Definition of temper

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Temper (n.) Constitution of body; temperament; in old writers, the mixture or relative proportion of the four humors, blood, choler, phlegm, and melancholy..

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Huffiness :: Huffiness (n.) The state of being huffish; petulance; bad temper.
Spunky :: Spunk (n.) An inflammable temper; spirit; mettle; pluck; as, a man of spunk..
Temperateness :: Temperateness (n.) The quality or state of being temperate; moderateness; temperance.
Constitution :: Constitution (n.) The aggregate of mental qualities; temperament.
Attemper :: Attemper (v. t.) To mix in just proportion; to regulate; as, a mind well attempered with kindness and justice..
Pyrogenic :: Pyrogenic (a.) Producing heat; -- said of substances, as septic poisons, which elevate the temperature of the body and cause fever..
Palearctic :: Palearctic (a.) Belonging to a region of the earth's surface which includes all Europe to the Azores, Iceland, and all temperate Asia..
Delay :: Delay (n.) To allay; to temper.
Disposition :: Disposition (n.) Natural or prevailing spirit, or temperament of mind, especially as shown in intercourse with one's fellow-men; temper of mind..
Wool :: Wool (n.) The soft and curled, or crisped, species of hair which grows on sheep and some other animals, and which in fineness sometimes approaches to fur; -- chiefly applied to the fleecy coat of the sheep, which constitutes a most essential material of clothing in all cold and temperate climates..
Attemperate :: Attemperate (a.) Tempered; proportioned; properly adapted.
Crapulence :: Crapulence (n.) The sickness occasioned by intemperance; surfeit.
Distemper :: Distemper (v. t.) Political disorder; tumult.
Ill-natured :: Ill-natured (a.) Of habitual bad temper; peevish; fractious; cross; crabbed; surly; as, an ill-natured person..
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..
Distemper :: Distemper (v. t.) To derange the functions of, whether bodily, mental, or spiritual; to disorder; to disease..
Blood :: Blood (n.) Temper of mind; disposition; state of the passions; -- as if the blood were the seat of emotions.
Cowleeching :: Cowleeching (n.) Healing the distemper of cows.
Hypsometer :: Hypsometer (n.) An instrument for measuring heights by observation of barometric pressure; esp., one for determining heights by ascertaining the boiling point of water. It consists of a vessel for water, with a lamp for heating it, and an inclosed thermometer for showing the temperature of ebullition..
Rot :: Rot (n.) A fatal distemper which attacks sheep and sometimes other animals. It is due to the presence of a parasitic worm in the liver or gall bladder. See 1st Fluke, 2..
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