- (n.) A place or time of punishment, affiction or great trial; severe experience or discipline.
- (n.) To throw out or exhale, as from a furnace; also, to put into a 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.; as, an iron furnace; a hot-air furnace; a glass furnace; a boiler furnace, etc.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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