Definitions for smelts

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smelts smelt

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IPA: /smɛlt/

Smelts is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 79 anagrams from letters in smelts (elmsst).

Definitions for smelts

noun

1. any of various small, silvery food fishes of the family Osmeridae, of cold northern waters, as the North American rainbow smelt, Osmerus mordax.
2. any of several superficially similar but unrelated fishes, especially certain silversides, of California.
3. the sense of smell; faculty of smelling.
4. the quality of a thing that is or may be smelled; odor; scent.
5. a trace or suggestion.
6. an act or instance of smelling.
7. a pervading appearance, character, quality, or influence:

verb

1. a simple past tense and past participle of smell.

Idioms

1. smell a rat. rat (def 6).

Verb phrases

1. smell out, to look for or detect as if by smelling; search out:
2. smell up, to fill with an offensive odor; stink up:

verb (used with object)

1. to fuse or melt (ore) in order to separate the metal contained.
2. to obtain or refine (metal) in this way.
3. to perceive the odor or scent of through the nose by means of the olfactory nerves; inhale the odor of:
4. to test by the sense of smell:
5. to perceive, detect, or discover by shrewdness or sagacity:

verb (used without object)

1. to perceive something by its odor or scent.
2. to search or investigate (followed by around or about).
3. to give off or have an odor or scent:
4. to give out an offensive odor; stink.
5. to have a particular odor (followed by of):
6. to have a trace or suggestion (followed by of).
7. Informal. to be of inferior quality; stink:
8. Informal. to have the appearance or a suggestion of guilt or corruption:

Origin of smelts

1535-45; probably Middle Dutch or Middle Low German smelten; cognate with German schmelzen to melt¹, smelt

Examples for smelts

The Regent, who smelt the rat, turned on his heel, and said nothing.

The Romans learned how to smelt copper into brass, then bronze, to make weapons, and suddenly war was an entirely different game.

She suffered horribly, too, in that stiff, lonely dwelling which smelt of the tomb.

With one opinion, it smelt of liquor; only no one could guess what liquor.

Mr. COX said he could not smelt a pig, but he thought he smelt a rat.

And right then I'd ought to have smelt trouble, but I didn't; had a cold in my head, I guess likely.

However, the sight of the roses, overlapping the water-jug, pacified him; they smelt so sweet.

My nostrils have smelt the horrors of the (cloth) diaper pail.

The shop, which was already three parts eaten up, smelt of ruin.

And then Marjolin declared that she smelt sweet from head to foot.