Furnace /(?)/

Fur·nace

Furnace

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

Phrases & Compounds
Bustamente furnace
a shaft furnace for roasting quicksilver ores.
Furnace bridge
Same as Bridge wall.
Furnace cadmiam
the oxide of zinc which accumulates in the chimneys of furnaces smelting zinciferous ores.
Furnace hoist
a lift for raising ore, coal, etc., to the mouth of a blast furnace.

Furnace

n.
  1. To throw out, or exhale, as from a furnace; also, to put into a furnace. [Obs. or R.]
    He furnaces The thick sighs from him.