| Kiln 1. (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. 2. (n.) A furnace for burning bricks; a brick kiln. Thesaurus Entries Seger cone, acid kiln, air-dry, anhydrate, bake, blot, brickkiln, brush, burn, cement kiln, cure, dehumidify, dehydrate, desiccate, drain, dry, enamel kiln, evaporate, exsiccate, fire, furnace, insolate, limekiln, muffle kiln, mummify, oven, parch, pyrometer, pyrometric cone, reverberatory, reverberatory kiln, rub, scorch, sear, shrivel, smoke, soak up, sponge, stove, sun, sun-dry, swab, torrefy, towel, weazen, wipe, wither, wizen |