Definition of ore

• n. - Honor; grace; favor; mercy; clemency; happy augry.
• 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; as, the liquid ore.