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Webster's Dictionary (1865)

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Ore

Ôre, n.

noun

n. [Lat. orca, allied to Gr. ὄρυξ; It., Sp., & Fr. orca, O. Fr. orgue.] (Ichth.) A kind of fish; the grampus. See GRAMPUS. [Written also ork.]

Ōre, n.

noun

n. [A-S. ōr, ōre, ōru, Icel. eyr, O. & M. H. Ger. ēr, Goth. aiz, allied to Lat. æs, æris, Skr. ajas, but not to N. H. Ger. erz, O. H. Ger. aruzi. Cf. ORA.]

  1. The compound of a metal and some other substance, as oxygen, sulphur, or arsenic, called its mineralizer, by which its properties are disguised or lost. Metals found free from such combination, and exhibiting naturally their appropriate character, are not called ores, but native metals.
  2. (Mining.) The ore of a metal with the stone in which it occurs, after it has been picked over to throw out what is quite worthless.
  3. Metal; as, the liquid ore. Milton.