Heat

a. [A.S. hætan.] To make hot; to communicate heat to, or cause to be warm; to endue with the quality of caloric; applied-1. To inanimate objects; as, to heat an oven, to heat iron, to heat water, or the like. 2. To animal bodies; - hence, to excite; to make feverish; to rouse to action; as, to heat the blood. "When he was well heated, the younger champion could not stand before him." - Dryden. 3. To the pa ions: - hence, to kindle; to inflame; to warm to exce , as with desire; to make ardent or fervent. "A noble emulation heats your breast." - Dryden. -v. n. To grow warm or hot by the action of fire, or the application of caloric; as, the rooms need heating. -To grow warm or hot by fermentation, or chemical evap-| oration; as, grain heats in a ship's hold. Heat, imp. and pp. of HEAT. Formerly used for heated, and occasionally employed, colloquially, at the present day.