furmenty 
In this plight did he leave Mopsa. resolved in her heart 
to be the --1-i-ati-i.t lady ill tile world, and never after to teed 
of worse Ehu/teniMnty. Sir I'. Siiliify, Arcadia, iii. 
His lips may water 
Like a puppy's o'er a fi/rnu-Ht/1 pot. 
]liisxiii : /rr. Maid of Honour, V. 1. 
I hati- din"civnt diets, ulu\furiiiiti/ anil butter, and herb 
porridge. Sif'ft, 'i'o Stella, xlii. 
funnetaryt(ler'm6-tii-ri), . Same nxfi-ittiiciilt/. 
fur-moth (fer'moth),'. The Tinea pettioneHa, 
a kind of moth which infests fur. 
furnace (fiVims), . [< TfE.J^masse,fvrney, 
1'oiinn'x, forne'ys, fornays, etc., < OF. fornais, 
fornn-, forncyx, m., fornnixc, f., F. fourimixv 
= Pr. fornatt, fonuu = OSp. formi;, Sp. //- 
na~a = It. fornace, < L. forimx (formic-), an 
oven, furnace, kibi, < fonius, fiiriins, an oven, 
connected with formns, warm.] 1. A struc- 
ture in which to make and maintain a fire the 
heat of which is to be used for some mechan- 
ical purpose, as the melting of ores or metals, 
the production of steam as a power, the warm- 
ini; of iipiirtments, the baking of pottery, etc.; 
specifically, a structure of considerable size 
built of stone or brick, and usually lined with 
fire-brick, used for some purpose connected 
with the operation of smelting metals. Fur- 
naces are constructed in a great variety of ways, accord- 
ing to the different purposes to which they are to be ap- 
plied. See air-furnace, blast-furnace, and hearth. 
righte Trouthe of Beleeve. MaudemUc, Travels, p. 35. 
As silver is melted in the midst of the furnace, so shall 
ye be melted. Ezek. xxii. 22. 
2. Figuratively, a place, time, or occasion of 
severe torture or great trial. 
Behold, I have refined thee, but not with silver; I have 
chosen thee in the furnace of affliction. Isa. xlviii. 10. 
Base-burning furnace. Seebase-burninn. Bone-black 
furnace, see bone-black. Calcining-furnace, a fur- 
nace in which the operation of calcining is performed ; 
specifically, a reverberatory furnace, with a low arch, in 
which hard lead is "softened " by exposing it to the action 
of the flame, by which the foreign metals (antimony, cop- 
per and iron) are oxidized, and collect on the surface of 
the metal in the form of dross. Also called impromny-fur- 
nace, and the process of softening is also called improving. 
Carbonizing-furnace. See carbonize. Castilian 
furnace, a circular furnace, usually about 3_feet in diame- 
ter ai 
cular 
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ir >re. The lining of the furnace is of refractory stone. 
surrounding this, with a considerable earth-packed space 
furnished 
tiace.] The typical genus of oven-birds of the 
family Rmartoda. I'ivillot, 1816. 
fications, to a limited extent in England. It requires for furn.Un.entt, f^ 1 ^ 
--- Plumbers' furnace, a portable furnace used by plunib- furnish, supply, etc.: 
crs for soldering, etc.- Regenerative furnace, a furnace 
in which the waste heat ofthe products of combustion is 
utilized by being transferred to either the air or the com- 
bustible gases, or both, entering the furnace. This trans- 
fer is effected by means of so-called "regenerators. " See 
regenerator. Reheating-furnace, a reverberatory fur- 
nace in which the puddled bars, piled in packets, are re- 
heated preparatory to rolling; a balling-furnace. Re- 
i-, fer'lia-ment), 
&^ 
Furniture ; 
equipment. 
I.o ! where they spyde with spcedie whirling pace, 
One in acharet of ittmngf\trntment. 
Speiuei; K. Q., IV. iii. MS. 
Neither the men nor the hone glistered so with gold 
nor precious furnameitts, but only with the brightnes of 
their Ilarnesse. J. Brende, tr. of Quintus Cortina, iii 
thr^/ 1 JrS:,See^nrtA.-Rlng-topfurnace,acl.ar- nire, furnish. <OHG.fru,>,jan, perform, provide, 
coal-furnace for heating smoothing-irons. It has an an- < frittna, MHG. vrttme, vrum, utility, gam, akin 
nular top, and cross-bars which can be removed at plea- ^o AS.frem,freme. profit, advantage, fremian, 
sure. K. II A"^/^- Spanish furnace, tom of re- f remman prO mote, perform, etc., wlence mod. 
verberatory furnace used 111 Spain, and especially at Ll- > ' .-! T .. 1 TV 
nares, one of the most important lead-producing districts E. frame : gee frame.] I. tians. 1. To pro- 
in the world. Its chief peculiarity is the presence of two vide; Supply: used With ('4(, and having a 
chambers, one of which is the reduction-chamber, while 
the other has a peculiar and not entirely understood ac- 
tion in checking and modifying the draft. Tank-fur- 
nace, in qlass-manuf., a furnace fitted with a tank, as dis- 
tinguishe'd from comparatively small melting-pots, to hold 
the molten glass. 
furnace (fer'nas), v. [< furnace, .] I. trans. 
1. To subject to the action of a furnace; figu- 
ratively, to heat as if in a furnace. 
M. A. Scheurer-Kestner claims to have proved that in 
the furnacing operation no soda-salts are reduced to me- 
tallic sodium. Ure, Diet., IV. 61. 
In soft Australian nights, 
And through the fumaced noons, and in the times 
personal object: as, to furnish a family with 
food ; to furnish a person with money for some 
purpose. 
He isfurnished vrith my opinion. Shak., M. of V., iv. 1. 
Let's meet there the ninth of May next, about two of 
the clock ; and I'll want nothing that a fisher should be 
furnished mth. 1. Walton, Complete Angler, p. 188. 
How might a man, furnished with Gyges's secret, em- 
ploy it in bringing together distant friends ! 
Steele, Tatler, No. 138. 
The ass is furnished with a stuffed saddle. 
E. W. Lane, Modern Egyptians, 1. 172. 
Of wind and. wet " Contemporary Rev., HI. 411. 2. To provide for use ; make or afford a provi- 
2t. To throw out, as flames or dull reverbera- "ion ofj supply; yield :^ with a thing as object: 
tioiis of sound are emitted by a furnace. 
Furnaceth the universall sighesand complaintes of this 
transposed world. Chapman, Shield of Achilles, Pref. 
Il.t intrans. To issue forth like flames from a 
furnace. 
O tell him [my absent love] that I lie 
Deep wounded with the flames that/unwM'd from his eye. 
Quarles, Emblems, v. 1. 
ter and 84 feet high, having a breast formed by a semicir- _ ... , 
cular iron pan furnished with a lip for running off the furnace-bar (fer'nas-bar), n. Same as fire-bar. 
slags and a longitudinal slot for convenience in tapping, furnace-bridge (fer'nas-brij), n. A barrier of 
. 
On the top of this cylinder, which is made of fire-brick, 
for the products of combustion. The blast is obtained by 
fire-bricks, or an iron-plate chamber filled with 
water, thrown across a furnace at the extreme 
end of the fire-bars, to prevent the fuel from 
as, to furnish arms for defense; Normandy fur- 
nishes the best draft-horses ; this fact furnishes 
a strong argument against your theory. 
A graver fact, enlisted on your side, 
May /urniih illustration, well applied. 
Cowprr, Conversation, 1. 206. 
His writings and his life furnish abundant proofs that 
he was not a man of strong sense. Macaulay. 
The history of the house of commons, on the other hand, 
furnishes some valuable illustrations of constitutional 
practice. 
a 
' 
ag 
Stubbs, Const. Hist., 368. 
is proper or suitable ; 
j , fit up or fit out; equip : 
furnish a house, a library, or an expedi- 
. , , 
means of a fan, and there are three twyers. This furnace being carried into the flues, and to quicken the tj on . t o f wrn igj l th e m ind by study and obser- 
j iio.nl iii Siiiaiii Irtr amplfimr rvior nl'f'ft of Inftfl as well as a ___ jj_ -1 ___ __ J ____ 4: __ AT, ~ . .:..,, ^f 4-1.^. Alijnn . . * * J J 
is used in Spain for smelting poor ores of lead as well as 
rich slags. It has also been introduced to a limited ex- 
tent in England. Catalan furnace or forge, a furnace _ . 
used in the French Pyrenees and in some parts of Spain furnace-DUmmg (fer nas-ber*ning), a. 
for the manufacture of wrought-iron directly from the ore. j n g or heated like a furnace. 
It consists of a quadrangular hearth, made of some fire- 
resisting material, supported by one or more small arches, 
and built against the side of a wall like the ordinary 
blacksmiths' forge. The blast is supplied by a peculiar 
draft by contracting the section of the chim- 
ney. 
- - " Burn- 
All my body's moisture 
Scarce serves to quench my furnace-burninri heart. 
Shak., 3 Hen. VI., il. 1. 
kind of blowing-machine called a trompe, in which the fumaceman (fer'nas-man), . ; pi. fumacemen 
^^^. p t^^ e ^"oiSSS!: (- men )- A man wlloteiids a furnace - 
tion-furnace. See converting -furnace. Converting- 
furnace, a form of furnace in which bar-iron is convert- 
' " ' it consists 
The furnaceman reverses his shunt valve. 
Jour. Franklin Inst., CXXIII. 474. 
ed into steel by carburization (which see). It consists ft,_,.,_,,.-4. t O OQ furnimftif 
essentially of an oblong rectangular case, called the chest fUmameiltt, . _bee furmment. 
or pot, open at the top, and inclosed within an arched furnariail (fer-na n-an), a. and n. 1. a. 1 er- Specifically 4. In ceram., to ornament with 
flve-brick chamber, with arched openings at each end, taining or related to the genus Furnarius or pj ec es molded separately and afterward at- 
i K v, .1 1 . 1 1 1 ivhii-li < mini criii (Miter 'I'll*! flri'iibirf' is under- i>__,ii i'.. . ^.^zzJfr. , * i . 1-1 i _ .*_ _ 'ii- J2 . _c 
vation. 
He was full well furnynshed of body and of membres, 
and a grete gentilman on his moder be-halue. 
Merlin (E. E. T. S.), iii. 406. 
He was furnished like a hunter. 
Shak., As you Like it, iii. 2. 
And being all approached, there commeth one of the 
Santones mounted on a Camell vie]l furnished, who at the 
other side of the Mountaine ascendeth flue steppes into a 
pulpit. Purc/ias, Pilgrimage, p. 269. 
The Duke of Doria's palace has the best outside of any 
in Genoa, as that of Durazzo is the best furnished within. 
Addison, Remarks on Italy (ed. Bohn), I. 362. 
r 4. In ceram., to ornament with 
family Furnariidce. 
II. n. One of the Furnariidce; an oven-bird. 
through which a man can enter. The fireplace is under- 
neath, and that and the flues are so arranged that the 
chest can be uniformly heated to a high temperature. 
The whole is inclosed within a hollow cone of brickwork, Fumarildae (ter-na-n 1-de), n. pi. 
open at the top, like a glass-furnace. Two such chests are Flimarius + -id(K.\ A neotropical family of 
ordinarily built side by side, space being left for flues be- 
tween the adjacent walls. Cupola blast-furnace, the 
modern form of blast-furnace, resembling the cupola used 
for foundry purposes in being much less massive in con- 
struction than the old-fashioned blast-furnace, but at the 
same time of much greater size, the largest being over 100 
feet in height and 25 in diameter across the boshes. The 
cupola blast-furnace is built of radiating brickwork, In- 
tached to the object, as a vase with figures of 
flowers, or the like. To furnish out, to nil out; com- 
plete ; furnish proper materials for. 
^ Since the moneyed men are so fond of war, I should be 
f ormicarioid passerine birds, related to the glad they would furnish out one campaign at their own 
DendrocoJantida; but differing from them some- charge. Swift, Conduct of Allies. 
what in the structure of the feet; the South 
American oven-birds. These birds are so called from 
the oven-like nests which they build. They mostly have 
stiffened pointed tail-feathers, and the general habits of 
creepers. Also written Furnaridce, Furnariadas. 
closed within a wrought-iron casing. Cupola furnace. Ti, lrT , ar i 11B .fA r n o 'vi-iis' TNL Ccf L fur- 
^SS^SS^^J^^S^^SS. "a baker), < L.f~, L oversee %r- 
ber in which the puddling is effected is made to rotate dur- 
ing the operation. It is claimed that the Danks furnace 
is more effective in eliminating the phosphorus and sul- 
phur than the ordinary form of puddling-furnace. De- 
composing- fumace, a furnace used in the conversion of 
common salt into sulphate of soda, aided by the action of 
sulphuric acid. Dumb furnace, a ventilating-furnace 
placed at the foot of the up-cast shaft of a mine, and ar- 
ranged in such a way that, while the dangerous gases are 
drawn away, they cannot come in contact with the fire. 
Hardening-furnace, in hoi-making, a furnace in which 
the bodies of hats, folded in wet cloth, are laid upon an iron 
plate and hardened by the pressure of travrrsing-plates 
together with the heat and dampness. High furnace, 
the ordinary blast-furnace : so called in literal translation 
from the French haut fonrtimu. Hydrocarbon-fur- 
nace, a. furnace in which a liquid fuel, as petroleum, is 
use,!. Muffle-furnace, the small pnrhible furnace in 
w hidi is lu-ittud tin- inutile containing the cupels (see cupel) 
ust'd in assaying gold ami silver. Osmund furnace, i" 
iiirtttf-tr<ti-kii)'/. a primitive form of furnace formerly used 
in Sweden, and still in use in Finland, for reducing bog- 
Brazilian Oven-bird (Furnarius/igulits). 
It is a great convenience to those who want wit to fur- 
nish out a conversation, that there is something or other 
in all companies where it is wanted substituted in its stead, 
which, according to their taste, does the business as well. 
Steele, Spectator, No. 504. 
II. intraiis. If. To provide one's self with 
equipment ; equip one's self. 
I expect measure hard enough and must furnish apace 
with proportionable armour. 
N. Ward, Simple Cobler, p. 93. 
2. To provide furniture for a room or a house. 
3. In racing slang, to take on flesh; improve 
in strength and appearance. 
The horse had furnished so since then. 
tlatmittan's May. 
furnish 1 !, n. [(furnish, r.] Provision; outfit; 
furniture; supply. 
Hee sends him a whole Furnish of all vessels for his 
chamber of cleane gold. Daniel, Hist. Eng., p. 169. 
To lend the world a. furnish of wit, she lays her own to 
pawn. Gree)ie, Groatsworth of Wit. 
furnish 2 *, . An obsolete variant of furnace. 
furnished (fer'nisht), p. a. 1. Provided with 
what is needful ; fitted with furniture or what- 
