Hot

hot, adj. having heat: very warm: fiery: pungent: animated: ardent in temper: fervent: vehement: violent: pa ionate: lustful.— adj. Hot′-and-hot′ , of food cooked and served up at once in hot dishes.— ns. Hot′bed , a gla -covered bed heated for bringing forward plants rapidly: any place favourable to rapid growth or development, as 'a hotbed of vice,' .; Hot′blast , a blast of heated air blown into a furnace to raise the heat.— adjs. Hot′-blood′ed , having hot blood: high-spirited: irritable; Hot′-brained , hot-headed, rash and violent.— n. Hot′-cock′les , an old game in which a person is blindfolded, and being struck, gue es who strikes him; Hot′-flue , a drying-room.— adj. Hot′-head′ed , hot in the head: having warm pa ions: violent: impetuous.— n. Hot′-house , a house kept hot for the rearing of tender plants: any heated chamber or drying-room, esp. that where pottery is placed before going into the kiln: ( Shak. ) a brothel.— adv. Hot′ly .— adj. Hot′-mouthed , headstrong.— n. Hot′ne ; Hot′-pot , a dish of chopped mutton seasoned and stewed with sliced potatoes.— v.t. Hot′pre , to pre paper, ., between hot plates to produce a glo y surface.— adjs. Hot′-short , brittle when heated; Hot′-spir′ited , having a fiery spirit.— n. , one pre ing his steed with spurs as in hot haste: a violent, rash man.— adj. Hot′-tem′pered , having a quick temper.— ns. Hot′-trod , the hot pursuit in old Border forays; Hot′-wall , a wall enclosing pa ages for hot air, affording warmth to fruit-trees trained against it, when needed; Hot′-well , in a condensing engine, a reservoir for the warm water drawn off from the condenser.— Hot coppers (see Copper ); Hot cro -buns (see Cro ); Hot foot , with speed, fast; In hot water , in a state of trouble or anxiety; Make a place too hot to hold a person , to make it impo ible for him to stay there. [A.S. hát ; Ger. hei , Sw. het .]