figure; outline; show.-empty talk; contemptible nonsense; trash; humbug.-one of the sloping sides of the lower part of a blast furnace; also, one of the hollow iron or brick sides of the bed of a puddling or boiling furnace.-the lower part of a blast furnace, which slopes inward, or the widest space at the top of this part.-in forging and smelting, a trough in which tools and ingots are cooled.