1. ore - Noun
2. Ore - Proper noun
Honor; grace; favor; mercy; clemency; happy augry.
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).
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.
Metal; as, the liquid ore.
Source: Webster's dictionaryEverything has its limit - iron ore cannot be educated into gold. Mark Twain
Times of great calamity and confusion have been productive for the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace. The brightest thunder-bolt is elicited from the darkest storm. Charles Caleb Colton
All emotions are the ore from which poetry may be sifted. T. E. Hulme
You might curb your magnanimity, and be more of an artist, and load every rift of your subject with ore. John Keats
The product of paper and printed ink, that we commonly call the book, is one of the great visible mediators between spirit and time, and, reflecting zeitgeist, lasts as long as ore and stone. Johann Georg Hamann
Religion lives not by the force and aid of dogma, but because it is ingrained in the nature of man. ...the moulds have been broken and reconstructed over and over again, but the molten ore abides in the ladle of humanity. John Tyndall