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Definition of smelt

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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..

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

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

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

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..

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

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

Frostfish :: Frostfish (n.) The smelt.

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

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..

Crop :: Crop (n.) Tin ore prepared for smelting.

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

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

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

Smelt :: Smelt () of Smel.

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..

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

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..

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.

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.).