- to fuse or melt (ore) in order to separate the metal contained.
- to obtain or refine (metal) in this way.
- any of various small, silvery food fishes of the family Osmeridae, of cold northern waters, as the North American rainbow smelt, Osmerus mordax.
- any of several superficially similar but unrelated fishes, especially certain silversides, of California.
- a simple past tense and past participle of smell.
- to extract (a metal) from (an ore) by heating
- any marine or freshwater salmonoid food fish of the family Osmeridae, such as Osmerus eperlanus of Europe, having a long silvery body and occurring in temperate and cold northern waters
- a past tense and past participle of smell
