Definition of Furnece
Fur"nace (?), n. [OE. fornais,
forneis, OF. fornaise, F. fournaise, from L.
fornax; akin to furnus oven, and prob. to E. 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.
&fist; 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, affiction,
or great trial; severe experience or discipline. Deut. iv.
20.
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.
Fur"nace, 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. Shak.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
- A device for heating.
- A device that heats materials being processed in a factory.
- A device that provides heat for a building.
- Any area that is excessively hot.
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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