- 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. - A gull; a simpleton.
3 . Smelt
[ v. i.]
- 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.