hearth

1. 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. Source: opted

2. n. The house itself, as the abode of comfort to its inmates and of hospitality to strangers; fireside. Source: opted

3. 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. Source: opted

4. n. an open recess in a wall at the base of a chimney where a fire can be built Source: wordnet

5. n. home symbolized as a part of the fireplace Source: wordnet

6. n. an area near a fireplace (usually paved and extending out into a room) Source: wordnet

7. 1. 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. There was a fire on the hearth burning before him. Jer. xxxvi. 22. Where fires thou find'st unraked and hearths unswept. There pinch the maids as blue as bilberry. Shak. 2. The house itself, as the abode of comfort to its inmates and of hospitality to strangers; fireside. 3. (Metal. & Manuf.) 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 ends (Metal.), fragments of lead ore ejected from the furnace by the blast. -- Hearth money, Hearth penny Etym: [AS. heoredhpening], a tax formerly laid in England on hearths, each hearth (in all houses paying the church and poor rates) being taxed at two shillings; -- called also chimney money, etc. He had been importuned by the common people to relieve them from the . . . burden of the hearth money. Macaulay. Source: webster

8. The floor of a furnace, on which the material to be heatedlies, or the lowest part of a melting furnace, into which the meltedmaterial settles. Hearth ends (Metal.), fragments of lead ore ejectedfrom the furnace by the blast.-- Hearth money, Hearth penny Etym: [AS. heoredhpening], a taxformerly laid in England on hearths, each hearth (in all housespaying the church and poor rates) being taxed at two shillings; --called also chimney money, etc.He had been importuned by the common people to relieve them from the. . . burden of the hearth money. Macaulay. Source: adambom

9. n:100 n. home symbolized as a part of the fireplace n. an area near a fireplace (usually paved and extending out into a room) Source: ecdict

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