Word Meanings - FIREPLACE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The part a chimney appropriated to the fire; a hearth; -- usually an open recess in a wall, in which a fire may be built.

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• RECESS
  A sinus. (more info) 1. A withdrawing or retiring; a moving back; retreat; as, the recess of the tides. Every degree of ignorance being so far a recess and degradation from rationality. South. My recess hath given them confidence that I may be
• APPROPRIATENESS
  The state or quality of being appropriate; peculiar fitness. Froude.
• RECESSED
  1. Having a recess or recesses; as, a recessed arch or wall. 2. Withdrawn; secluded. "Comfortably recessed from curious impertinents." Miss Edgeworth. Recessed arch , one of a series of arches constructed one within another so as to correspond
• APPROPRIATION
  1. The act of setting apart or assigning to a particular use or person, or of taking to one's self, in exclusion of all others; application to a special use or purpose, as of a piece of ground for a park, or of money to carry out some object. 2.
• APPROPRIATE
  Set apart for a particular use or person. Hence: Belonging peculiarly; peculiar; suitable; fit; proper. In its strict and appropriate meaning. Porteus. Appropriate acts of divine worship. Stillingfleet. It is not at all times easy to find words
• CHIMNEY-BREAST
  The horizontal projection of a chimney from the wall in which it is built; -- commonly applied to its projection in the inside of a building only.
• WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• RECESSIONAL
  Of or pertaining to recession or withdrawal. Recessional hymn, a hymn sung in a procession returning from the choir to the robing room.
• RECESSION
  The act of receding or withdrawing, as from a place, a claim, or a demand. South. Mercy may rejoice upon the recessions of justice. Jer. Taylor.
• CHIMNEY-PIECE
  A decorative construction around the opning of a fireplace.
• BUILT
  Shape; build; form of structure; as, the built of a ship. Dryden.
• CHIMNEY
  A body of ore, usually of elongated form, extending downward in a vein. Raymond. Chimney board, a board or screen used to close a fireplace; a fireboard. -- Chimney cap, a device to improve the draught of a chimney, by presenting an exit aperture
• WHICH
  the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who.
• HEARTHSTONE
  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.
• HEARTH
  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 , fragments of lead ore ejected from the furnace by the blast. -- Hearth money, Hearth
• RECESSIVE
  Going back; receding.
• APPROPRIATOR
  A spiritual corporation possessed of an appropriated benefice; also, an impropriator. (more info) 1. One who appropriates.
• APPROPRIATIVE
  Appropriating; making, or tending to, appropriation; as, an appropriative act. -- Ap*pro"pri*a*tive*ness, n.
• APPROPRIATELY
  In an appropriate or proper manner; fitly; properly.
• PRECESSIONAL
  Of or pertaining to pression; as, the precessional movement of the equinoxes.
• JERRY-BUILT
  Built hastily and of bad materials; as, jerry-built houses.
• UNAPPROPRIATE
  1. Inappropriate; unsuitable. 2. Not appropriated. Bp. Warburton.
• ICE-BUILT
  1. Composed of ice. 2. Loaded with ice. "Ice-built mountains." Gray.
• OVERBUILT
  Having too many buildings; as, an overbuilt part of a town.
• SEA-BUILT
  Built at, in, or by the sea.
• OPEN-HEARTH STEEL
  See OPEN