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A pan for warming beds. Nares.

A hive for a swarm of bees. Also used figuratively.

the Southern United States. It is a native of Southern Europe, but is now wide-spread in warm countries; -- called also scutch grass, and in Bermuda, devil grass.

A nest of wild bees, wasps, or ants; a swarm. [Scot.] Sir W. Scott.

A warm-blooded, feathered vertebrate provided with wings. See Aves.

s tree (Eucalyptus globulus), of the loftiest proportions, now cultivated in tropical and warm temperate regions for its timber, and as a protection against malaria. The essential oil is beginning to be used in medicine. The timber is very useful. See Eucalyptus. -- Blue jack, Blue stone, blue vitriol; sulphate of cop…

To have a warm and delicate color, as some roses and other flowers. Full many a flower is born to blush unseen. T. Gray.

Showing blushes; rosy red; having a warm and delicate color like some roses and other flowers; blooming; ruddy; roseate. The dappled pink and blushing rose. Prior.

To steep or soak in warm water. [Obs.] To try whether seeds be old or new, the sense can not inform; but if you boil them in water, the new seeds will sprout sooner. Bacon. To boil down, to reduce in bulk by boiling; as, to boil down sap or sirup.

ess of respiration, has parted with oxygen and has received carbonic acid, aqueous vapor, warmth, etc. Melted as breath into the wind. Shak.

To sit on and cover eggs, as a fowl, for the purpose of warming them and hatching the young; or to sit over and cover young, as a hen her chickens, in order to warm and protect them; hence, to sit quietly, as if brooding. Birds of calm sir brooding on the charmed wave. Milton.

he genus Bos or Bubalus (B. bubalus), originally from India, but now found in most of the warmer countries of the eastern continent. It is larger and less docile than the common ox, and is fond of marshy places and rivers.

d off in a hurry, or without ceremony. -- To bundle one's self up, to wrap one's self up warmly or cumbrously.

less stems and branches, often beset with clustered thorns, and are mostly natives of the warmer parts of America. Cactus wren (Zoöl.), an American wren of the genus Campylorhynchus, of several species.

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.

An apartment in a monastery, warmed and used as a sitting room.

To make warm or hot.

Growing warmth; increasing heat.

tout spines, and resembling the military instrument of the same name. The species grow in warm countries, and are often very annoying to cattle.