FLUE
\flˈuː], \flˈuː], \f_l_ˈuː]\
Definitions of FLUE
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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An inclosed passage way for establishing and directing a current of air, gases, etc.; an air passage
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A compartment or division of a chimney for conveying flame and smoke to the outer air.
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A passage way for conducting a current of fresh, foul, or heated air from one place to another.
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Light down, such as rises from cotton, fur, etc.; very fine lint or hair.
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In an organ flue pipe, the opening between the lower lip and the languet.
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A pipe or passage for conveying flame and hot gases through surrounding water in a boiler; - distinguished from a tube which holds water and is surrounded by fire. Small flues are called fire tubes or simply tubes.
By Oddity Software
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An inclosed passage way for establishing and directing a current of air, gases, etc.; an air passage
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A compartment or division of a chimney for conveying flame and smoke to the outer air.
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A passage way for conducting a current of fresh, foul, or heated air from one place to another.
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Light down, such as rises from cotton, fur, etc.; very fine lint or hair.
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In an organ flue pipe, the opening between the lower lip and the languet.
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A pipe or passage for conveying flame and hot gases through surrounding water in a boiler; - distinguished from a tube which holds water and is surrounded by fire. Small flues are called fire tubes or simply tubes.
By Noah Webster.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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A passage for smoke in a chimney, leading from the fireplace to the top of the chimney, or into another passage; a pipe or tube for conveying heat to water in certain kinds of steam boilers; a passage in a wall for the purpose of conducting heat from one part of a building to another.
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To expand or splay, as the jambs of a window.
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Soft down or fur; very fine hair; flew.
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A money of account of Morocco of the value of 1-12 of a cent.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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n. [Old French] An air-passage; especially, one for conveying smoke and flame from a fire;—a passage in a wall to convey heated air through a building;—a passage surrounded by water, for the gaseous products of combustion, in distinction from tubes, which hold water and are surrounded by fire.
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n. [German, Latin] Light down, such as rises from beds, cotton, &c.; soft down, fur or hair.
