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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..

Smelt :: Smelt () of Smel.

Frostfish :: Frostfish (n.) The smelt.

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..

Smelting :: Smelting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Smel.

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..

Founding :: Founding (n.) The art of smelting and casting metals.

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..

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..

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..

Bosh :: Bosh (n.) In forging and smelting, a trough in which tools and ingots are cooled..

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..

Smelt :: Smelt () imp. & p. p. of Smell.

Smelt :: Smelt (n.) A gull; a simpleton.

Kish :: Kish (n.) A workman's name for the graphite which forms incidentally in iron smelting.

Smelter :: Smelter (n.) One who, or that which, smelts..

Slacken :: Slacken (n.) A spongy, semivitrifled substance which miners or smelters mix with the ores of metals to prevent their fusion..

Smeltery :: Smeltery (n.) A house or place for smelting.

Foge :: Foge (n.) The Cornish name for a forge used for smelting tin.

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