Smelt

8 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Smelt \Smelt\,
     imp. & p. p. of {Smell}.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  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 : extract (metals) by heating

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  smell
       n 1: the sensation that results when olfactory receptors in the
            nose are stimulated by particular chemicals in gaseous
            form; "she loved the smell of roses" [syn: {odor}, {odour},
             {olfactory sensation}, {olfactory perception}]
       2: any property detected by the olfactory system [syn: {olfactory
          property}, {aroma}, {odor}, {odour}, {scent}]
       3: the general atmosphere of a place or situation and the
          effect that it has on people; "the feel of the city
          excited him"; "a clergyman improved the tone of the
          meeting"; "it had the smell of treason" [syn: {spirit}, {tone},
           {feel}, {feeling}, {flavor}, {flavour}, {look}]
       4: the faculty of smell [syn: {sense of smell}, {olfaction}, {olfactory
          modality}]
       5: the act of perceiving the odor of something [syn: {smelling}]
       v 1: inhale the odor of; perceive by the olfactory sense
       2: emit an odor; "The soup smells good"
       3: smell bad; "He rarely washes, and he smells"
       [also: {smelt}]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  smelt
       See {smell}

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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