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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.

Stone forming the hearth; hence, the fireside; home. Chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone. A. Lincoln.

The forward extension of the hearth of a blast furnace under the tymp.

See under Open.

That variety of either the Bessemer or the open-hearth process in which the converter or hearth is lined with acid, that is, highly siliceous, material. Opposed to basic process.

of a child; -- so called because the friends of the parents carried the child around the hearth and then named it.

A large stick of wood, forming the of a fire on the hearth. [U.S.] There was first a backlog, from fifteen to four and twenty inches in diameter and five feet long, imbedded in the ashes. S. G. Goodrich.

A Bessemer or open-hearth steel-making process in which a lining that is basic, or not siliceous, is used, and additions of basic material are made to the molten charge during treatment. Opposed to acid process, above. Called also Thomas process.

oal, or coke with clay, molasses, tar, or other suitable substance. It is used for lining hearths, crucibles, etc. Called also steep.

A fireplace or hearth. [Obs.] Sir W. Raleigh.

To chirp. Tennyson. The criket chirrups on the hearth. Goldsmith.

A firebrick wall, or a stone, which forms the front of the hearth of a blast furnace. Dam plate (Blast Furnace), an iron plate in front of the dam, to strengthen it.

t; -- so called because no coal is found worth working below this stratum. It is used for hearths of furnaces, having power to resist intense heat. Ure.

To cover or line with a mixture of ore, cinders, etc., as the hearth of a puddling furnace.

A mixture of ore, cinders, etc., used to line the hearth of a puddling furnace. [Eng.] [It is commonly called fix in the United States.]

A charcoal hearth or furnace for the conversion of cast iron into wrought iron, or into iron suitable for puddling.

larification; also (Metal.), the conversion of cast iron into suitable for puddling, in a hearth or charcoal fire.

Fuel in a state of combustion, as on a hearth, or in

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

A place near the fire or hearth; home; domestic life or retirement.