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A large stove or oven; a furnace of brick or stone, or a heated chamber, for the purpose of hardening, burning, or drying anything; as, a kiln for baking or hardening earthen vessels; a kiln for drying grain, meal, lumber, etc.; a kiln for calcining limestone.

To furnish food to; to entertain with the fare of the kitchen. [Obs.] Shak.

A contrivance, usually of brass or iron, and furnished with points, worn to protect the hand, to add force to a blow, and to disfigure the person struck; as, brass knuckles; -- called also knuckle duster. [Slang.] Knuckle joint (Mach.), a hinge joint, in which a projection with an eye, on one piece, enters a jaw betwee…

Among furriers, any of several Asiatic minks; esp., Putorius sibiricus, the yellowish brown pelt of which is valued, esp. for the tail, used for making artists' brushes. Trade names for the fur are red sable and Tatar sable.

from the Bell process in using manganese as well as iron oxide, and performed in a Pernot furnace. Called also the Bell-Krupp process.

Furnished with lips; as, a labial organ pipe.

Rent; torn; mangled; as, a lacerated wound. By each other's fury lacerate Southey.

Furrowed or pitted; having shallow cavities or lacunæ; as, a lacunose leaf.

A vessel to carry liquid metal from the furnace to the mold.

Composed of, or furnished with, thin plates or scales. See Illust. of Antennæ.

nts or cries; lamentation; a wailing; a moaning; a weeping. Torment, and loud lament, and furious rage. Milton.

. A steam boiler having two flues which contain the furnaces and extend through the boiler from end to end.

To pierce with a lance, or with any similar weapon. Seized the due victim, and with fury lanced Her back. Dryden.

An iron bar used for tapping a melting furnace. Knight. Lancet arch (Arch.), a pointed arch, of which the width, or span, is narrow compared with the height. -- Lancet architecture, a name given to a style of architecture, in which lancet arches are common; -- peculiar to England and 13th century. -- Lancet fish. (Zo…

The ground left unplowed between furrows; any one of several portions into which a field is divided for convenience in plowing.

To furnish with a lantern; as, to lantern a lighthouse.

To lay together one over another, as fleeces or slivers for further working. To lap boards, shingles, etc., to lay one partly over another. -- To lap timbers, to unite them in such a way as to preserve the same breadth and depth throughout, as by scarfing. Weale.

Furnished with lapels.

ge. To laugh at follies, or to lash at vice. Dryden. To lash out, to strike out wildly or furiously.

To close, as an opening, with latticework; to furnish with a lattice; as, to lattice a window. To lattice up, to cover or inclose with a lattice. Therein it seemeth he [Alexander] hath latticed up Cæsar. Sir T. North.