noun. An enclosure in which energy in a nonthermal form is converted to heat, especially such an enclosure in which heat is generated by the combustion of a suitable fuel.

noun. An intensely hot place.

noun. A severe test or trial.

noun. A structure in which to make and maintain a fire the heat of which is to be used for some mechanical purpose, as the melting of ores or metals, the production of steam as a power, the warming of apartments, the baking of pottery, etc.; specifically, a structure of considerable size built of stone or brick, and usually lined with fire-brick, used for some purpose connected with the operation of smelting metals.

noun. Figuratively, a place, time, or occasion of severe torture or great trial.

To subject to the action of a furnace; figuratively, to heat as if in a furnace.

To throw out, as flames or dull reverberations of sound are emitted by a furnace.

To issue forth like flames from a furnace.

noun. A furnace which is continually rotated or revolved to secure thorough mixture or chemical reaction under heat as respects the charge.

noun. To throw out, or exhale, as from a furnace; also, to put into a furnace.

noun. An inclosed place in which heat is produced by the combustion of fuel, as for reducing ores or melting metals, for warming a house, for baking pottery, etc.

noun. A place or time of punishment, affiction, or great trial; severe experience or discipline.

noun. a shaft furnace for roasting quicksilver ores.

noun. Same as Bridge wall.

noun. the oxide of zinc which accumulates in the chimneys of furnaces smelting zinciferous ores.

noun. undefined

noun. a lift for raising ore, coal, etc., to the mouth of a blast furnace.

noun. A device for heating.

noun. A device that heats materials being processed in a factory.

noun. A device that provides heat for a building.

noun. Any area that is excessively hot.

verb. To heat in a furnace

noun. an enclosed chamber in which heat is produced to heat buildings, destroy refuse, smelt or refine ores, etc.

"The woody fibre of the carrots and cabbages is very combustible in the coal furnace, but it is very doubtful if more than 20 or 30 per cent. of this substance is ever burned in the _animal furnace_."

air crucible furnace  base-burning furnace  batho's furnace  belgian-silesian furnace  bicheroux's furnace  

furnace cadmia  

chamber  

athanor  blast furnace  cremation chamber  crematorium  crematory  

sternness  

boiler  burner  chimney  coal  cylinder  

Seger cone  Torrid Zone  acid kiln  atomic pile  blacksmith shop