Crossword clues for hearthstone
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Hearthstone \Hearth"stone`\ (-st[=o]n`), n. 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.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A flat stone used to form a hearth. 2 By extension: The fireside, home life. 3 A soft kind of stone used to whiten door-steps, scour floors, etc. vb. (context transitive English) To scour, as a floor, with hearthstone.
WordNet
n. a stone that forms a hearth
Wikipedia
Hearthstone may refer to:
- Hearthstone, a stone that makes up part of a hearth, or fireplace
- Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft, an online free-to-play collectible card game from Blizzard Entertainment released in 2014
- Hearthstone Castle, in Connecticut, U.S.
- Hearthstone Historic House Museum, in Appleton, Wisconsin, U.S.
- Hicklin Hearthstone, a historical building in Lexington, Missouri, U.S.
Usage examples of "hearthstone".
Some were known to everyone as magical, but were difficult for most folk to activate, such as charmstones and hearthstones.
The general introduction of cooking stoves, and other stoves and apparatus for warming houses, within the last twenty years, which we acknowledge to be a great acquisition in comfort as well as in convenience and economy, has been carried to an extreme, not only in shutting up and shutting out the time-honored open fireplace and its broad hearthstone, with their hallowed associations, but also in prejudice to the health of those who so indiscriminately use them, regardless of other arrangements which ought to go with them.
They had journeyed with her back down out of the Ravenshorn, skirted the mountains south along the barren stretches of Olden Moor, crossed again over Toffer Ridge into the forests of Darklin Reach and the valley of Hearthstone, then followed the winding channel of the Chard Rush west until they had reached the little glen where Allanon had fought his final battle.
It had begun modestly, as most good mysteries do, with a small item on the back page which briefly mentioned that a wealthy farmer named Amos Grundle had mysteriously vanished and that his wife, Sarah, had committed suicide by cutting her wrist arteries, both events coinciding with the disappearance of the Grundle servant, a girl named Nellie Hearthstone.
Busily engaged on his endless harvests, Death casts frenetic shadows among the indifferent redwoods, a ceaseless flickering that dances across their massive trunks with no effect, like the dark equivalent of leaping firelight on hearthstones.
In view of the factions that divide my country and of the enmity of the greatest powers in Europe I have brought my political career to a close and am going like Themistocles to seat myself on the hearthstone of the British people.
The hearthstone is an enormous block of trap rock, with a surface not perfectly even, but a capital place to crack butternuts on.
She felt the fragment catch fire and hastily scraped it off her hands onto the hearthstone.
The yurt had no windows, but a hole in the roof had been cut over a fireplace of hearthstones, where lumps of dried dung burned continually.
It hit the hardwood floor wkh a splat, hopped once to reach the hearthstone, and disappeared beneath the pitted gray rock like a duck diving under water.
Their voices filled the hail from hearthstone to rooftree, and I trembled inside myself: Llew, the name of Albion's savior, was now my name.
My chair and Hap's stool were by the hearth, but we ended up sitting on the hearthstones by the dying fire.
Nighteyes would never again sprawl beside him on the hearthstones, never nudge his hand to have his ears scratched, never walk at his side to hunt rabbits again.
The man’s blood must fall on the hearthstones of her mother’s house for that mingling to be auspicious.
But you might offer some of your blood to the hearthstones of the Prince’s mother, if you are so minded.