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Having much sensible heat; exciting the feeling of warmth in a great degree; very warm; -- opposed to cold, and exceeding warm in degree; as, a hot stove; hot water or air. "A hotvenison pasty." Shak.

A house kept warm to shelter tender plants and shrubs from the cold air; a place in which the plants of warmer climates may be reared, and fruits ripened.

A device in an incubator for protecting the young chickens and keeping them warm.

A French Protestant of the period of the religious wars in France in the 16th century.

made more humane; to become civilized; to be ameliorated. By the original law of nations, war and extirpation were the punishment of injury. Humanizing by degrees, it admitted slavery instead of death; a further step was the exchange of prisoners instead of slavery. Franklin.

One of a warlike nomadic people of Northern Asia who, in the 5th century, under Atilla, invaded and conquered a great part of Europe.

g grounds, the region to which, according to the belief of American Indians, the souls of warriors and hunters pass after death, to be happy in hunting and feasting. Tylor. -- Hunting box. Same As Hunting lodge (below). -- Hunting cat (Zoöl.), the cheetah. -- Hunting cog (Mach.), a tooth in the larger of two geared…

A linguistic group of warlike North American Indians, belonging to the same stock as the Algonquins, and including several tribes, among which were the Five Nations. They formerly occupied the region about Lakes Erie and Ontario, and the larger part of New York.

; sing. Huron. (Ethnol.) A powerful and warlike tribe of North American Indians of the Algonquin stock. They formerly occupied the country between Lakes Huron, Erie, and Ontario, but were nearly exterminated by the Five Nations about 1650.

o make quiet; to repress the noise or clamor of. My tongue shall hush again this storm of war. Shak.

A plant (Hyssopus officinalis). The leaves have an aromatic smell, and a warm, pungent taste.

In an identical manner; with respect to identity. "Identically the same." Bp. Warburton. "Identically different." Ross.

Self-heating; warmed, as the body of animal, by process going on within itself.

Idiocy. [R.] Bp. Warburton.

written on a bill of indictment by a grand jury when there was not sufficient evidence to warrant them in finding it a true bill. The phrase now used is, "No bill," "No true bill," or "Not found," though in some jurisdictions "Ignored" is still used. Wharton (Law Dict. ). Burn.

still lake imaged the shore; the mirror imaged her figure. "Shrines of imaged saints." J. Warton.

Not warlike or martial. [Obs.] R. Junius.

In an immature manner. Warburion.

a fluid; to dip; to sink; to bury; to immerge. Deep immersed beneath its whirling wave. J Warton. More than a mile immersed within the wood. Dryden.

for the purpose of permanent residence. The immigrations of the Arabians into Europe. T. Warton.