Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for HYP'O-CAUST
HY-POB'O-LEHYP-O-CHON'DRES, or HYP-O-CHON'DRY
HYP'O-CAUST, n. [Gr. υποκαυστον; υπο and καιω, to burn.]
- Among the Greeks and Romans, a subterraneous place where was a furnace to heat baths.
- Among the moderns, the place where a fire is kept to warm a stove or a hot-house. Encyc.
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