| smelling salts | A hydroalcoholic solution containing approximately 2% ammonia and 4% ammonium carbonate and the aromatics: lemon oil, lavender oil, and myristica oil. Used mainly by inhalation to produce reflex stimulation in persons who have fainted or are at risk of syncope. Synonym: sal volatile, smelling salts. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| 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 European smelt (Osmerus eperlans) (called also eperlan, sparling, and spirling), the Eastern American smelt (O. Mordax), the California smelt (O. Thalichthys), and the surf smelt (Hypomesus olidus). The name is loosely applied to various other small fishes, as the lant, the California tomcod, the spawn eater, the silverside. 2. A gull; a simpleton. <zoology> Sand smelt, the silverside. Origin: AS. Smelt, smylt; akin to Dan. Smelt. <chemistry> 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. Origin: Of foreign origin; cf. Sw. Smalta, D. Smelten, Dan. Smelte, Icel. Smelta, G. Schmelzen OHG. Smelzan, smelzen; probably akin to Gr. Cf. Enamel, Melt, Mute, Smalt. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| smelter's chills | Metal fume fever, occurring in workers in zinc smelters. Synonym: smelter's chills, smelter's shakes. (05 Mar 2000) |
| smelter's fever | Metal fume fever, occurring in workers in zinc smelters. Synonym: smelter's chills, smelter's shakes. (05 Mar 2000) |
| smelter's shakes | Metal fume fever, occurring in workers in zinc smelters. Synonym: smelter's chills, smelter's shakes. (05 Mar 2000) |
| smeltie | A fish, the bib. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| smelting | From Smelt. <chemistry> Smelting furnace, a furnace in which ores are smelted or reduced. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| smerlin | <zoology> A small loach. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| smew | <zoology> Small European merganser (Mergus albellus) which has a white crest. Synonym: smee, smee duck, white merganser, and white nun. The hooded merganser. Origin: Perhaps for ice-mew. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |