A dictionary of architecture and building : biographical, historical, and descriptive . XII., p. 37. FUMOIR. In French, a smoking room;especially, one in a jiublic building or place ofpublic resort, or the like. FUR. To apply Furring; generally withup, d(nun, or out. Thus, a ceihng which issuspended some distance below the joists, bymeans of furring, is said to be furred down;a roof which is carried on furring some distanceabove tiic roof beams is said to be furred up. FURNACE. An apparatus by means ofwhich a fire may be brought to a great heat,which heat may then be utilized in any waydesired
A dictionary of architecture and building : biographical, historical, and descriptive . XII., p. 37. FUMOIR. In French, a smoking room;especially, one in a jiublic building or place ofpublic resort, or the like. FUR. To apply Furring; generally withup, d(nun, or out. Thus, a ceihng which issuspended some distance below the joists, bymeans of furring, is said to be furred down;a roof which is carried on furring some distanceabove tiic roof beams is said to be furred up. FURNACE. An apparatus by means ofwhich a fire may be brought to a great heat,which heat may then be utilized in any waydesired. Ordinarily, such a structure used forthe heating of the interior of any building; inthis sense, divisible into hot air furnace, hotwater furnace, and steam furnace; althoughmore commonly limited to the hot air furnacealone. Such a furnace is distinguished from a158 FURRING stove in that the hot air, colleeted in a largechamber, j)asses to ditterent jiarts of the build-ing by means of pipes and flues, whereas a stovegeneraUy heats the room iu which it stands by BRICK WALL.,^^ GABLE. Furring by Hollow Blocks, as of Terra Cotta, WITH Deafening: a Very Elaborate System. tompare the cuts uiuler Pireprooling. direct radiation ; although some part of the heatof the stove may be diverted, and the stovebecome, in a sense, a furnace. (See Warming.) FURRING. A light framework, or simplystrips, — generally of wood, but sometimes ofmetal, — applied to walls, beams, or similarsurfaces to support sheatliing, plaster, or otherform of finish. Its purpose is either to give amore uniform and even stnicture for the appli-cation of such a finish ; or to form an air sjmcebehind such a finish ; or to give a semblanceof a constructive form, as the imitation ofa vault, by means of some plastic mate-rial carried on a frame of tlie necessaryshape. By extension, in recent times,hollow brick or tile used for suchpiuiioses. FURRING STRIP. Anystrijj, generally of wood, usedfor furring. Specifically, in
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