furnace
furnace is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 3 senses, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.A place or time of punishment, affiction, or great trial; severe experience or discipline. Deut. iv.
- 2.Bustamente furnace, a shaft furnace for roasting quicksilver ores. -- Furnace bridge, Same as Bridge wall. See Bridge, n., 5. -- Furnace cadmiam or cadmia, the oxide of zinc which accumulates in the chimneys of furnaces smelting zinciferous ores. Raymond. -- Furnace hoist (Iron Manuf.), a lift for raising ore, coal, etc., to the mouth of a blast furnace.
- 3.To throw out, or exhale, as from a furnace; also, to put into a furnace. [Obs. or R.] He furnaces The thick sighe from him. Shak.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- air
- alembic
- alveary
- andiron
- area
- armory
- atelier
- athanor
- backlog
- bakehouse
- bath
- beauty
- beehive
- bindery
- boiler
- branch
- brasier
- bureau
- burner
- business
- cabinet
- caboose
- caldron
- camboose
- cannery
- central
- chamber
- coal
- combustion
- conservatory
- convective
- cracker
- crucible
- dock
- dockyard
- electric
- factory
- fiery
- fire
- fireplace
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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