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1. Small cold-water silvery fish; migrate between salt and fresh water
    
2. Small trout-like silvery marine or freshwater food fishes of cold northern waters

1. Extract (metals) by heating

1. Inhale the odour of; perceive by the olfactory sense
    
2. Emit an odour
   "The soup smells good"
    
3. Have a bad odour
   "He rarely washes, and he smells"
    
4. Have an element suggestive (of something)
   "this passage smells of plagiarism";
   - smack, reek
    
5. Become aware of not through the senses but instinctively
   "I smell trouble"; "smell out corruption";
   - smell out, sense

Derived forms: smelted, smelts, smelting

See also: stink up

Type of: cause to be perceived, comprehend, create, evoke, fish, make, malacopterygian, paint a picture, perceive, produce, soft-finned fish, suggest

Part of: family Osmeridae, Osmeridae

Encyclopedia: Smelt, William