Online Encyclopedia

Search over 40,000 articles from the original, classic Encyclopedia Britannica, 11th Edition.

HEARTH (a word which appears in vario...

Online Encyclopedia
Originally appearing in Volume V13, Page 134 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
Spread the word: del.icio.us del.icio.us it!

See also:

HEARTH (a word which appears in various forms in several See also:Teutonic See also:languages, cf. Dutch haard, See also:German See also:Herd, in the sense of " See also:floor ")  , the See also:part of a See also:room where a See also:fire is made, usually 'onstructed of See also:stone, bricks, tiles or See also:earth, beaten hard and having a See also:chimney above; the fire being lighted either on the See also:hearth itself, or in a receptacle placed there for the purpose . Like the Latin See also:focus, especially in the phrase for " hearth and See also:home " answering to See also:pro aris et focis, the word is used as See also:equivalent to the home or See also:household . The word is also applied to the fire and cooking apparatus on See also:board See also:ship; the See also:floor of a See also:smith's fdrge; the floor of a reverberatory See also:furnace on which the ore is exposed to the See also:flame; the See also:lower part of a blast furnace through which the See also:metal goes down into the crucible; in soldering, a portable See also:brazier or chafing dish, and an See also:iron See also:box sunk in the See also:middle of a See also:flat iron See also:plate or table . An " open-hearth furnace " is a regenerative furnace of the reverberatory type used in making See also:steel, hence "open-hearth steel" (see IRON AND STEEL) . Hearth-See also:money, hearth tax or chimney-money, was a tax imposed in See also:England on all houses except cottages at a See also:rate of two shillings for every hearth . It was first levied in 1662, but owing to its unpopularity, chiefly caused by the domiciliary visits of the collectors, it was repealed in 1689, although it was producing £170,000 a See also:year . The principle of the tax was not new in the See also:history of See also:taxation, for in Anglo-Saxon times the See also:king derived a part of his See also:revenue from a fumage or tax of See also:smoke farthings levied on all hearths except those of the poor . It appears also in the hearth-See also:penny or tax of a penny on every hearth, which as See also:early as the loth See also:century was paid annually to the See also:pope (see See also:PETER'S PENCE) .

End of Article: HEARTH (a word which appears in various forms in several Teutonic languages, cf. Dutch haard, German Herd, in the sense of " floor ")
[back]
LUNG HEART
[next]
HEARTS

Additional information and Comments

There are no comments yet for this article.
» Add information or comments to this article.
Please link directly to this article:
Highlight the code below, right click and select "copy." Paste it into a website, email, or other HTML document.