Heat

het, n. Caloric the force, agent, or principle in nature which renders bodies solid, fluid, or aeriform, and which we perceive through the sense of feeling; sensation caused by caloric, when present in exce ; high temperature, as disting. low temperature, or cold indication of high temperature; redne ; high color; flush; state of oeing once heated or hot a single effort, as in a race; a course; utmost violence, rage, vehemence; agitation of mind, exasperation animation in thougnt or discourse ardor; fermentation; sexual excitement in animals. — v. To make hot, communicate heat to, — said of inanimate objects also of animals, to excite by action, or make feverish; also of the pa ions, to inflame, excite. — v. To grow warm or hot by the action of fire, by fermentation, or by chemical ac- — tion. [AS. heatu, hat, hot, hsetan, to heat.] Heat'er, n. One who, or that which, heats any contrivance to impart heat to something else, or contain something to be heated.