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a. & n. from Warm, v. Warming pan, a long-handled covered pan into which live coals are put, -- used for warming beds. Shak.

A feast or merry-making made by or for a family or business firm on taking possession of a new house or premises. Johnson.

To expose to heat, for the purpose of expelling dampness, or of warming; as, to air linen; to air liquors.

An exposure to air, or to a fire, for warming, drying, etc.; as, the airing of linen, or of a room.

Any sound or information intended to give notice of approaching danger; a warming sound to arouse attention; a warning of danger. Sound an alarm in my holy mountain. Joel ii. 1.

Exhibiting the activity and motion of many living beings; swarming; thronged. The Boyne, for a quarter of a mile, was alive with muskets and green boughs. Macaulay.

t water in which another vessel may be heated without scorching its contents; -- used for warming or preparing food or pharmaceutical preparations.

A pan for warming beds. Nares.

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.

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.

or less of the intestines in mammals; the great omentum See Omentum. The caul serves for warming of the lower belly. Ray.

ails, as a timber, or a boot sole. Clouted cream, clotted cream, i. e., cream obtained by warming new milk. A. Philips.

An herb (Peucedanum graveolens), the seeds of which are moderately warming, pungent, and aromatic, and were formerly used as a soothing medicine for children; -- called also dill-seed. Dr. Prior.

A sheet iron radiator, often in the shape of a drum, for warming an apartment by means of heat received from a stovepipe, or a cylindrical receiver for steam, etc.

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

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

Heating; warming. [Obs.] Holland.

h heat is produced by the combustion of fuel, as for reducing ores or melting metals, for warming a house, for baking pottery, etc.; as, an iron furnace; a hot-air furnace; a glass furnace; a boiler furnace, etc.

A warming cathartic medicine, made of aloes and canella bark. Dunglison.

A place swarming with busy occupants; a crowd. The hive of Roman liars. Tennyson. Hive bee (Zoöl.), the honeybee.