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A reverberatory furnace with a circular revolving hearth, -- used in making steel.
See Open-hearth process, etc., under Open.
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The outer wall and casing of a blast furnace, above the hearth.
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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.
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A place near the fire or hearth; home; domestic life or retirement.
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A mass of solidified metal in a furnace hearth; a salamander.
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The open hearth, upon which fires were lighted, immediately under the louver, in the center of ancient halls.
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Of or pertaining to Vesta, the virgin goddess of the hearth; hence, pure; chaste.
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A projecting cover above a hearth, forming the upper part of the fireplace, and confining the smoke to the flue.
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Stone forming the hearth; hence, the fireside; home.
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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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A cupel or cupelling hearth in which precious metals are melted for trial and refinement.
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The household gods of the ancient Romans. They presided over the home and the family hearth. See Lar.
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One of the great divinities of the ancient Romans, identical with the Greek Hestia. She was a virgin, and the goddess of the hearth; hence, also, of the fire on it, and the family round it.
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To line the hearth of (a puddling furnace) with fettling.
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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.
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The house itself, as the abode of comfort to its inmates and of hospitality to strangers; fireside.
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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.
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Solidified material in a furnace hearth.
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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.
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