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Furnace

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.

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Athanor 76% connected

A digesting furnace, formerly used by alchemists. It was so constructed as to maintain uniform and durable heat.

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Crematorium 76% connected

Alt. of Crematory

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Crematory 76% connected

A furnace for cremating corpses; a building containing such a furnace.

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Cupola 76% connected

A roof having a rounded form, hemispherical or nearly so; also, a ceiling having the same form. When on a large scale it is usually called dome.

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Forge 76% connected

A place or establishment where iron or other metals are wrought by heating and hammering; especially, a furnace, or a shop with its furnace, etc., wh…

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Kiln 76% connected

A large stove or oven; a furnace of brick or stone, or a heated chamber, for the purpose of hardening, burning, or drying anything; as, a kiln for ba…

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Chamber 76% connected

A retired room, esp. an upper room used for sleeping; a bedroom; as, the house had four chambers.

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Grate 70% connected

Serving to gratify; agreeable.

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Grating 70% connected

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Register 70% connected

A written account or entry; an official or formal enumeration, description, or record; a memorial record; a list or roll; a schedule.

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