furnace bridge

A barrier of fire-bricks, or of iron plates containing water, thrown acro the furnace at the extreme end of the fire-bars, to prevent the fuel being carried into the flues, and to quicken the draft by contracting the area. *furnace-burning, a. Hot, like a furnace. "My furnace - burning heart." Shakesp .: Henry VI., Pt . III ., ii. 1. furnace cadmia, furnace calamine, s . Metall.: An incrustation of oxide of zinc, with impurities, which forms round the throat of an iron IMG:content-0245.png:[blocks in formation] "It has been proposed instead of furnacing the sul. phate of soda, to decompose it by caustic baryta."Graham: Chemistry (2d ed.), i. 561, 2. To exhale like a furnace. "He furnaces The thick sighs from him." Shakesp.: Cymbeline, i. 6. für-na-ri-næ, s. pl. [Mod. Latin furnarius (q.v.), and Lat. fem. pl. adj. suff. -inæ .] Ornith.: A sub-family of Certhide (Creepers). The outer toe is not much longer than the inner one, and but slightly united at the base, the inner one is entirely free. The sub-family consists of small birds occurring in South America and the West Indies. für-när-I-ŭs, s . [Lat. a baker.] Ornith.: The typical genus of the sub-family Furnarinse (q. v.). Furnarius fuliginosus is noted for its tamene . *fur-neye, v. t . [O. Fr. furnir , fornir ; Fr. four nir =to furnish (q. v.).] To furnish, to prepare, to provide. "Furneye a tree, stiff and strong." Richard Cœur de Lion, 5,517. *für'-ni-ment, *für-na-ment, s. [Fr. fourni ment a stand of arms; fournir = to furnish.] Fur nishing, furniture, equipment. "Lo! where they stryde with speedie whirling pace, One in a charet of straunge furniment." Spenser: F. Q., IV. iii. 38. für'-nish, v . t . & i. [Fr. four nis sant , pr. par. of fournir to furnish, from O. H. Ger. frumjan = to perform, to furnish, fruma utility, profit, gain; Sp. & Port. fornir ; Ital. fornire .] A. Transitive : 1. To supply with what is nece ary or useful; to equip; to fit out. ""Tis now but four o'clock; we have two hours To furnish us." Shakesp.: Merchant of Venice , ii. 4. sin, as; expect, Xenophon, exist. ph = f. The American Dictionary and Cyclopedia furnish 2. To fit up; to supply with nece ary and ornamental appendages. "The apartments [of the palaces erected in the reign of Elizabeth are lofty and enormous, and they knew not how to furnish them."-Walpole: Anecdotes of Painting , vol. ii., ch. i. 3. To supply, to give, to afford, to present. "The simplicity and plainne of the gospel could po ibly furnish no materials for strife."- South : Sermons, vol. iii., ser. 14. B. In trans.: To fill out; to improve in strength and appearance. ( Slang .) *für'-nish, 8. [FURNISH, v .] A specimen, a sample, a supply. "To lend the world a furnish of wit." Greene: Groatsworth of Wit . (1621.) für'-nished, pa . par . & a. [FURNISH, ν.] A. As pa . par .: (See the verb.) B. As adjective : 1. Ord. Lang.: Provided, equipped, or supplied with nece aries; fitted up. 2. Her .: An epithet applied to a horse borne bridled, saddled, and completely caparisoned. *für'-nished-ne , s. [Eng. furnished; -ne .] The quality or state of being furnished or provided with nece aries. "In respect of the fulne and well furnished ne of the earth."-More: Appendix to the Defence, ch. iv.