Heart"en*er (-r), n. One who, or that which, heartens, animates, or
stirs up. W. Browne.
Heart"felt` (-flt`), a. Hearty; sincere.
Heart"grief` (-grf`), n. Heartache; sorrow. Milton.
Hearth (h‰rth), n. [OE. harthe, herth, herthe, AS. heor; akin to D.
haard, heerd, Sw. h‰rd, G. herd; cf. Goth. ha˙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.
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.
2. The house itself, as the abode of comfort to its inmates and of
hospitality to strangers; fireside.
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.
Hearth ends (Metal.), fragments of lead ore ejected from the furnace by
the blast. -- Hearth money, Hearth penny [AS. heorpening], 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.
He had been importuned by the common people to relieve them from
the . . . burden of the hearth money.
Macaulay.
Hearth"stone` (-stn`), n. 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.
Heart"i*ly (h‰rt"*l), adv. [From Hearty.] 1. From the heart; with all
the heart; with sincerity.