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Calcar1. World English Historical Dictionary

Calcar1. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1893, rev. 2025. Calcar1 [ad. It. calcara ‘a lime-kill’ (Florio), ‘a kind of oven or furnace to calcine vitreous matter in’ (Baretti); cf. L. calcāria lime-kiln, fem. sing. of calcārius, f. calx, -cis lime.]

1   1.  In Glass-making: ‘A small furnace, in which the first calcination is made of sand and potash, for the formation of a frit’ (Ure, s.v.).

2 1662.  Merret, trans. Neri’s Art of Glass, 19. Mix & spread them well in the Calcar, with a rake, that they may be well calcined, and continue this till they begin to grow into lumps.

3 1712.  trans. Pomet’s Hist. Drugs, I. 104. The English call the whole Quantity, bak’d at a time in the Calcar, a Batch.

4 1832.  G. R. Porter, Porcelain & Gl., in Lardner’s Cab. Cycl., 155. The Calcar is in the form of an oven about ten feet long, seven feet wide, and two feet high.

5 1875.  Ure, Dict. Arts, II. 654. A reverberatory furnace or calcar.

6   2.  Metall. An annealing arch or oven.

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