ATHANOR

n. A%th’a!n-o?r, From Ar., al-tannûr (pronounced af-tannür), and this from Hebrew “12m, a furnace, from root mûr, fire. [B, 52.] Lat., furnus phi to so pho rum (seu philosophic us compos it us, seu turritus, seu chymic us), uterus chymic us (seu spagyric us), piger Henricus. Fr., fourneau des pare eux. Ger., A can or, faute Heinz. A sort of self-feeding charcoal furnace formerly used by chemists, in which the reserve of fuel was contained in a hollow cylinder above the fire, and subsided era dually & ene combustion made papain for saeel aly as in the modern *‘ base-burning ” stove. ie name is said to h given it by Raymond Lully. [A, 1, 322.] e bea