Furnace
Furnace , noun
[Old English fornais, forneis, Old French fornaise, French fournaise, from Latin fornax; akin to furnus oven, and prob. to English forceps.]
1.
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.; as, an iron furnace; a hot-air furnace; a glass furnace; a boiler furnace, etc.
Furnaces are classified as wind or air. furnaces when the fire is urged only by the natural draught; as blast furnaces, when the fire is urged by the injection artificially of a forcible current of air; and as reverberatory furnaces, when the flame, in passing to the chimney, is thrown down by a low arched roof upon the materials operated upon.
2.
A place or time of punishment, affliction, or great trial; severe experience or discipline. — Deut. iv. 20
Collocations (4)
Bustamente furnace , a shaft furnace for roasting quicksilver ores.
Furnace bridge , Same as Bridge wall.
Furnace cadmiam or Furnace cadmia , the oxide of zinc which accumulates in the chimneys of furnaces smelting zinciferous ores. — Raymond
Furnace hoist (Iron Manufacturing) , a lift for raising ore, coal, etc., to the mouth of a blast furnace.
Furnace , noun
1.
To throw out, or exhale, as from a furnace; also, to put into a furnace. [Obsolete or Rare]
He furnaces
The thick sighs from him.