Almond furnace () A kind of furnace used in refining, to separate the metal from cinders and other foreign matter. |
Ash-furnace (n.) Alt. of Ash-oven |
Boiler (n.) One who boils. |
Boiler (n.) A vessel in which any thing is boiled. |
Boiler (n.) A strong metallic vessel, usually of wrought iron plates riveted together, or a composite structure variously formed, in which steam is generated for driving engines, or for heating, cooking, or other purposes. |
Closed (imp. & p. p.) of Close |
Draft (a.) Pertaining to, or used for, drawing or pulling (as vehicles, loads, etc.). Same as Draught. |
Draft (a.) Relating to, or characterized by, a draft, or current of air. Same as Draught. |
Draft (v. t.) To draw the outline of |
Draft (v. t.) To compose and write |
Draft (v. t.) To draw from a military band or post, or from any district, company, or society |
Draft (v. t.) To transfer by draft. |
Draught (n.) The act of drawing or pulling |
Draught (n.) The act of moving loads by drawing, as by beasts of burden, and the like. |
Draught (n.) The drawing of a bowstring. |
Draught (n.) Act of drawing a net |
Draught (n.) The act of drawing liquor into the mouth and throat |
Draught (n.) A sudden attack or drawing upon an enemy. |
Draught (n.) The act of selecting or detaching soldiers |
Draught (n.) The act of drawing up, marking out, or delineating |
Draught (n.) That which is drawn |
Draught (n.) That which is taken by sweeping with a net. |
Draught (n.) The force drawn |
Draught (n.) The quantity drawn in at once in drinking |
Draught (n.) A sketch, outline, or representation, whether written, designed, or drawn |
Draught (n.) An order for the payment of money |
Draught (n.) A current of air moving through an inclosed place, as through a room or up a chimney. |
Draught (n.) That which draws |
Draught (n.) A team of oxen or horses. |
Draught (n.) A sink or drain |
Draught (n.) A mild vesicatory |
Draught (n.) Capacity of being drawn |
Draught (n.) The depth of water necessary to float a ship, or the depth a ship sinks in water, especially when laden |
Draught (n.) An allowance on weighable goods. [Eng.] See Draft, 4. |
Draught (n.) A move, as at chess or checkers. |
Draught (n.) The bevel given to the pattern for a casting, in order that it may be drawn from the sand without injury to the mold. |
Draught (n.) See Draft, n., 7. |
Draught (a.) Used for drawing vehicles, loads, etc. |
Draught (a.) Relating to, or characterized by, a draft, or current of air. |
Draught (a.) Used in making drawings |
Draught (a.) Drawn directly from the barrel, or other receptacle, in distinction from bottled |
Draught (v. t.) To draw out |
Draught (v. t.) To diminish or exhaust by drawing. |
Draught (v. t.) To draw in outline |
Forced (imp. & p. p.) of Force |
Forced (a.) Done or produced with force or great labor, or by extraordinary exertion |
Furnace (n.) 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. |
Furnace (n.) A place or time of punishment, affiction, or great trial |
Furnace (n.) To throw out, or exhale, as from a furnace |
Lacashire boiler () A steam boiler having two flues which contain the furnaces and extend through the boiler from end to end. |
forced landing emergency landing | an unscheduled airplane landing that is made under circumstances (engine failure or adverse weather) not under the pilot's control |
draft draught drawing | the act of moving a load by drawing or pulling |
closed primary | a primary in which only registered members of a particular political party can vote, closed primaries strengthen party unity |
Turkish bath steam bath vapor bath vapour bath | you sweat in a steam room before getting a rubdown and cold shower |
steam fitting | care (installation and maintenance) of equipment for ventilating or heating or refrigerating |
closed-heart surgery | heart surgery in which a small incision is made (the chest cavity is not opened) |
gulp draft draught swig | a large and hurried swallow, he finished it at a single gulp |
forced feeding gavage | feeding that consists of the delivery of a nutrient solution (as through a nasal tube) to someone who cannot or will not eat |
conscription muster draft selective service | compulsory military service |
draft animal | an animal used for pulling heavy loads |
draft horse draught horse dray horse | horse adapted for drawing heavy loads |
auxiliary boiler donkey boiler | (nautical) an extra boiler (as a ship's boiler that is used while the ship is in port) |
blast furnace | a furnace for smelting of iron from iron oxide ores, combustion is intensified by a blast of air |
boiler steam boiler | sealed vessel where water is converted to steam |
calliope steam organ | a musical instrument consisting of a series of steam whistles played from a keyboard |
closed circuit loop | a complete electrical circuit around which current flows or a signal circulates |
closed loop closed-loop system | a control system with a feedback loop that is active |
double boiler double saucepan | two saucepans, one fitting inside the other |
draft draught | a dose of liquid medicine, he took a sleeping draft |
draft rough drawing | a preliminary sketch of a design or picture |
draft | a regulator for controlling the flow of air in a fireplace |
electric furnace | any furnace in which the heat is provided by an electric current |
furnace | an enclosed chamber in which heat is produced to heat buildings, destroy refuse, smelt or refine ores, etc. |
furnace lining refractory | lining consisting of material with a high melting point, used to line the inside walls of a furnace |
furnace room | a room (usually in the basement of a building) that contains a furnace for heating the building |
gas furnace | a furnace that burns gas |
kettle boiler | a metal pot for stewing or boiling, usually has a lid |
oil burner oil furnace | a furnace that burns oil |
open-hearth furnace | a furnace for making steel in which the steel is placed on a shallow hearth and flames of burning gas and hot air play over it |
reverberatory furnace | a furnace in which the material that is being treated is heated indirectly by flames that are directed at the roof and walls of the furnace |
sleeping pill sleeping tablet sleeping capsule sleeping draught | a soporific drug in the form of a pill (or tablet or capsule) |
solar dish solar collector solar furnace | a concave mirror that concentrates the rays of the sun, can produce high temperatures |
Stassano furnace electric-arc furnace | an electric furnace in which an electric arc provides the source of heat for making steel |
steam bath steam room vapor bath vapour bath | a room that can be filled with steam in which people bathe, `vapour bath' is a British term |
steam chest | the chamber from which steam is distributed to a cylinder |
steam engine | externalombustion engine in which heat is used to raise steam which either turns a turbine or forces a piston to move up and down in a cylinder |
steam heat steam heating | a heating system in which steam is generated in boilers and piped to radiators |
steam iron | a pressing iron that can emit steam |
steam line steam pipe | a pipe conducting steam |
steam locomotive | a locomotive powered by a steam engine |
steam shovel | a power shovel that is driven by steam |
steam turbine | turbine in which steam strikes blades and makes them turn |
steam whistle | a whistle in which the sound is produced by steam, usually attached to a steam boiler |
tank furnace | furnace into one end of which a batch of measured raw materials is shoveled and from the other end molten glass is obtained |
draft draught | the depth of a vessel's keel below the surface (especially when loaded) |
mystery enigma secret closed book | something that baffles understanding and cannot be explained, how it got out is a mystery, it remains one of nature's secrets |
closed interval bounded interval | an interval that includes its endpoints |
closed couplet | a rhymed couplet that forms a complete syntactic unit |
draft draft copy | any of the various versions in the development of a written work, a preliminary draft, the final draft of the constitution |
sheriff's sale execution sale judicial sale forced sale | a sale of property by the sheriff under authority of a court's writ of execution in order satisfy an unpaid obligation |