Definition of temper

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Temper (n.) Milk of lime, or other substance, employed in the process formerly used to clarify sugar..

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Qualifier :: Qualifier (n.) One who, or that which, qualifies; that which modifies, reduces, tempers or restrains..
Cold :: Cold (n.) Deprived of heat, or having a low temperature; not warm or hot; gelid; frigid..
Moderate :: Moderate (v. t.) To restrain from excess of any kind; to reduce from a state of violence, intensity, or excess; to keep within bounds; to make temperate; to lessen; to allay; to repress; to temper; to qualify; as, to moderate rage, action, desires, etc.; to moderate heat or wind..
Melt :: Melt (v. i.) To be changed from a solid to a liquid state under the influence of heat; as, butter and wax melt at moderate temperatures..
Acacia :: Acacia (n.) A genus of leguminous trees and shrubs. Nearly 300 species are Australian or Polynesian, and have terete or vertically compressed leaf stalks, instead of the bipinnate leaves of the much fewer species of America, Africa, etc. Very few are found in temperate climates..
Moroseness :: Moroseness (n.) Sourness of temper; sulenness.
Irascible :: Irascible (a.) Prone to anger; easily provoked or inflamed to anger; choleric; irritable; as, an irascible man; an irascible temper or mood..
Temperate :: Temperate (v. t.) To render temperate; to moderate; to soften; to temper.
Hibernaculum :: Hibernaculum (n.) A winter bud, in which the rudimentary foliage or flower, as of most trees and shrubs in the temperate zone, is protected by closely overlapping scales..
Homoiothermal :: Homoiothermal (a.) Maintaining a uniform temperature; haematothermal; homothermic; -- applied to warm-bodied animals, because they maintain a nearly uniform temperature in spite of the great variations in the surrounding air; in distinct from the cold-blooded (poikilothermal) animals, whose body temperature follows the variations in temperature of the surrounding medium..
Condition :: Condition (n.) Temperament; disposition; character.
Attempered :: Attempered (imp. & p. p.) of Attempe.
Thermometry :: Thermometry (n.) The estimation of temperature by the use of a thermometric apparatus.
Ohm :: Ohm (n.) The standard unit in the measure of electrical resistance, being the resistance of a circuit in which a potential difference of one volt produces a current of one ampere. As defined by the International Electrical Congress in 1893, and by United States Statute, it is a resistance substantially equal to 109 units of resistance of the C.G.S. system of electro-magnetic units, and is represented by the resistance offered to an unvarying electric current by a column of mercury at the tempera
Attemper :: Attemper (v. t.) To accommodate; to make suitable; to adapt.
Sanguine :: Sanguine (a.) Warm; ardent; as, a sanguine temper..
Termagancy :: Termagancy (n.) The quality or state of being termagant; turbulence; tumultuousness; as, a violent termagancy of temper..
Atmo :: Atmo (n.) The standard atmospheric pressure used in certain physical measurements calculations; conventionally, that pressure under which the barometer stands at 760 millimeters, at a temperature of 0ยก Centigrade, at the level of the sea, and in the latitude of Paris..
Vivacious :: Vivacious (a.) Sprightly in temper or conduct; lively; merry; as, a vivacious poet..
Hot-livered :: Hot-livered (a.) Of an excitable or irritable temperament; irascible.
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