Word Meanings - BLOOMERY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A furnace and forge in which wrought iron in the form of blooms is made directly from the ore, or from cast iron.

Related words: (words related to BLOOMERY)

• FORGETTINGLY
  By forgetting.
• FORGETFUL
  1. Apt to forget; easily losing remembrance; as, a forgetful man should use helps to strengthen his memory. 2. Heedless; careless; neglectful; inattentive. Be not forgetful to entertain strangers. Heb. xiii. 2.
• WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• FORGETFULNESS
  1. The quality of being forgetful; prononess to let slip from the mind. 2. Loss of remembrance or recollection; a ceasing to remember; oblivion. A sweet forgetfulness of human care. Pope. 3. Failure to bear in mind; careless omission; inattention;
• FORGEMAN
  A skilled smith, who has a hammerer to assist him.
• WHICH
  the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who.
• FORGERY
  1. The act of forging metal into shape. Useless the forgery Of brazen shield and spear. Milton. 2. The act of forging, fabricating, or producing falsely; esp., the crime of fraudulently making or altering a writing or signature purporting to be
• WROUGHT
  imp. & p. p. of Work. Alas that I was wrought ! Chaucer.
• FORGETIVE
  Inventive; productive; capable. Shak.
• FORGER
  One who forges, makes, of forms; a fabricator; a falsifier. 2. Especially: One guilty of forgery; one who makes or issues a counterfeit document.
• FORGETTER
  One who forgets; a heedless person. Johnson.
• FURNACE
  1. 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. Note:
• FORGETTABLE
  Liable to be, or that may be, forgotten. Carlyle.
• FORGET-ME-NOT
  A small herb, of the genus Myosotis (M. palustris, incespitosa, etc.), bearing a beautiful blue flower, and extensively considered the emblem of fidelity. Note: Formerly the name was given to the Ajuga Chamæpitus.
• FORGETFULLY
  In a forgetful manner.
• DIRECTLY
  1. In a direct manner; in a straight line or course. "To run directly on." Shak. Indirectly and directly too Thou hast contrived against the very life Of the defendant. Shak. 2. In a straightforward way; without anything intervening;
• FORGET
  AS. forgietan, forgitan; pref. for- + gietan, gitan , to get; cf. D. vergeten, G. vergessen, Sw. förgäta, Dan. forgiette. 1. To lose the remembrance of; to let go from the memory; to cease to have in mind; not to think of; also, to lose the
• FORGE
  who works in hard materials, fr. faber artisan, smith, as adj., 1. A place or establishment where iron or other metals are wrought by heating and hammering; especially, a furnace, or a shop with its furnace, etc., where iron is heated and wrought;
• HIGH-WROUGHT
  1. Wrought with fine art or skill; elaborate. Pope. 2. Worked up, or swollen, to a high degree; as, a highwrought passion. "A high-wrought flood." Shak.
• REFORGER
  One who reforges.
• PERNOT FURNACE
  A reverberatory furnace with a circular revolving hearth, -- used in making steel.
• UNDIRECTLY
  Indirectly. Strype.
• INWROUGHT
  Wrought or worked in or among other things; worked into any fabric so as to from a part of its texture; wrought or adorned, as with figures. His mantle hairy, and his bonnet sedge, Inwrought with figures dim. Milton. I"o, n.; pl. Ios. Etym:
• ROUGHWROUGHT
  Wrought in a rough, unfinished way; worked over coarsely.
• ASH-FURNACE; ASH-OVEN
  A furnace or oven for fritting materials for glass making.
• INDIRECTLY
  In an direct manner; not in a straight line or course; not in express terms; obliquely; not by direct means; hence, unfairly; wrongly. To tax it indirectly by taxing their expense. A. Smith. Your crown and kingdom indirectly held. Shak.