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To line the hearth of (a puddling furnace) with fettling.

Front stick of a hearth fire.

Hearth money. Fumage, or fuage, vulgarly called smoke farthings. Blackstone.

A projecting cover above a hearth, forming the upper part of the fireplace, and confining the smoke to the flue.

Steel cast in ingots from the Bessemer converter or open-hearth furnace.

ily. The domestic Lares were the tutelar deities of a house; household gods. Hence, Eng.: Hearth or dwelling house. Nor will she her dear Lar forget, Victorious by his benefit. Lovelace. The Lars and Lemures moan with midnight plaint. Milton. Looking backward in vain toward their Lares and lands. Longfellow.…

The outer wall and casing of a blast furnace, above the hearth. Raymond.

ank covered by the orillon. -- Open-front furnace (Metal.), a blast furnace having a forehearth. -- Open harmony (Mus.), harmony the tones of which are widely dispersed, or separated by wide intervals. -- Open hawse (Naut.), a hawse in which the cables are parallel or slightly divergent. Cf. Foul hawse, under Hawse.…

Metal; as, the liquid ore. [R.] Milton. Ore hearth, a low furnace in which rich lead ore is reduced; -- also called Scotch hearth. Raymond.

The household gods of the ancient Romans. They presided over the home and the family hearth. See Lar.

A reverberatory furnace with a circular revolving hearth, -- used in making steel.

penny for every house, payable on Lammas or St.Peter's day; -- called also Rome scot, and hearth money. (b) In modern times, a voluntary contribution made by Roman Catholics to the private purse of the pope. -- Peter's fish (Zoöl.), a haddock; -- so called because the black spots, one on each side, behind the gills, a…

e manner or style in which any one expreses himself; diction; expression. "Phrases of the hearth." Tennyson. Thou speak'st In better phrase and matter than thou didst. Shak.

The open hearth, upon which fires were lighted, immediately under the louver, in the center of ancient halls. [Also spelt reredosse.] Fairholt.

Solidofied material in a furnace hearth. Giant salamander. (Zoöl.) See under Giant. -- Salamander's hair or wool (Min.), a species of asbestus or mineral flax. [Obs.] Bacon.

See Open-hearth process, etc., under Open.

See Open-hearth steel, under Open.

The scoria of a volcano. Slag furnace, or Slag hearth (Metal.), a furnace, or hearth, for extracting lead from slags or poor ore. -- Slag wool, mineral wool. See under Mineral.

A mass of solidified metal in a furnace hearth; a salamander.

chen utensil in frying food. Originally, it had long legs, and was used over coals on the hearth.