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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Ore \Ore\ ([=o]r), n. [AS. [=a]r.]
Honor; grace; favor; mercy; clemency; happy augry. [Obs.]
--Chaucer.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Ore \Ore\, n. [AS. [=a]ra; cf [=a]r brass, bronze, akin to OHG.
[=e]r, G. ehern brazen, Icel. eir brass, Goth. ais, L. aes,
Skr. ayas iron. [root]210. Cf {Ora}, {Era}.]
1. 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).
2. (Mining) 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.
3. Metal; as the liquid ore. [R.] --Milton.
{Ore hearth}, a low furnace in which rich lead ore is
reduced; -- also called {Scotch hearth}. --Raymond.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
ore
n 1: a metal-bearing mineral valuable enough to be mined
2: a monetary subunit in Denmark and Norway and Sweden; 100 ore
equal 1 krona
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