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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Ore \Ore\ ([=o]r), noun [AS. [=a]r.] Honor; grace; favor; mercy; clemency; happy augury. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Ore \Ore\, noun [AS. [=o]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) 2.0 [wn]:
ore
noun
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
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
26 Moby Thesaurus words for "ore": argentite, arsenopyrite, bauxite, chalcocite, cinnabar, crude, galena, iron ore, ironstone, limonite, lodestone, magnetite, mineral, mineral-bearing material, mispickel, pyrite, raw material, rich ore, rich vein, rough diamond, siderite, stibnite, unanalyzed mass, unlicked cub, untreated mineral, virgin soil
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