smelt

Any of various small silvery marine, freshwater, and anadromous food fishes of the family Osmeridae, found in cold waters of the Northern Hemisphere, especially Osmerus mordax of North America and O. eperlanus of Europe.

To melt or fuse (ores) in order to separate the metallic constituents.

To melt or fuse. Used of ores.

Any one of various small fishes.

A gull; a simpleton.

To fuse; melt; specifically, to treat (ore) in the large way, and chiefly in a furnace or by the aid of heat, for the purpose of separating the contained metal.

To fuse; melt; dissolve.

imp. & p. p. of smell.