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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.

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

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.

A stove for heating a current of air which is directed against its surface by means of pipes, and then distributed through a building.

A white, crystalline, nitrogenous substance, C2O2N3H5, formed by heating urea. It is intermediate between urea and cyanuric acid.

To make blue; to dye of a blue color; to make blue by heating, as metals, etc.

To cheat; to gain by fraud or cheating; to filch. Gold and jewels that I bobbed from him. Shak.

d by the generation and rising of bubbles of steam (or vapor), or of currents produced by heating it to the boiling point; to be in a state of ebullition; as, the water boils.

osite structure variously formed, in which steam is generated for driving engines, or for heating, cooking, or other purposes.

n thread, so called because woven with bobbins of bone. -- Bone oil, an oil obtained by, heating bones (as in the manufacture of bone black), and remarkable for containing the nitrogenous bases, pyridine and quinoline, and their derivatives; -- also called Dippel's oil. -- Bone setter. Same as Bonesetter. See in the…

nal inhabitants. British gum, a brownish substance, very soluble in cold water, formed by heating dry starch at a temperature of about 600° Fahr. It corresponds, in its properties, to dextrin, and is used, in solution, as a substitute for gum in stiffering goods. -- British lion, the national emblem of Great Britain.…

A liquid ketone obtained by heating calcium butyrate.

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.

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

A voltaic battery, having a large surface of plate, and producing powerful heating effects.

Burnt sugar; a brown or black porous substance obtained by heating sugar. It is soluble in water, and is used for coloring spirits, gravies, etc.