- Figure; outline; show. - Empty talk; contemptible nonsense; trash; humbug. - One of the sloping sides of the lower part of a blast
furnace; also, one of the hollow iron or brick sides of the bed of a
puddling or boiling furnace. - The lower part of a blast furnace, which slopes inward, or
the widest space at the top of this part. - In forging and smelting, a trough in which tools and ingots
are cooled.