CALEFACTORY

a. n.

3 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
a.

Making hot; producing or communicating heat.

2.
n.

An apartment in a monastery, warmed and used as a sitting room.

3.
n.

A hollow sphere of metal, filled with hot water, or a chafing dish, placed on the altar in cold weather for the priest to warm his hands with.


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