Hypertext Webster Gateway: "calefactory"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Calefactory \Cal`e*fac"to*ry\, a. [L. calefactorius.]
Making hot; producing or communicating heat.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Calefactory \Cal`e*fac"to*ry\, n.
1. (Eccl.) An apartment in a monastery, warmed and used as a
sitting room.
2. A hollow sphere of metal, filled with hot water, or a
chafing dish, placed on the altar in cold weather for the
priest to warm his hands with.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
calefactory
adj : serving to heat; "a heating pad is calefactory" [syn: {calefactive},
{heating}]
Additional Hypertext Webster Gateway Lookup
Gateway by dict@stokkie.net
stock only wrote the gateway and does not have any control over the contents;
see the Webster Gateway FAQ,
and also the Back-end/database links and credits.