smelting

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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Smelting \Smelt"ing\,
   a. & n. from {Smelt}.
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   {Smelting furnace} (Metal.), a furnace in which ores are
      smelted or reduced.
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73 Moby Thesaurus words for "smelting":
      architecture, assembly, blazing, blistering, branding, building,
      burning, calcination, carbonization, casting, cauterization,
      cautery, cineration, combustion, composition, concremation,
      construction, conversion, cracking, crafting, craftsmanship,
      creation, cremation, cultivation, cupellation, deflagration,
      destructive distillation, devising, distillation, distilling,
      elaboration, erection, extraction, fabrication, fashioning,
      flaming, formation, forming, formulation, framing, growing,
      handicraft, handiwork, harvesting, incineration, machining, making,
      manufacture, manufacturing, milling, mining, molding, oxidation,
      oxidization, parching, prefabrication, preparation, processing,
      producing, pyrolysis, raising, refining, scorching, scorification,
      searing, self-immolation, shaping, singeing, suttee, the stake,
      thermogenesis, vesication, workmanship