athanor

English Thesaurus

1. a furnace that feeds itself so as to maintain a uniform temperature; used by alchemists (noun.artifact)

hypernym	:	furnace,
definition	:	an enclosed chamber in which heat is produced to heat buildings, destroy refuse, smelt or refine ores, etc. (noun.artifact)

domain category	:	alchemy,
definition	:	a pseudoscientific forerunner of chemistry in medieval times (noun.cognition)