Ore

n.	1.	Honor; grace; favor; mercy; clemency; happy augury.
	1.
	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. Ore hearth a low furnace in which rich lead ore is reduced; - also called Scotch hearth. - Raymond.

Noun	1.	ore - a metal-bearing mineral valuable enough to be mined
	2.	ore - a monetary subunit in Denmark and Norway and Sweden; 100 ore equal 1 krona

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