To make otherwise; to change in some respect, either partially or wholly; to vary; to modify.
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A force in nature which is recognized in various effects, but especially in the phenomena of fusion and evaporation, and which, as manifested in fire, the sun's rays, mechanical action, chemical combination, etc., becomes directly known to us through the sense of feeling. In its nature heat is a mode if motion, being in general a form of molecular disturbance or vibration. It was formerly supposed to be a subtile, imponderable fluid, to which was given the name caloric.
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To make otherwise; to change in some respect, either partially or wholly; to vary; to modify.
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To excite to action from a state of rest; to stir, or put in motion or exertion; to rouse; to excite; as, to arouse one from sleep; to arouse the dor…
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To alter; to make different; to cause to pass from one state to another; as, to change the position, character, or appearance of a thing; to change t…
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Elicited; drawn out; made real; open; evident.
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The cultivation of an emotional state of mind; tendency to regard things in an emotional manner.
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Internal or inherent power; capacity of acting, operating, or producing an effect, whether exerted or not; as, men possessing energies may suffer the…
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To set on fire; to inflame; to kindle.
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To call out; to summon forth.
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The evolution of light and heat in the combustion of bodies; combustion; state of ignition.
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To supply with anything necessary, useful, or appropriate; to provide; to equip; to fit out, or fit up; to adorn; as, to furnish a family with provis…
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To bring forth young.
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To change somewhat the form or qualities of; to alter somewhat; as, to modify a contrivance adapted to some mechanical purpose; to modify the terms o…
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To present, as an act of worship; to immolate; to sacrifice; to present in prayer or devotion; -- often with up.
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To look out for in advance; to procure beforehand; to get, collect, or make ready for future use; to prepare.
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To call forth; to call into being or action; esp., to incense to action, a faculty or passion, as love, hate, or ambition; hence, commonly, to incite…
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To raze.
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To cause to rise; to bring from a lower to a higher place; to lift upward; to elevate; to heave; as, to raise a stone or weight.
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One who rends.
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To fill up, or keep full; to furnish with what is wanted; to afford, or furnish with, a sufficiency; as, rivers are supplied by smaller streams; an a…
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Constitution; state; degree of any quality.
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To cause to move upon a center, or as if upon a center; to give circular motion to; to cause to revolve; to cause to move round, either partially, wh…
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The quality or state of being useful; usefulness; production of good; profitableness to some valuable end; as, the utility of manure upon land; the u…
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To prepare, as food, by cooking in a dry heat, either in an oven or under coals, or on heated stone or metal; as, to bake bread, meat, apples.
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A tumult; a noisy quarrel; a disturbance; a brawl; contention; discord, either between individuals or in the state.
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To reduce to a powder, or to a friable state, by the action of heat; to expel volatile matter from by means of heat, as carbonic acid from limestone,…
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Curling in stiff curls or ringlets; as, crisp hair.
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That which causes fermentation, as yeast, barm, or fermenting beer.
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To cook in a pan or on a griddle (esp. with the use of fat, butter, or olive oil) by heating over a fire; to cook in boiling lard or fat; as, to fry…
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To heat to excess; to superheat.
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To heat again.
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To burn with hot liquid or steam; to pain or injure by contact with, or immersion in, any hot fluid; as, to scald the hand.
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To burn superficially; to parch, or shrivel, the surface of, by heat; to subject to so much heat as changes color and texture without consuming; as,…
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Alt. of Sere
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To cause or suffer to lie in a fluid till the substance has imbibed what it can contain; to macerate in water or other liquid; to steep, as for the p…
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To dry and brown by the heat of a fire; as, to toast bread.
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The act of warming or heating; the production of heat in a body by the action of fire, or by communication of heat from other bodies.
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The quality of being fiery; heat; acrimony; irritability; as, a fieriness of temper.
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The state of being incalescent, or of growing warm.
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Torridness.
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Warmth.
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The quality or state of being warm; gentle heat; as, the warmth of the sun; the warmth of the blood; vital warmth.
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One who, or that which, heats.
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One who, or that which, heats.
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of Heat
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of Heat
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The quality or state of being hot.
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The quality or state of being hot.
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One who boils.
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That which radiates or emits rays, whether of light or heat; especially, that part of a heating apparatus from which the heat is radiated or diffused…
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A building; a structure; an architectural fabric; -- chiefly applied to elegant houses, and other large buildings; as, a palace, a church, a statehou…
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To come in contact with; to hit or strike lightly against; to extend the hand, foot, or the like, so as to reach or rest on.
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To come in contact with; to hit or strike lightly against; to extend the hand, foot, or the like, so as to reach or rest on.
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of Heat
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The quality or state of being hot.
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To kindle or set on fire; as, to ignite paper or wood.
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To set on fire; to kindle; to cause to burn, flame, or glow.
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A genus of gadflies. The species which deposits its larvae in the nasal cavities of sheep is oestrus ovis.
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A suffering or enduring of imposed or inflicted pain; any suffering or distress (as, a cardiac passion); specifically, the suffering of Christ betwee…
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Sexual desire or oestrus of deer, cattle, and various other mammals; heat; also, the period during which the oestrus exists.
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The track left by a vessel in the water; by extension, any track; as, the wake of an army.
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The quality or state of being warm; gentle heat; as, the warmth of the sun; the warmth of the blood; vital warmth.
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A moderate but disagreeable degree of cold; a disagreeable sensation of coolness, accompanied with shivering.
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A moderate but disagreeable degree of cold; a disagreeable sensation of coolness, accompanied with shivering.
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