smelt
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- n small cold-water silvery fish; migrate between salt and fresh water
- n small trout-like silvery marine or freshwater food fishes of cold northern waters
- v extract (metals) by heating
- v inhale the odor of; perceive by the olfactory sense
- v emit an odor
- v smell bad
- v have an element suggestive (of something)
- v become aware of not through the senses but instinctively
- The Lake Michigan smelt had discovered a spawning ground in Crystal Lake, at the end of Cold Creek.
- Bluegills, crappies, smelt, muskellunge (muskies), whitefish, grayling, skipjacks, sunfish, brown and rainbow trout, and even eels are fair game for the ice fishermen; on .
- The smelt takes its name not from its peculiar cucumber-like smell but from Anglo-Saxon smeolt ("bright and shining").