Smelt

smelt
    n 1: small cold-water silvery fish; migrate between salt and
         fresh water
    2: small trout-like silvery marine or freshwater food fishes of
       cold northern waters
    v 1: extract (metals) by heating
    

Smell \Smell\ (sm[e^]l), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Smelled}, {Smelt};
   p. pr. & vb. n. {Smelling}.] [OE. smellen, smillen, smullen;
   cf. LG. smellen, smelen, sm["o]len, schmelen, to smoke, to
   reek, D. smeulen to smolder, and E. smolder. Cf. {Smell}, n.]
   1. To perceive by the olfactory nerves, or organs of smell;
      to have a sensation of, excited through the nasal organs
      when affected by the appropriate materials or qualities;
      to obtain the scent of; as, to smell a rose; to smell
      perfumes.
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   2. To detect or perceive, as if by the sense of smell; to
      scent out; -- often with out. "I smell a device." --Shak.
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            Can you smell him out by that?        --Shak.
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   3. To give heed to. [Obs.]
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            From that time forward I began to smellthe Word of
            God, and forsook the school doctors.  --Latimer.
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   {To smell a rat}, to have a sense of something wrong, not
      clearly evident; to have reason for suspicion. [Colloq.]
      

   {To smell out}, to find out by sagacity. [Colloq.]
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Smelt \Smelt\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Smelted}; p. pr. & vb. n.
   {Smelting}.] [Of foreign origin; cf. Sw. sm[aum]lta, D.
   smelten, Dan. smelte, Icel. smelta, G. schmelzen OHG.
   smelzan, smelzen; probably akin to Gr. ?????. Cf. {Enamel},
   {Melt}, {Mute}, v. i., {Smalt}.] (Metal.)
   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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Smelt \Smelt\,
   imp. & p. p. of {Smell}.
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Smelt \Smelt\, n. [AS. smelt, smylt; akin to Dan. smelt.]
   1. (Zool.) 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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   Note: The most important species are the European smelt
         ({Osmerus eperlans}) (called also {eperlan},
         {sparling}, and {spirling}), the Eastern American smelt
         ({Osmerus mordax}), the California smelt ({Osmerus
         thalichthys}), and the surf smelt ({Hypomesus olidus}).
         The name is loosely applied to various other small
         fishes, as the lant, the California tomcod, the spawn
         eater, the silversides.
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   2. Fig.: A gull; a simpleton. [Obs.] --Beau. & Fl.
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   {Sand smelt} (Zool.), the silverside.
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25 Moby Thesaurus words for "smelt":
      carve, chisel, colliquate, convert, cultivate, defrost, extract,
      flux, fuse, grow, harvest, machine, melt, melt down, mill, mine,
      process, pump, raise, rear, refine, render, run, thaw, unfreeze