meaning of ore
1. Honor; grace; favor; mercy; clemency; happy augry.
2. 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).
3. 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.
4. Metal; as, the liquid ore.
5. a monetary subunit in Denmark and Norway and Sweden; 100 ore equal 1 krona
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