The bottom and hottest part of a blast furnace; the hearth.
A heat-resistant container in which metals are melted, usually at temperatures above 500°C, commonly made of graphite with clay as a binder.
A cup-shaped piece of laboratory equipment used to contain chemical compounds when heating them to very high temperatures.
A very difficult and trying experience, that acts as a refining or hardening process.
A furnace used for melting iron in a foundry.
A laborer who operates such a furnace.
A person or thing that melts.
A variety of peach in which the flesh parts freely from the stone when ripe, also known as a free-stone.
An obsolete spelling of milter.