Kiln: alternatives and connections

A chamber or apartment before the chief apartment and leading into it, in which persons wait for audience; an outer chamber. See Lobby.

A furnace or oven for fritting materials for glass making.

To prepare, as food, by cooking in a dry heat, either in an oven or under coals, or on heated stone or metal; as, to bake bread, meat,…

The act or process of cooking in an oven, or of drying and hardening by heat or cold.

A furnace or stove in which the fuel is contained in a hopper or chamber, and is fed to the fire as the lower stratum is consumed.

One of the sloping sides of the lower part of a blast furnace; also, one of the hollow iron or brick sides of the bed of a puddling or…

Bricks, collectively, as designating that kind of material; as, a load of brick; a thousand of brick.

A kind of oven, or reverberatory furnace, used for the calcination of sand and potash, and converting them into frit.

A chamber, or instrument having a chamber. Specifically: The camera obscura when used in photography. See Camera, and Camera obscura.

A compartment or cell; an inclosed space or cavity; as, the chamber of a canal lock; the chamber of a furnace; the chamber of the eye.

A table stove or small furnace, usually a cylindrical box of sheet iron, with a grate at the bottom, and an open top.

That which damps or checks; as: (a) A valve or movable plate in the flue or other part of a stove, furnace, etc., used to check or reg…

Adapted or tending to exhaust moisture; as, a drying wind or day; a drying room.

Having the quality of drying up; causing a drying up.

Fuel in a state of combustion, as on a hearth, or in a stove or a furnace.

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

Vaulted like an oven or furnace; arched.

A kind of open stove introduced by Benjamin Franklin, the peculiar feature of which was that a current of heated air was directly supp…