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Something fit to be eaten; food; as, a peach is good eating. [Colloq.] Eating house, a house where cooked provisions are sold, to be eaten on the premises.

Pulsation; throbbing; as, the beating of the heart.

Crying as a sheep does. Then came the shepherd back with his bleating flocks from the seaside. Longfellow.

ing, with stern looks, suspercilious manners, or confident assertions. The imperious browbeating and scorn of great men. L'Estrange.

Shifting the sword from one side of an adversary's sword to the other.

In an entreating manner.

The art or process of reducing gold to extremely thin leaves, by beating with a hammer. Ure.

Preying on the heart.

That heats or imparts heat; promoting warmth or heat; exciting action; stimulating; as, heating medicines or applications. Heating surface (Steam Boilers), the aggregate surface exposed to fire or to the heated products of combustion, esp. of all the plates or sheets that are exposed to water on their opposite surfaces…

In a heating manner; so as to make or become hot or heated.

A kind of early apple. [Written also jenneting.]

Eating, or subsisting on, plants; as, a plant-eating beetle.

he same thing over again; accomplishing a given result many times in succession; as, a repeating firearm; a repeating watch. Repeating circle. See the Note under Circle, n., 3. -- Repeating decimal (Arith.), a circulating decimal. See under Decimal. -- Repeating firearm, a firearm that may be discharged many times in…

The act of providong with a seat or seats; as, the seating of an audience.

a. & n. from Sweat, v. Sweating bath, a bath producing sensible sweat; a stove or sudatory. -- Sweating house, a house for sweating persons in sickness. -- Sweating iron, a kind of knife, or a piece of iron, used to scrape off sweat, especially from horses; a horse scraper. -- Sweating room. (a) A room for sweating…

Tending to deceive; fraudulent; cheating. [Obs.] "An abusive treaty." Bacon.

eaning or reclining, as the ancients did at their meals. The Roman.. accumbent posture in eating. Arbuthnot.

An instrument for measuring the direct heating power of the sun's rays.

Pertaining to the measurement of the intensity of the solar rays, either (a) heating, or (b) actinic.

The act of burning, or heating to dryness; the state of being thus heated or dried. [Obs.] Harvey.