[f. prec. sb.]
1. a. trans. To exhale like a furnace. b. intr. To issue as from a furnace.
1598. Chapman, Achilles Shield, Ep. Ded. A iv b. That raging vlcer, which Furnaceth the vniuersall sighes and complaintes of this transposed world.
1611. Shaks., Cymb., I. vi. 66.
He furnaces | |
The thicke sighes from him. |
1624. Quarles, Div. Poems, Sions Sonn., xx. Represse those flames, that furnace from thine eye.
2. trans. To subject to the heat of a furnace.
1612. [see the vbl. sb.].
1842. T. Graham, Chem., v. 474. It has been proposed, instead of furnacing the sulphate of soda, to decompose it by caustic barytes.
1876. Catal. Sci. App. S. Kens., No. 2726. This mixture is furnaced during a period of 53/4 hours.
fig. 1790. J. Williams, Shrove Tuesday (1794), 33. The faithful must be damnd before they die, And, like th asbestos, furnacd to be white.
1848. Lowell, Fable for Critics, Poet. Wks. 1890, III. 50. Every word that he speaks has been fierily furnaced In the blast of a life that has struggled in earnest.
3. To make a furnace in.
1833. [see CHIMNEY v.].
Hence Furnaced ppl. a., in quot. fig.; Furnacing vbl. sb., also attrib. Also Furnacer.
1612. Sturtevant, Metallica (1854), 58. All kinde of ouens, lamps, stoues, kilnes, hearths, all which we generally comprehend vnder the name of Furnacing. Ibid., 59. Furnacing may be briefly touched as being a necessarie instrument in most Inuentions.
1853. Ure, Dict. Arts, II. 680. The dexterous management of this transposition characterizes a good soda-furnacer.
1862. H. C. Kendall, Fainting by Way, 5, Poems, 20. Furnaced waste lands like to stony billows rolled. Ibid. (1869), Glen of Arrawatta, 167. In soft Australian nights; And through the furnaced noons.
1880. J. Lomas, Alkali Trade, 4. Nothing is of greater importance than that the manufacturer should be perfectly au fait with his processesable, if need be, to take the tool out of a workmans hand and perform the furnacing operation himself.