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Definition of Furnace |
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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. A place or time of punishment, affiction, or great trial; severe experience or discipline. To throw out, or exhale, as from a furnace; also, to put into a furnace. Related Definitions: Also, An, As, Baking, Boiler, By, Combustion, Discipline, Exhale, Experience, For, From, Fuel, Furnace, Glass, Great, Heat, House, In, Inclosed, Into, Iron, Is, Melting, Of, Or, Out, Place, Pottery, Produced, Punishment, Put, Reducing, Severe, The, Throw, Time, To, Trial, Warming, Which |
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Furnace Quotations
Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot that it do singe yourself. William Shakespeare For gold is tried in the fire and acceptable men in the furnace of adversity. George Santayana Times of great calamity and confusion have been productive for the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace. The brightest thunder-bolt is elicited from the darkest storm. Charles Caleb Colton Those that go gold into the furnace will come out no worse. Mathew Henry Iron till it be thoroughly heated is incapable to be wrought; so God sees good to cast some men into the furnace of affliction, and then beats them on his anvil into what frame he pleases. Anne Bradstreet |
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Furnace Translations
furnace in Danish is ovn furnace in Dutch is kachel, oven furnace in Finnish is uuni furnace in German is Hochofen, Schmelz- furnace in Latin is fornax furnace in Norwegian is ovn furnace in Portuguese is fornalha furnace in Spanish is estufa |
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