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A furnace, esp. one connected with a series of small chambers and flues of tiles or other masonry through which the heat of a fire was distributed to rooms above. This contrivance, first used in bath, was afterwards adopted in private houses.
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To take the tiles from; to uncover by removing the tiles.
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That with which anythingis paved; a floor or covering of solid material, laid so as to make a hard and convenient surface for travel; a paved road or sidewalk; a decorative interior floor of tiles or colored bricks.
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A thin, narrow strip of wood, nailed to the rafters, studs, or floor beams of a building, for the purpose of supporting the tiles, plastering, etc. A corrugated metallic strip or plate is sometimes used.
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A pile of arched tiles, used to catch and retain oyster spawn.
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A kind of laminated shale or sandstone belonging to some of the layers of the Upper Silurian.
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A man whose occupation is to cover buildings with tiles.
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To drain by means of tiles; to furnish with a tile drain.
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That which is built by a mason; anything constructed of the materials used by masons, such as stone, brick, tiles, or the like. Dry masonry is applied to structures made without mortar.
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A place where tiles are made or burned; a tile kiln.
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Fig.: To cover, as if with tiles.
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To cover with tiles; as, to tile a house.
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A tile of stone.
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To cover, as a roof, with tiles, slate, lead, or the like.
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Tiles, collectively.
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A genus of edentates, covered with large, hard, triangular scales, with sharp edges that overlap each other like tiles on a roof. They inhabit the warmest parts of Asia and Africa, and feed on ants. Called also Scaly anteater. See Pangolin.
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Composed of small plates, as of horn or metal, overlapping like tiles; -- said of a kind of ancient armor.
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Of or pertaining to a tile; resembling a tile, or arranged like tiles; consisting of tiles; as, a tegular pavement.
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An apparatus, consisting essentially of a receptacle for fuel, made of iron, brick, stone, or tiles, and variously constructed, in which fire is made or kept for warming a room or a house, or for culinary or other purposes.
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A surface covered with tiles, or composed of tiles.
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