SMELT

smelt

(noun) small trout-like silvery marine or freshwater food fishes of cold northern waters

smelt

(noun) small cold-water silvery fish; migrate between salt and fresh water

smelt

(verb) extract (metals) by heating

SMELL

smell, smell out, sense

(verb) become aware of not through the senses but instinctively; “I sense his hostility”; “I smell trouble”; “smell out corruption”

smell

(verb) emit an odor; “The soup smells good”

smell

(verb) smell bad; “He rarely washes, and he smells”

smell

(verb) inhale the odor of; perceive by the olfactory sense

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology 1

Noun

smelt (plural smelts)

Any small anadromous fish of the family Osmeridae, found in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans and in lakes in North America and northern part of Europe.

(obsolete) A fool; a simpleton.

Etymology 2

Verb

smelt

simple past tense and past participle of smell

Etymology 3

Noun

smelt (plural smelts)

Production of metal, especially iron, from ore in a process that involves melting and chemical reduction of metal compounds into purified metal.

Any of the various liquids or semi-molten solids produced and used during the course of such production.

Verb

smelt (third-person singular simple present smelts, present participle smelting, simple past and past participle smelted)

to fuse or melt two things into one, especially in order to extract metal from ore; to meld

Anagrams

• melts

Source: Wiktionary

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Smelt, imp. & p. p.

Definition: of Smell.

Smelt, n. Etym: [AS. smelt, smylt; akin to Dan. smelt.]

1. (Zoöl.)

Definition: 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.

Note: The most important species are the European smelt (Osmerus eperlans) (called also eperlan, sparling, and spirling), the Eastern American smelt (O. mordax), the California smelt (O. 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 silverside.

2. Fig.: A gull; a simpleton. [Obs.] eau & Fl. Sand smelt (Zoöl.), the silverside.

Smelt, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Smelted; p. pr. & vb. n. Smelting.] Etym: [Of foreign origin; cf. Sw. smälta, D. smelten, Dan. smelte, Icel. smelta, G. schmelzen OHG. smelzan, smelzen; probably akin to Gr. Enamel, Melt, Mute, v. i., Smalt.] (Metal.)

Definition: 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.

SMELL

Smell, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Smelled, Smelt (; p. pr. & vb. n. Smelling.] Etym: [OE. smellen, smillen, smullen; cf. LG. smellen, smelen, smölen, 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.

2. To detect or perceive, as if by the sense of smell; to scent out;

– often with out. "I smell a device." Shak. Can you smell him out by that Shak.

3. To give heed to. [Obs.] From that time forward I began to smellthe Word of God, and forsook the school doctors. Latimer. 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.]

Smell, v. i.

1. To affect the olfactory nerves; to have an odor or scent; -- often followed by of; as, to smell of smoke, or of musk.

2. To have a particular tincture or smack of any quality; to savor; as, a report smells of calumny. Praises in an enemy are superfluous, or smell of craft. Milton.

3. To exercise the sense of smell. Ex. xxx. 38.

4. To exercise sagacity. Shak.

Smell, n. Etym: [OE. smel, smil, smul, smeol. See Smell, v. t.] (Physiol.)

1. The sense or faculty by which certain qualities of bodies are perceived through the instrumentally of the olfactory nerves. See Sense.

2. The quality of any thing or substance, or emanation therefrom, which affects the olfactory organs; odor; scent; fragrance; perfume; as, the smell of mint. Breathing the smell of field and grove. Milton. That which, above all others, yields the sweetest smell in the air, is the violent. Bacon.

Syn.

– Scent; odor; perfume; fragrance.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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