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Hearthstone :: Hearthstone (n.) Stone forming the hearth; hence, the fireside; home..

Penates :: Penates (n. pl.) The household gods of the ancient Romans. They presided over the home and the family hearth. See Lar.

Hearth :: Hearth (n.) The pavement or floor of brick, stone, or metal in a chimney, on which a fire is made; the floor of a fireplace; also, a corresponding part of a stove..

Hearth :: Hearth (n.) The floor of a furnace, on which the material to be heated lies, or the lowest part of a melting furnace, into which the melted material settles..

Hearth :: Hearth (n.) The house itself, as the abode of comfort to its inmates and of hospitality to strangers; fireside..

Lar :: Lar (n.) A tutelary deity; a deceased ancestor regarded as a protector of the family. The domestic Lares were the tutelar deities of a house; household gods. Hence, Eng.: Hearth or dwelling house..

Finery :: Finery (n.) A charcoal hearth or furnace for the conversion of cast iron into wrought iron, or into iron suitable for puddling..

Fumage :: Fumage (n.) Hearth money.

Reredos :: Reredos (n.) The open hearth, upon which fires were lighted, immediately under the louver, in the center of ancient halls..

Amphidromical :: Amphidromical (a.) Pertaining to an Attic festival at the naming of a child; -- so called because the friends of the parents carried the child around the hearth and then named it.

Fettling :: Fettling (n.) A mixture of ore, cinders, etc., used to line the hearth of a puddling furnace..

Dam :: Dam (n.) A firebrick wall, or a stone, which forms the front of the hearth of a blast furnace..

Forehearth :: Forehearth (n.) The forward extension of the hearth of a blast furnace under the tymp.

Pernot Furnace :: Pernot furnace () A reverberatory furnace with a circular revolving hearth, -- used in making steel..

Fireside :: Fireside (n.) A place near the fire or hearth; home; domestic life or retirement.

Salamander :: Salamander (n.) Solidified material in a furnace hearth.

Fining :: Fining (n.) The process of fining or refining; clarification; also (Metal.), the conversion of cast iron into suitable for puddling, in a hearth or charcoal fire..

Mantle :: Mantle (n.) The outer wall and casing of a blast furnace, above the hearth..

Spider :: Spider (n.) An iron pan with a long handle, used as a kitchen utensil in frying food. Originally, it had long legs, and was used over coals on the hearth..

Fireplace :: Fireplace (n.) The part a chimney appropriated to the fire; a hearth; -- usually an open recess in a wall, in which a fire may be built..

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