- Burning chamber - Place of intense heat - Very hot fire - An inclosed place in which heat is produced by the
combustion of fuel, as for reducing ores or melting metals, for warming
a house, for baking pottery, etc.; as, an iron furnace; a hot-air
furnace; a glass furnace; a boiler furnace, etc. - A place or time of punishment, affiction, or great trial;
severe experience or discipline. - To throw out, or exhale, as from a furnace; also, to put
into a furnace.
- Heard crew, Sybil, has vessel for eating - A vessel or melting pot, composed of some very refractory
substance, as clay, graphite, platinum, and used for melting and
calcining substances which require a strong degree of heat, as metals,
ores, etc. - A hollow place at the bottom of a furnace, to receive the
melted metal. - A test of the most decisive kind; a severe trial; as, the
crucible of affliction.
- Difficult - Tying wraps around bottom of hair, that’s frustrating! - of Try - Adapted to try, or put to severe trial; severe; afflictive;
as, a trying occasion or position.