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Hot   /hɑt/   Listen
adjective
Hot  adj.  (compar. hotter; superl. hottest)  
1.
Having much sensible heat; exciting the feeling of warmth in a great degree; very warm; opposed to cold, and exceeding warm in degree; as, a hot stove; hot water or air. "A hotvenison pasty."
2.
Characterized by heat, ardor, or animation; easily excited; firely; vehement; passionate; violent; eager. "Achilles is impatient, hot, and revengeful." "There was mouthing in hot haste."
3.
Lustful; lewd; lecherous.
4.
Acrid; biting; pungent; as, hot as mustard.
Hot bed (Iron Manuf.), an iron platform in a rolling mill, on which hot bars, rails, etc., are laid to cool.
Hot wall (Gardening), a wall provided with flues for the conducting of heat, to hasten the growth of fruit trees or the ripening of fruit.
Hot well (Condensing Engines), a receptacle for the hot water drawn from the condenser by the air pump. This water is returned to the boiler, being drawn from the hot well by the feed pump.
In hot water (Fig.), in trouble; in difficulties. (Colloq.)
Synonyms: Burning; fiery; fervid; glowing; eager; animated; brisk; vehement; precipitate; violent; furious; ardent; fervent; impetuous; irascible; passionate; hasty; excitable.


verb
Hight  v. t. & v. i.  (past hight, hot; past part. hight, hote, hoten)  
1.
To be called or named. (Archaic & Poetic.) Note: In the form hight, it is used in a passive sense as a present, meaning is called or named, also as a preterite, was called or named. This form has also been used as a past participle. See Hote. "The great poet of Italy, That highte Dante." "Bright was her hue, and Geraldine she hight." "Entered then into the church the Reverend Teacher. Father he hight, and he was, in the parish." "Childe Harold was he hight."
2.
To command; to direct; to impel. (Obs.) "But the sad steel seized not where it was hight Upon the child, but somewhat short did fall."
3.
To commit; to intrust. (Obs.) "Yet charge of them was to a porter hight."
4.
To promise. (Obs.) "He had hold his day, as he had hight."


Hote  v. t. & v. i.  (past hatte, hot, etc.; past part. hote, hoten, hot, etc.)  
1.
To command; to enjoin. (Obs.)
2.
To promise. (Obs.)
3.
To be called; to be named. (Obs.) "There as I was wont to hote Arcite, Now hight I Philostrate, not worth a mite."


Hot  v.  Imp. & p. p. of Hote. (Obs.)





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... then that she was making his shirts! It made me both hot and cold at once. What must Ernest think ...
— Stepping Heavenward • Mrs. E. Prentiss
... [Laughter.] On the old-fashioned training days the most sober men were apt to take a day to themselves. Many of the familiar drinks of to-day were unknown to them, but their hard cider, mint julep, metheglin, hot toddy, and lemonade in which the lemon was not at all prominent, sometimes made lively work for the broad-brimmed hats and silver knee-buckles. Talk of dissipating parties of to-day and keeping of late hours! Why, did they not have their "bees" and sausage-stuffings and tea-parties and ...
— Modern Eloquence: Vol III, After-Dinner Speeches P-Z • Various
... at a time when the climate did not seem to vary greatly, either hot or cold. The flora was modern enough to give them a homelike feeling. The fauna, modern and Pleistocenic, overlapped. And the surface features were little altered from the twentieth century. The rivers ran along familiar paths, ...
— Project Mastodon • Clifford Donald Simak
... dog! I felt my hair rise on end and my face glow like red-hot iron. For the rest, everybody burst out laughing, and from that moment the supper went ...
— Serge Panine • Georges Ohnet
... you were never hot, Nor large, nor full like hearts made great with shot; And though your hand be pale, Paler are all which trail Your cross through flame and hail: Weep, you may weep, for you may touch ...
— Poems • Wilfred Owen


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