Definition of heat

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Heat (n.) A force in nature which is recognized in various effects, but especially in the phenomena of fusion and evaporation, and which, as manifested in fire, the sun's rays, mechanical action, chemical combination, etc., becomes directly known to us through the sense of feeling. In its nature heat is a mode if motion, being in general a form of molecular disturbance or vibration. It was formerly supposed to be a subtile, imponderable fluid, to which was given the name caloric..

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Stonechat :: Stonechat (n.) The wheatear.
Difference :: Difference (n.) The act of differing; the state or measure of being different or unlike; distinction; dissimilarity; unlikeness; variation; as, a difference of quality in paper; a difference in degrees of heat, or of light; what is the difference between the innocent and the guilty?.
Cephalostyle :: Cephalostyle (n.) The anterior end of the notochord and its bony sheath in the base of cartilaginous crania.
Donatory :: Donatory (n.) A donee of the crown; one the whom, upon certain condition, escheated property is made over..
Theatric :: Theatric (a.) Theatrical.
Jockey :: Jockey (v. i.) To play or act the jockey; to cheat.
Weld :: Weld (v. t.) To press or beat into intimate and permanent union, as two pieces of iron when heated almost to fusion..
Meteorology :: Meteorology (n.) The science which treats of the atmosphere and its phenomena, particularly of its variations of heat and moisture, of its winds, storms, etc..
Coupon :: Coupon (n.) A section of a ticket, showing the holder to be entitled to some specified accomodation or service, as to a passage over a designated line of travel, a particular seat in a theater, or the like..
Whittle :: Whittle (n.) A knife; esp., a pocket, sheath, or clasp knife..
Bald :: Bald (a.) Destitute of a beard or awn; as, bald wheat..
Colosseum :: Colosseum (n.) The amphitheater of Vespasian in Rome.
Thermomagnetism :: Thermomagnetism (n.) Magnetism as affected or caused by the action of heat; the relation of heat to magnetism.
Frumentarious :: Frumentarious (a.) Of or pertaining to wheat or grain.
Griddlecake :: Griddlecake (n.) A cake baked or fried on a griddle, esp. a thin batter cake, as of buckwheat or common flour..
Egregiously :: Egregiously (adv.) Greatly; enormously; shamefully; as, egregiously cheated..
Parterre :: Parterre (n.) The pit of a theater; the parquet.
Firlot :: Firlot (n.) A dry measure formerly used in Scotland; the fourth part of a boll of grain or meal. The Linlithgow wheat firlot was to the imperial bushel as 998 to 1000; the barley firlot as 1456 to 1000.
Pyrometer :: Pyrometer (n.) An instrument for measuring degrees of heat above those indicated by the mercurial thermometer.
Temperament :: Temperament (v. t.) Condition with regard to heat or cold; temperature.
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