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An instance of fire resulting from the controlled and tended burning of fuel and used as a source of heat, as in a fireplace, furnace, oven…
transferred and figurative. collective or in plural. The fire on the hearth. Obsolete or dialect.
Fire; a fire burning upon the hearth; a house-fire. Now chiefly in at, by,or round the ingle.