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Muffle :: Muffle (v. t.) A small oven for baking and fixing the colors of painted or printed pottery, without exposing the pottery to the flames of the furnace or kiln..

Bulldog :: Bulldog (n.) A refractory material used as a furnace lining, obtained by calcining the cinder or slag from the puddling furnace of a rolling mill..

Bosh :: Bosh (n.) The lower part of a blast furnace, which slopes inward, or the widest space at the top of this part..

Fettling :: Fettling (n.) A mixture of ore, cinders, etc., used to line the hearth of a puddling furnace..

Tutty :: Tutty (n.) A yellow or brown amorphous substance obtained as a sublimation product in the flues of smelting furnaces of zinc, and consisting of a crude zinc oxide..

Burden :: Burden (n.) The proportion of ore and flux to fuel, in the charge of a blast furnace..

Reverberatory :: Reverberatory (n.) A reverberatory furnace.

Sponge :: Sponge (n.) Iron from the puddling furnace, in a pasty condition..

Engorgement :: Engorgement (n.) The clogging of a blast furnace.

Fix :: Fix (v. t.) To line the hearth of (a puddling furnace) with fettling.

Fire :: Fire (n.) Fuel in a state of combustion, as on a hearth, or in a stove or a furnace..

Galley :: Galley (n.) An oblong oven or muffle with a battery of retorts; a gallery furnace.

Salamander :: Salamander (n.) Solidified material in a furnace hearth.

Howell :: Howell (n.) The upper stage of a porcelian furnace.

Muffle :: Muffle (v. t.) An earthenware compartment or oven, often shaped like a half cylinder, used in furnaces to protect objects heated from the direct action of the fire, as in scorification of ores, cupellation of ore buttons, etc..

Shadrach :: Shadrach (n.) A mass of iron on which the operation of smelting has failed of its intended effect; -- so called from Shadrach, one of the three Hebrews who came forth unharmed from the fiery furnace of Nebuchadnezzar. (See Dan. iii. 26, 27.).

Ash-oven :: Ash-oven (n.) A furnace or oven for fritting materials for glass making.

Base-burner :: Base-burner (n.) 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..

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

Shaft :: Shaft (n.) The chamber of a blast furnace.

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