| Hearth (n.) The pavement or floor of brick, stone, or metal in a chimney, on which a fire is made |
| Hearth (n.) The house itself, as the abode of comfort to its inmates and of hospitality to strangers |
| 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. |
| fireplace hearth open fireplace 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" |
| hearth / fireside home symbolized as a part of the fireplace, "driven from hearth and home", "fighting in defense of their firesides" |
| open-hearth furnace a furnace for making steel in which the steel is placed on a shallow hearth and flames of burning gas and hot air play over it |
| hearth / fireside an area near a fireplace (usually paved and extending out into a room), "they sat on the hearth and warmed themselves before the fire" |
| hearth money / Peter's pence an annual contribution made by Roman Catholics to support the papal see |
| open-hearth process a process for making steel using an open-hearth furnace |
| open-hearth of or relating to or produced by the open-hearth process, "open-hearth steel" |