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

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

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..

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

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

Vesta :: Vesta (n.) 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..

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

Fumage :: Fumage (n.) Hearth money.

Fire :: Fire (n.) Fuel in a state of combustion, as on a hearth, or in a stove or a furnace..

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..

Siemens-martin Process :: Siemens-Martin process () See Open-hearth process, etc., under Open..

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.

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

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..

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

Test :: Test (n.) A cupel or cupelling hearth in which precious metals are melted for trial and refinement.

Forestick :: Forestick (n.) Front stick of a hearth fire.

Sow :: Sow (n.) A mass of solidified metal in a furnace hearth; a salamander.

Hood :: Hood (n.) A projecting cover above a hearth, forming the upper part of the fireplace, and confining the smoke to the flue..

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