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ighten. [R.] Which from the first has shone on ages past, Enlights the present, and shall warm the last. Pope.

iasm is founded neither on reason nor divine revelation, but rises from the conceits of a warmed or overweening imagination. Locke.

A suffix used to form the comparative degree of adjectives and adverbs; as, warmer, sooner, lat(e)er, earl(y)ier.

A heating or warming; calefaction. [Obs.] Blount.

Serving to heat; warming. [Obs.] Cotgrave.

Heating; warming. [Obs.] Holland.

A stout woolen cloth of great thickness; dreadnaught; also, a warm garment.

Feeling; perception. [R.] To intercept and have a more kindly feel of its genial warmth. Hazlitt.

The state of being fervent or warm; ardor; warmth of feeling or devotion; eagerness. When you pray, let it be with attention, with fervency, and with perseverance. Wake.

Warm in feeling; ardent in temperament; earnest; full of fervor; zealous; glowing. Not slothful in business; fervent in spirit. Rom. iii. 11. So spake the fervent angel. Milton. A fervent desire to promote the happiness of mankind. Macaulay. -- Fer"vent*ly, adv. -- Fer"vent*ness, n. Laboring fervently for you in praye…

Heat; excessive warmth. The fevor of ensuing day. Waller.

upply to; to furnish with as mush as is desired or desirable; to occupy the whole of; to swarm in or overrun. And God blessed them, saying. Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas. Gen. i. 22. The Syrians filled the country. 1 Kings xx. 27.

Ardor of passion, whether love or hate; excessive warmth; consumingviolence of temper. he had fire in his temper.Atterbury.

, spirit, etc., stirred and heated by a hot iron. Flip dog, an iron used, when heated, to warm flip.

fins. These fishes belong to several species of the genus Exocoetus, and are found in the warmer parts of all the oceans.

A warm dry wind that often blows in the northern valleys of the Alps, due to the indraught of a storm center passing over Central Europe. The wind, heated by compression in its descent from the mountains, reaches the base, particularly in winter, dry and warm.

To apply a warm lotion to; to bathe with a cloth or sponge wet with warm water or medicated liquid.

The act of fomenting; the application of warm, soft, medicinal substances, as for the purpose of easing pain, by relaxing the skin, or of discussing tumors.

A metallic stand with four feet, for keeping anything warm before a fire.

The nest or dwelling of a swarm of ants; an ant-hill.