Definition of smelt

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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..

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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..
Kish :: Kish (n.) A workman's name for the graphite which forms incidentally in iron smelting.
Smelt :: Smelt (n.) A gull; a simpleton.
Smelted :: Smelted (imp. & p. p.) of Smel.
Smeltie :: Smeltie (n.) A fish, the bib..
Sparling :: Sparling (n.) The European smelt (Osmerus eperlanus).
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..
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..
Eperlan :: Eperlan (n.) The European smelt (Osmerus eperlanus).
Smelt :: Smelt () of Smel.
Slacken :: Slacken (n.) A spongy, semivitrifled substance which miners or smelters mix with the ores of metals to prevent their fusion..
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..
Smeltery :: Smeltery (n.) A house or place for smelting.
Smelting :: Smelting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Smel.
Founding :: Founding (n.) The art of smelting and casting metals.
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..
Frostfish :: Frostfish (n.) The smelt.
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..
Smelter :: Smelter (n.) One who, or that which, smelts..
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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