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An assistant farmer.

Inharmonious; unsymmetrical; also, unmusical; discordant. Swift. -- Un`har*mo"ni*ous*ly, adv.

To lose warmth; to grow cold. [R.]

To rise, or cause to rise, in a swarm or swarms. [R.] Shak. Cowper.

Having heat in a moderate degree; not cold as, warm milk. "Whose blood is warm within." Shak. Warm and still is the summer night. Longfellow.

Having warm blood; -- applied especially to those animals, as birds and mammals, which have warm blood, or, more properly, the power of maintaining a nearly uniform temperature whatever the temperature of the surrounding air. See Homoiothermal.

Having strong affection; cordial; sincere; hearty; sympathetic. -- Warm"-heart`ed*ness, n.

One who, or that which, warms.

Abounding in capacity to warm; giving warmth; as, a warmful garment. [R.] Chapman.

a. & n. from Warm, v. Warming pan, a long-handled covered pan into which live coals are put, -- used for warming beds. Shak.

In a warm manner; ardently.

Warmth. Chaucer.

One who makes ar a trade or business; a mercenary. [R.] Spenser.

An American freshwater bream, or sunfish (Chænobryttus gulosus); -- called also red-eyed bream.

The quality or state of being warm; gentle heat; as, the warmth of the sun; the warmth of the blood; vital warmth. Here kindly warmth their mounting juice ferments. Addison.

Being without warmth; not communicating warmth; cold. [R.] Coleridge.

Either half of a square-rigged vessel's yard, from the center or mast to the end.

Astride; with a part on each side; -- used specif. in designating the position of an army with the wings separated by some line of demarcation, as a river or road.

for holding cups, bottles, or the like; a kind of cupboard, buffet, or sideboard. Abacus harmonicus (Mus.), an ancient diagram showing the structure and disposition of the keys of an instrument. Crabb.

A mystical word used as a charm and engraved on gems among the ancients; also, a gem stone thus engraved.