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1. Smelt
   A rich and oily mild-flavored fish. Popular varieties of smelt include 'Eulachon' and 'Whitebait.' The eulachon is called the 'candlefish' because Indians sometimes run a wick through their high-fat flesh and use them for candles.
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2. Smelt
   Waters:Northern Atlantic and Pacific Waters (during spawning season smelt migrate to fresh Waters) Description (in water): This slender, nearly translucent silver-green fish averages 6 to 8 inches in length and weighs less than half a pound. Description (in market): The off-white flesh of the smelt is soft and oily with a mild, delicate flavor. The bones are soft and edible (they soften more when cooked).
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3. smelt
   Waters:Atlantic and Pacific coasts Description (in water): 'Whitebait' is a general name for juvenile fish of various species and families (particularly the herring family). They are usually under 2 inches in length and have white, translucent, or silvery skin Description (in market): These fish are generally eaten whole (head and viscera included). They have a rich, strong flavor, soft texture, and high fat content.
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4. smelt
   [n] - small cold-water silvery fish 2. [n] - small trout-like silvery marine or freshwater food fishes of cold northern waters 3. [v] - extract (metals) by heating
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5. smelt
   Molten slag; in the pulp and paper industry, the cooking chemicals tapped from the recovery boiler as molten material and dissolved in the smelt tank as green liquor.
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6. Smelt
   Smelt imperfect & past participle of Smell .
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7. Smelt
   Smelt noun [ Anglo-Saxon smelt , smylt ; akin to Danish smelt .] 1. (Zoology) Any one of numerous species of small silvery salmonoid fishes of the genus Osmerus and allied genera, which ascend rivers to spawn, ...
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8. Smelt
   Smelt transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Smelted ; present participle & verbal noun Smelting .] [ Of foreign origin; confer Swedish smälta , Dutch smelten , Danis...
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9. smelt
   1. <zoology> 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 odour and taste. ... The most important species are the Euro...
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10. smelt
    noun small trout-like silvery marine or freshwater food fishes of cold northern waters
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11. smelt
    noun small cold-water silvery fish; migrate between salt and fresh water
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12. Smelt
    • (n.) A gull; a simpleton. • (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. • (n.) Any one of numerous species of small silvery salmonoid fishes of the genus Osmerus and allied...
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13. smelt
    any of certain silvery, chiefly marine food fishes, family Osmeridae, closely related to salmon and trout and found in cold northern waters. Smelts, ... [1 related articles]
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14. smelt
    Molten slag; in the pulp and paper industry, the cooking chemicals tapped from the recovery boiler as molten material and dissolved in the smelt tank as green liquor
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15. smelt
    smelt, common name for a small, slender fish of the family Osmeridae, closely allied to the grayling of the family Salmonidae (salmon family). Most species are marine, but some ascend freshwater streams to spawn and others are landlocked in lakes. The American smelt (or icefish), Osmerus mordax, ave...
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16. Smelt
    The smelt is a genus of small European fish allied to the Salmon which live in the salt water around the mouths of rivers. The common smelt (Osmerus eperlanus) is around ten to twenty centimeters long and silvery-white in colour with a greenish back. During May to August the smelt comes up river to ...
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17. smelt
    Small fish, usually marine, although some species are freshwater. They occur in Europe and North America. The most common European smelt is the sparling Osmerus eperlanus
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18. Smelt
    (fish) `Smelts` &ndash; more precisely `freshwater smelts` or `typical smelts` to distinguish them from the related Argentinidae, Bathylagidae and Retropinnidae &ndash; are a family of small fish, `Osmeridae`, found in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. They are common in the North Amer...
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