt; dissolve.
  • noun. undefined
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • imp. & p. p. of smell.
  • transitive verb. To melt or fuse, as, ore, for the purpose of separating and refining the metal; hence, to reduce; to refine; to flux or scorify.
  • noun. 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.
  • noun. A gull; a simpleton.
  • noun. the silverside.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. Any small anadromous fish of the family Osmeridae, found in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans and in lakes in North America and northern part of Europe.
  • verb. Simple past tense and past participle of smell.
  • noun. Production of metal, especially iron, from ore in a process that involves melting and chemical reduction of metal compounds into purified metal.
  • noun. Any of the various liquids or semi-molten solids produced and used during the course of such production.
  • verb. to fuse two things into one, especially when involving ores; to meld
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. small cold-water silvery fish; migrate between salt and fresh water
  • verb. extract (metals) by heating
  • noun. small trout-like silvery marine or freshwater food fishes of cold northern waters
    • Word Usage
    "Already the _Votaress's_ divine breath smelt of coffee, real coffee -- _chaud comme l'enfer et noir comme le diable -- smelt_ of it, as, we fear, we shall never smell it again in this trust-ridden world."
    Form
    smelted  smelting  
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    create  make  produce  
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Celt  belt  celt  dealt  dwelt  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    bream  brill  catfish  cisco  codfish  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    carve  chisel  colliquate  convert  cultivate  
    variant
    smell  
    verb-form
    smelted  smelting  smelts  
    verb-stem
    smell  
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