melting-house

We happened to visit the melting-house one evening, while silver and lead were being separated by oxidizing the lead in a reverberatory furnace.

Anahuac : or, Mexico and the Mexicans, Ancient and Modern Edward Burnett Tylor

The workmen at the Swedish melting-house showed the same thing to some travellers in the seventeenth century; for Regnard saw it in 1681, at the copper-works in Lapland.

The Miracle Mongers, an Exposé Harry Houdini 1900

Company a messuage, tenement, and melting-house, in the parish of St

Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 436 Volume 17, New Series, May 8, 1852 Various 1841

The third person raised to divine honors by Coleridge was Bowyer, the master of Christ's Hospital, London -- a man whose name rises into the nostrils of all who knew him with the gracious odor of a tallow - chandler's melting-house upon melting day, and whose memory is embalmed in the hearty detestation of all his pupils.

Narrative and Miscellaneous Papers — Volume 2 Thomas De Quincey 1822

The third person raised to divine honors by Coleridge was Bowyer, the master of Christ's Hospital, London -- a man whose name rises into the nostrils of all who knew him with the gracious odor of a tallow - chandler's melting-house upon melting day, and whose memory is embalmed in the hearty detestation of all his pupils.

Narrative and Miscellaneous Papers Thomas De Quincey 1822