noun. Stone used in the construction of a hearth.

noun. Family life; the home.

noun. A soft stone or composition of pipe clay and pulverized stone used for scouring and whitening hearths or doorsteps.

noun. A stone forming a hearth.

noun. Hence The fireside.

noun. A soft kind of stone used to whiten door-steps, scour floors, etc.

To scour, as a floor, with hearthstone.

noun. Stone forming the hearth; hence, the fireside; home.

noun. A flat stone used to form a hearth.

noun. By extension: The fireside, home life.

noun. A soft kind of stone used to whiten door-steps, scour floors, etc.

verb. To scour, as a floor, with hearthstone.

noun. a stone that forms a hearth

"A lifeless man, lying outstretched on a certain hearthstone, might be found once in a house and awaken no special comment; but when this same discovery has been made twice, if not thrice, during the history of a single dwelling, one might surely be pardoned a distrust of its seemingly home-like appointments, and discern in its slowly darkening walls the presence of an evil which if left to itself might perish in the natural decay of the place, but which, if met and challenged, might strike again and make another blot on its thrice-crimsoned hearthstone."

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