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hart | hearth |

As an adjective hart

is .

As an adverb hart

is in a hard manner; inflexibly, unyieldingly.

As a noun hearth is

a brick, stone or cement floor to a fireplace or oven.

hart

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) . (cognates) Compare (etyl) . More at (l).

Noun

(en noun)
  • A male deer, especially the male of the red deer after its fifth year.
    • Related terms
    * hind (the female)

    Etymology 2

    See (m)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • * , scene i:
    • For this reliefe much thanks, tis bitter cold, and I am ?ick at hart .

    Anagrams

    * (l), (l), (l), (l) ----

    hearth

    English

    (wikipedia hearth)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A brick, stone or cement floor to a fireplace or oven.
  • *
  • *:When the flames at last began to flicker and subside, his lids fluttered, then drooped?; but he had lost all reckoning of time when he opened them again to find Miss Erroll in furs kneeling on the hearth and heaping kindling on the coals, and her pretty little Alsatian maid beside her, laying a log across the andirons.
  • An open recess in a wall at the base of a chimney where a fire may be built.
  • The lowest part of a metallurgical furnace.
  • A symbol for home or family life.
  • (lb) A household or group following the modern pagan faith of Heathenry.

    • Synonyms

    * (open recess at the base of a chimney where a fire may be built) fireplace

    Derived terms

    * hearth and home * hearthrug * hearthstone

    Anagrams

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