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The period during which a blast furnace is continuously in operation.

Furnished with, or bearing, campanes, or bells.

Construction of, or furnishing with, a canal or canals. [R.]

allow, containing a wick composed of loosely twisted linen of cotton threads, and used to furnish light. How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world. Shak.

To make or furnish with cane or rattan; as, to cane chairs.

an army, or battering a town, ship, or fort; -- usually, an attack of some continuance. A furious cannonade was kept up from the whole circle of batteries on the devoted towm. Prescott.

Furnished with cannon. [Poetic] "Gilbralter's cannoned steep." M. Arnold.

To match; to mate in contest; to furnish a complement to; as, to cap text; to cap proverbs. Shak. Now I have him under girdle I'll cap verses with him to the end of the chapter. Dryden.

rawing- room car, Sleeping car, Parior caretc. , (Railroad), cars especially designed and furnished for the comfort of travelers.

Var. of Karakul, a kind of fur.

A covered vehicle for carrying passengers or for moving furniture, etc.; -- sometimes shorted into van.

A kind of inn, in the East, where caravans rest at night, being a large, rude, unfurnished building, surrounding a court. [Written also caravanserai and caravansera.]

mbination; carbon silicide. It is made by heating carbon and sand together in an electric furnace. The commercial article is dark-colored and iridescent. It is harder than emery, and is used as an abrasive.

A disease of horses, on which the mouth is so furred that the afflicted animal can not eat.

To cover with, or as with, a carpet; to spread with carpets; to furnish with a carpet or carpets. Carpeted temples in fashionable squares. E. Everett.

A military pass for a soldier on furlough.

Of, pertaining to, or like, a caruncle; furnished with caruncles.

Furnished with, protected by, or built like, a casemate. Campbell.

s) of many species, most of which have purgative qualities. The leaves of several species furnish the senna used in medicine.

Highly carbonized iron, the direct product of the blast furnace; -- used for making castings, and for conversion into wrought iron and steel. It can not be welded or forged, is brittle, and sometimes very hard. Besides carbon, it contains sulphur, phosphorus, silica, etc.