1. Small trout-like silvery marine or freshwater food fishes of cold northern waters
   "In some areas, people enjoy ice fishing for smelt"
    
2. Small cold-water silvery fish; migrate between salt and fresh water
   "We enjoyed fried smelt as a crispy appetizer"

1. Extract (metals) by heating
   "The workers smelted iron ore in the furnace"

1. Perceive odours through the nose
   "She smelled the roses"; "He smelled something burning in the kitchen"
    
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: smelting, smelted, smelts

See also: stink up

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

Part of: family Osmeridae, Osmeridae

Encyclopedia: Smelt, William