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Smelt :: Smelt () of Smel.

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

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.

Smeltie :: Smeltie (n.) A fish, the bib..

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

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

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..

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..

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..

Smelting :: Smelting () a. & n. from Smelt.

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

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

Sparling :: Sparling (n.) The European smelt (Osmerus eperlanus).

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..

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..

Smelted :: Smelted (imp. & p. p.) of Smel.

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

Sperling :: Sperling (n.) A smelt; a sparling.

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