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Warm   /wɔrm/   Listen
adjective
Warm  adj.  (compar. warmer; superl. warmest)  
1.
Having heat in a moderate degree; not cold as, warm milk. "Whose blood is warm within." "Warm and still is the summer night."
2.
Having a sensation of heat, esp. of gentle heat; glowing.
3.
Subject to heat; having prevalence of heat, or little or no cold weather; as, the warm climate of Egypt.
4.
Fig.: Not cool, indifferent, lukewarm, or the like, in spirit or temper; zealous; ardent; fervent; excited; sprightly; irritable; excitable. "Mirth, and youth, and warm desire!" "Each warm wish springs mutual from the heart." "I had been none of the warmest of partisans."
5.
Violent; vehement; furious; excited; passionate; as, a warm contest; a warm debate. "Welcome, daylight; we shall have warm work on't."
6.
Being well off as to property, or in good circumstances; forehanded; rich. (Colloq.) "Warm householders, every one of them." "You shall have a draft upon him, payable at sight: and let me tell you he as warm a man as any within five miles round him."
7.
In children's games, being near the object sought for; hence, being close to the discovery of some person, thing, or fact concealed. (Colloq.)
8.
(Paint.) Having yellow or red for a basis, or in their composition; said of colors, and opposed to cold which is of blue and its compounds.
Synonyms: Ardent; zealous; fervent; glowing; enthusiastic; cordial; keen; violent; furious; hot.



verb
Warm  v. t.  (past & past part. warmed; pres. part. warming)  
1.
To communicate a moderate degree of heat to; to render warm; to supply or furnish heat to; as, a stove warms an apartment. "Then shall it (an ash tree) be for a man to burn; for he will take thereof and warm himself." "Enough to warm, but not enough to burn."
2.
To make engaged or earnest; to interest; to engage; to excite ardor or zeal; to enliven. "I formerly warmed my head with reading controversial writings." "Bright hopes, that erst bosom warmed."



Warm  v. i.  
1.
To become warm, or moderately heated; as, the earth soon warms in a clear day summer. "There shall not be a coal to warm at."
2.
To become ardent or animated.



noun
Warm  n.  The act of warming, or the state of being warmed; a warming; a heating. (Colloq.)






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... models of pure taste and true art should be studied again in a different spirit from that of professorial pedantry. Now, after the Thirty Years' War, there was no war in Germany in which the nation took any warm interest. The policy pursued in France during the long reign of Louis XIV. (1643-1708) had its chief aim in weakening the house of Hapsburg. When the Protestants would no longer fight his battles, Louis roused the Turks. Vienna was nearly taken, and Austria owed its delivery ...
— Chips From A German Workshop. Vol. III. • F. Max Mueller

... they drew their isobars, the pattern for the northern hemisphere emerged. A giant high pressure system with its center in northern Oklahoma promised warm fair weather across America. Another, centered east of the Ural Mountains, forecast clear weather for most of Europe and ...
— Warning from the Stars • Ron Cocking

... shivering himself as the cold pierced through his wet mail; and as near an hour past, and no sign of foe or friend appeared, he cursed the hour in which he took off the beautiful garments of the sanctuary to endure those of the battle-field. He thought of a warm chamber, warm bath, warm footcloths, warm pheasant, and warm wine. He kicked his freezing iron feet in the freezing iron stirrup. He tried to blow his nose with his freezing iron hand; but dropt his handkerchief into the mud, and his horse trod on ...
— Hereward, The Last of the English • Charles Kingsley

... Cetacea, including the most colossal of all animated beings. From their general form and mode of life they are frequently confounded with fish, from which, however, they differ essentially in their organization, as they are warm-blooded, ascend to the surface to breathe air, produce their young alive, and suckle them, as do the land mammalia. The cetacea are divided into two sections:—1. Those having horny plates, called baleen, or "whalebone," growing from the palate instead of teeth, and including the right whales ...
— The Sailor's Word-Book • William Henry Smyth

... wings, heavy with heat and color, that flutter, but do not lift it off the ground. The month comes and goes, and not once do I think of lifting my eyes to the stars. The very sunbeams fall on the body as a warm golden net, and keep thought and feeling from escape. Nature uses beauty now not to uplift, but to entice. I find her intent upon the one general business of seeing that no type of her creatures gets left out of the generations. Studied in my yard full of birds, as with a condensing-glass ...
— A Kentucky Cardinal • James Lane Allen


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