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Relating to escheat, forfeiture, or confiscation.

A thin wafer-shaped mass of fried batter; a griddlecake or pancake; as buckwheat cakes.

he act or process of disintegrating a substance, or rendering it friable by the action of heat, esp. by the expulsion of some volatile matter, as when carbonic and acid is expelled from carbonate of calcium in the burning of limestone in order to make lime.

To reduce to a powder, or to a friable state, by the action of heat; to expel volatile matter from by means of heat, as carbonic acid from limestone, and thus (usually) to produce disintegration; as to, calcine bones.

Making warm; heating. [R.]

The act of warming or heating; the production of heat in a body by the action of fire, or by communication of heat from other bodies.

A heater; one who, or that which, makes hot, as a stove, etc.

Making hot; producing or communicating heat.

Growing warmth; increasing heat.

Heat. [Obs.]

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The conversion of obscure radiant heat info kight; the transmutation of rays of heat into others of higher refrangibility. Tyndall.

The principle of heat, or the agent to which the phenomena of heat and combustion were formerly ascribed; -- not now used in scientific nomenclature, but sometimes used as a general term for heat. Caloric expands all bodies. Henry.

A faculty in animals of developing and preserving the heat nesessary to life, that is, the animal heat.

A tube or duct for conducting heat; a caliduct.

The unit of heat according to the Frensc standard; the amount of heat requires to raise the temperature of one kilogram (sometimes, one gram) of water one degree centigrade, or from 0Foot pound.

An apparatus for conveying and distributing heat, especially by means of hot water circulating in tubes.

Possessing the quality of producing heat; heating. Calorific rays, the invisible, heating rays which emanate from the sum, and burning and heated bodies.

Production of heat, esp. animal heat.

Having, or relating to the power of producing heat; -- applied to foods which, being rich in carbon, as the fats, are supposed to give rise to heat in the animal body by oxidation.