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

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

Finery :: Finery (n.) A charcoal hearth or furnace for the conversion of cast iron into wrought iron, or into iron suitable for puddling..

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..

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..

Backlog :: Backlog (n.) A large stick of wood, forming the back of a fire on the hearth..

Fix :: Fix (v. t.) To line the hearth of (a puddling furnace) with fettling.

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

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..

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.

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

Fumage :: Fumage (n.) Hearth money.

Fining :: Fining (n.) The process of fining or refining; clarification; also (Metal.), the conversion of cast iron into suitable for puddling, in a hearth or charcoal fire..

Mantle :: Mantle (n.) The outer wall and casing of a blast furnace, above the hearth..

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

Hearthstone :: Hearthstone (n.) Stone forming the hearth; hence, the fireside; home..

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..

Dam :: Dam (n.) A firebrick wall, or a stone, which forms the front of the hearth of a blast furnace..

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