"Hypocaust" is a word in ENGLISH
A furnace, esp. one connected with a series of small
chambers and flues of tiles or other masonry through which the heat of
a fire was distributed to rooms above. This contrivance, first used in
bath, was afterwards adopted in private houses.
And no wonder; for the new technique of "subliminal projection," as it was called, was intimately associated with mass entertainment, and in the life of civilized human beings massed entertainment now plays a part comparable to that played in the Middle Ages be religion.
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A kind of furnace used in refining, to separate the metal from cinders and other foreign matter.
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Read the complete definitionA furnace or oven for fritting materials for glass making.
Read the complete definitionA digesting furnace, formerly used by alchemists. It was so constructed as to maintain uniform and durable heat.
Read the complete definitionbalagahán - (H) Live coals, furnace, brazier. (cf. bága).
Read the complete definitionbalagangán, balagángan - Oven, stove, furnace, hearth. (cf. bagáng, dapóg, sun-adán, dalúnghan, lulutuán).
Read the complete definitionTo heat in a furnace and form into balls for rolling.
Read the complete definitionA furnace or stove in which the fuel is contained in a hopper or chamber, and is fed to the …
Read the complete definitionA ferruginous hydrate of alumina. It is largely used in the preparation of aluminium and alumina, and for the lining …
Read the complete definitionA forcible stream of air from an orifice, as from a bellows, the mouth, etc. Hence: The continuous blowing to …
Read the complete definitionA mass of wrought iron from the Catalan forge or from the puddling furnace, deprived of its dross, and shaped …
Read the complete definitionA furnace and forge in which wrought iron in the form of blooms is made directly from the ore, or …
Read the complete definitionA device for producing a current of air; as: (a) A metal plate temporarily placed before the upper part of …
Read the complete definitionThe round hole in the furnace of a glass manufactory through which the fused glass is taken out.
Read the complete definitionThe lower part of a blast furnace, which slopes inward, or the widest space at the top of this part.
Read the complete definitionOne of the sloping sides of the lower part of a blast furnace; also, one of the hollow iron or …
Read the complete definitionThe front of a furnace.
Read the complete definitionA kiln, or furnace, in which bricks are baked or burnt; or a pile of green bricks, laid loose, with …
Read the complete definitionA low wall or vertical partition in the fire chamber of a furnace, for deflecting flame, etc.; -- usually called …
Read the complete definitionA refractory material used as a furnace lining, obtained by calcining the cinder or slag from the puddling furnace of …
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