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hearth 音標拼音: [h'ɑrθ] n. 爐床,灶臺,爐邊 爐床,?台,爐邊 hearth n 1: an open recess in a wall at the base of a chimney where a fire can be built; " the fireplace was so large you could walk inside it"; " he laid a fire in the hearth and lit it"; " the hearth was black with the charcoal of many fires" [ synonym: { fireplace}, { hearth}, { open fireplace}] 2: home symbolized as a part of the fireplace; " driven from hearth and home"; " fighting in defense of their firesides" [ synonym: { hearth}, { fireside}] 3: an area near a fireplace ( usually paved and extending out into a room); " they sat on the hearth and warmed themselves before the fire" [ synonym: { hearth}, { fireside}] Hearth \ Hearth\ ( h[ aum] rth), n. [ OE. harthe, herth, herthe, AS. heor[ eth]; akin to D. haard, heerd, Sw. h[ aum] rd, G. herd; cf. Goth. ha[' u] ri a coal, Icel. hyrr embers, and L. cremare to burn.] 1. 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. [ 1913 Webster] There was a fire on the hearth burning before him. -- Jer. xxxvi. 22. [ 1913 Webster] Where fires thou find' st unraked and hearths unswept. There pinch the maids as blue as bilberry. -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] 2. The house itself, as the abode of comfort to its inmates and of hospitality to strangers; fireside. [ 1913 Webster] Household talk and phrases of the hearth. -- Tennyson. 3. ( Metal. & Manuf.) 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; as, an open- hearth smelting furnace. [ 1913 Webster PJC] { Hearth ends} ( Metal.), fragments of lead ore ejected from the furnace by the blast. { Hearth money}, { Hearth penny} [ AS. heor[ eth] pening], a tax formerly laid in England on hearths, each hearth ( in all houses paying the church and poor rates) being taxed at two shillings; -- called also { chimney money}, etc. [ 1913 Webster] He had been importuned by the common people to relieve them from the . . . burden of the hearth money. -- Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster] 41 Moby Thesaurus words for " hearth": ancestral halls, brood, children, chimney, chimney corner, family, family homestead, fender, fire screen, fireboard, fireguard, fireplace, fireside, flue, folks, foyer, get, hearth and home, hearthstone, hob, home, home place, home roof, home sweet home, homefolks, homestead, house, household, hub, ingle, inglenook, ingleside, issue, menage, offspring, paternal roof, people, roof, rooftree, smokehole, toft |
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