Definition of heat

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Heat (n.) Sexual excitement in animals.

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Ethnic :: Ethnic (n.) A heathen; a pagan.
Sheathing :: Sheathing (p. pr. & a.) Inclosing with a sheath; as, the sheathing leaves of grasses; the sheathing stipules of many polygonaceous plants..
Boil :: Boil (v.) To pass from a liquid to an aeriform state or vapor when heated; as, the water boils away..
Heathen :: Heathen (a.) Gentile; pagan; as, a heathen author..
Thermovoltaic :: Thermovoltaic (a.) Of or relating to heat and electricity; especially, relating to thermal effects produced by voltaic action..
Calorifere :: Calorifere (n.) An apparatus for conveying and distributing heat, especially by means of hot water circulating in tubes..
Heat :: Heat (n.) 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..
Guard :: Guard (v. t.) The fibrous sheath which covers the phragmacone of the Belemnites.
Caloricity :: Caloricity (n.) A faculty in animals of developing and preserving the heat necessary to life, that is, the animal heat..
Torrid :: Torrid (a.) Violenty hot; drying or scorching with heat; burning; parching.
Water Bath :: Water bath () A device for regulating the temperature of anything subjected to heat, by surrounding the vessel containing it with another vessel containing water which can be kept at a desired temperature; also, a vessel designed for this purpose..
Pyrophane :: Pyrophane (n.) A mineral which is opaque in its natural state, but is said to change its color and become transparent by heat..
Wet :: Wet (superl.) Employing, or done by means of, water or some other liquid; as, the wet extraction of copper, in distinction from dry extraction in which dry heat or fusion is employed..
Steam :: Steam (n.) The elastic, aeriform fluid into which water is converted when heated to the boiling points; water in the state of vapor..
Overreacher :: Overreacher (n.) One who overreaches; one who cheats; a cheat.
Excheator :: Excheator (n.) See Escheator.
Fuse :: Fuse (v. t.) To liquefy by heat; to render fiuid; to dissolve; to melt.
Sell :: Sell (n.) An imposition; a cheat; a hoax.
Pyroelectric :: Pyroelectric (a.) Pertaining to, or dependent on, pyroelectricity; receiving electric polarity when heated..
Feverish :: Feverish (a.) Having a fever; suffering from, or affected with, a moderate degree of fever; showing increased heat and thirst; as, the patient is feverish..
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