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ne, 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 dry in a kiln; as, to kiln-dry meal or grain. Mortimer.

The mouth or opening of an oven or kiln. Shak.

A kiln, or furnace, in which bricks are baked or burnt; or a pile of green bricks, laid loose, with arches underneath to receive the wood or fuel for burning them.

A kiln or furnace in which limestone or shells are burned and reduced to lime.

sand, etc., molded into a regular form, usually rectangular, and sun-dried, or burnt in a kiln, or in a heap or stack called a clamp. The Assyrians appear to have made much less use of bricks baked in the furnace than the Babylonians. Layard.

arbon prepared from vegetable or animal substances; esp., coal made by charring wood in a kiln, retort, etc., from which air is excluded. It is used for fuel and in various mechanical, artistic, and chemical processes.

A mass composed of several bricks run together by the action of the fire in the kiln.

A hop-drying kiln; an oast. Knight.

l charred, or depriver of its bitumen, sulphur, or other volatile matter by roasting in a kiln or oven, or by distillation, as in gas works. It is lagerly used where [Written also coak.] Gas coke, the coke formed in gas retorts, as distinguished from that made in ovens.

To subject to intense heat; to bake; to burn in a kiln; as, to fire pottery.

the sandstone at the top of the upper greensand in the south of England, used for lining kilns and furnaces. Ure.

The process of partly vitrifying pottery by exposing it to intense heat in a kiln.

An oven in which glazed pottery is fired; -- also called glaze kiln, or glaze.

A large conical brick structure around which the firing kilns are grouped. Knight.

A kiln. [Obs.]

A kiln. [Obs.] Fuller.

ck, a long, slender brick, used in making the floor on which malt is placed in the drying kiln. Lath nail a slender nail for fastening laths.

planks, staves, hoops, etc.; esp., that which is smaller than heavy timber. [U.S.] Lumber kiln, a room in which timber or lumber is dried by artificial heat. [U.S.] -- Lumber room, a room in which unused furniture or other lumber is kept. [U.S.] -- Lumber wagon, a heavy rough wagon, without springs, used for general fa…

Barley or other grain, steeped in water and dried in a kiln, thus forcing germination until the saccharine principle has been evolved. It is used in brewing and in the distillation of whisky.