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Oven :: Oven (n.) A place arched over with brick or stonework, and used for baking, heating, or drying; hence, any structure, whether fixed or portable, which may be heated for baking, drying, etc.; esp., now, a chamber in a stove, used for baking or roasting..

Kiln :: Kiln (n.) A large stove or oven; a furnace of brick or stone, or a heated chamber, for the purpose of hardening, burning, or drying anything; as, a kiln for baking or hardening earthen vessels; a kiln for drying grain, meal, lumber, etc.; a kiln for calcining limestone..

Insolation :: Insolation (n.) The act or process to exposing to the rays of the sun fro the purpose of drying or maturing, as fruits, drugs, etc., or of rendering acid, as vinegar..

Indurate :: Indurate (v. i.) To grow hard; to harden, or become hard; as, clay indurates by drying, and by heat..

Insiccation :: Insiccation (n.) The act or process of drying in.

Baking :: Baking (n.) The act or process of cooking in an oven, or of drying and hardening by heat or cold..

Drying :: Drying (a.) Adapted or tending to exhaust moisture; as, a drying wind or day; a drying room..

Scrap :: Scrap (v. t.) The crisp substance that remains after drying out animal fat; as, pork scraps..

Gloom :: Gloom (n.) In gunpowder manufacture, the drying oven..

Exsiccation :: Exsiccation (n.) The act of operation of drying; evaporation or expulsion of moisture; state of being dried up; dryness.

Hack :: Hack (n.) A frame or grating of various kinds; as, a frame for drying bricks, fish, or cheese; a rack for feeding cattle; a grating in a mill race, etc..

Evaporator :: Evaporator (n.) An apparatus for condensing vegetable juices, or for drying fruit by heat..

Couch :: Couch (v. t.) To transfer (as sheets of partly dried pulp) from the wire cloth mold to a felt blanket, for further drying..

Desiccant :: Desiccant (n.) A medicine or application for drying up a sore.

Siccative :: Siccative (n.) That which promotes drying.

Tedder :: Tedder (n.) A machine for stirring and spreading hay, to expedite its drying..

Hothouse :: Hothouse (n.) A heated room for drying green ware.

Indican :: Indican (n.) A glucoside obtained from woad (indigo plant) and other plants, as a yellow or light brown sirup. It has a nauseous bitter taste, a decomposes or drying. By the action of acids, ferments, etc., it breaks down into sugar and indigo. It is the source of natural indigo..

Creep :: Creep (v. t.) To slip, or to become slightly displaced; as, the collodion on a negative, or a coat of varnish, may creep in drying; the quicksilver on a mirror may creep..

Desiccate :: Desiccate (v. t.) To dry up; to deprive or exhaust of moisture; to preserve by drying; as, to desiccate fish or fruit..

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