Definition of temper

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Temper (v. t.) To adjust, as the mathematical scale to the actual scale, or to that in actual use..

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Quick :: Quick (superl.) Impatient; passionate; hasty; eager; eager; sharp; unceremonious; as, a quick temper..
Low :: Low (superl.) Moderate; not intense; not inflammatory; as, low heat; a low temperature; a low fever..
Washingtonian :: Washingtonian (a.) Designating, or pertaining to, a temperance society and movement started in Baltimore in 1840 on the principle of total abstinence..
Complier :: Complier (n.) One who complies, yields, or obeys; one of an easy, yielding temper..
Crapulence :: Crapulence (n.) The sickness occasioned by intemperance; surfeit.
Nearctic :: Nearctic (a.) Of or pertaining to a region of the earth's surface including all of temperate and arctic North America and Greenland. In the geographical distribution of animals, this region is marked off as the habitat certain species..
Serenely :: Serenely (adv.) With unruffled temper; coolly; calmly.
Digester :: Digester (n.) A strong closed vessel, in which bones or other substances may be subjected, usually in water or other liquid, to a temperature above that of boiling, in order to soften them..
Condensation :: Condensation (n.) The act or process of reducing, by depression of temperature or increase of pressure, etc., to another and denser form, as gas to the condition of a liquid or steam to water..
Contemperation :: Contemperation (n.) Proportionate mixture or combination.
Fruit :: Fruit (v. t.) That which is produced; the effect or consequence of any action; advantageous or desirable product or result; disadvantageous or evil consequence or effect; as, the fruits of labor, of self-denial, of intemperance..
Hot-livered :: Hot-livered (a.) Of an excitable or irritable temperament; irascible.
Idiosyncrasy :: Idiosyncrasy (n.) A peculiarity of physical or mental constitution or temperament; a characteristic belonging to, and distinguishing, an individual; characteristic susceptibility; idiocrasy; eccentricity..
Attemperate :: Attemperate (v. t.) To attemper.
Butter :: Butter (n.) Any substance resembling butter in degree of consistence, or other qualities, especially, in old chemistry, the chlorides, as butter of antimony, sesquichloride of antimony; also, certain concrete fat oils remaining nearly solid at ordinary temperatures, as butter of cacao, vegetable butter, shea butter..
Bison :: Bison (n.) The American bison buffalo (Bison Americanus), a large, gregarious bovine quadruped with shaggy mane and short black horns, which formerly roamed in herds over most of the temperate portion of North America, but is now restricted to very limited districts in the region of the Rocky Mountains, and is rapidly decreasing in numbers..
Soberly :: Soberly (adv.) In a sober manner; temperately; cooly; calmly; gravely; seriously.
Distempering :: Distempering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Distempe.
Convection :: Convection (n.) A process of transfer or transmission, as of heat or electricity, by means of currents in liquids or gases, resulting from changes of temperature and other causes..
Bovine :: Bovine (a.) Having qualities characteristic of oxen or cows; sluggish and patient; dull; as, a bovine temperament..
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