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n. A mineral or an aggregate of minerals from which a valuable constituent, especially a metal, can be profitably mined or extracted.

n. Rock that contains utilitarian materials; primarily a rock containing metals or gems which -- at the time of the rock's evaluation and proposal for extraction -- are able to be separated from its neighboring minerals and processed at a cost that does not exceed those materials' present-day economic values.

n. Honor; grace; favor; mercy; clemency; happy augury.

n. The native form of a metal, whether free and uncombined, as gold, copper, etc., or combined, as iron, lead, etc. Usually the ores contain the metals combined with oxygen, sulphur, arsenic, etc. (called mineralizers).

n. A native metal or its compound with the rock in which it occurs, after it has been picked over to throw out what is worthless.

n. Metal.

n. A metalliferous mineral of rock, especially one which is of sufficient value to be mined.

n. Metal; sometimes, specifically, a precious metal, as gold.

n. See the qualifying words.

n. A Middle English form of oar.

n. Favor; grace; mercy; clemency; protection.

n. Honor; glory.

n. A seaweed, especially Fucus vesiculosus or Laminaria digitata. Compare ore-weed.

n. A kind of fine wool.

n. One of the walls which surround the hearth of a Catalan forge.

n. In the metallurgical treatment of the residue from burning off the sulphur of pyrites in the manufacture of sulphuric acid this material is mixed with common salt, roasted in a suitable furnace with free access of air, and, after cooling, leached with water to extract salts of copper. The dark-red oxid of iron which is left from the leaching is known as purple ore or blue billy. It is reduced to pulverulent metallic iron and used to precipitate copper from the solution obtained in the leaching.

n. Abbreviations of Oregon.

n. a mineral that contains metal that is valuable enough to be mined

n. a monetary subunit in Denmark and Norway and Sweden; 100 ore equal 1 krona

"This ore is the foundation material for our blast furnace operations at Sydney, Nova Scotia, and is also exported for use in the steel plants of the British Isles and of Germany."

ored    ores    oring   

fractional monetary unit    subunit   

graphic ore    pottern ore    float-ore    mock ore    specular ore    clinton ore    ore reserve    purple ore    ore in sight    round ore   

honor    grace    favor    mercy    clemency    metal    mineral    mine    chat    float   

Boer    Bohr    C4    Dior    Dore    Flore    Fore    Gabor    Gore    Igor   

mineral    coal    copper    oxide    salt    grain    clay    fuel    gravel    cotton