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 Hearth Money.Heathen. 
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E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
 
Heat.
 
One course in a race; activity, action.   1
       
“Feigned Zeal, you saw, set out with speedier pace,
But the last heat Plain Dealing won the race.”
       
Dryden.
 


 Hearth Money.Heathen. 

 
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