King James Bible Dictionary

WARM, adjective Waurm. [G. See Swarm.]

1. Having heat in a moderate degree; not cold; as warm blood; warm milk. The flesh of living animals is warm if their blood is warm But some animals have not warm blood.

2. Subject o heat; having prevalence of heat, or little or no winter; as the warm climate of Egypt.

3. Zealous; ardent; as, to be warm in the cause of our country or of religion.

Each warm wish springs mutual from the heart.

4. Habitually ardent or passionate; keen; irritable; as a warm temper.

5. Easily excited or provoked; irritable; as warm passions.

6. Violent; furious; as a warm contest. We shall have warm work to-day.

7. Busy in action; heated in action; ardent. Be warm in fight.

8. Fanciful; enthusiastic; as a warm head.

9. Vigorous; sprightly.

Now warm in youth, now withering in thy bloom, lost in a convents solitary gloom.

WARM, verb transitive

1. To communicate a moderate degree of heat to; as, a stove warms an apartment. The sun in summer warms the earth, and gives life to vegetation.

2. To make engaged or earnest; to interest; to engage; to excite ardor or zeal in; as, to warm the heart with love or zeal.

I formerly warmed my head with reading controversial writings.

WARM, verb intransitive

1. To become moderately heated. The earth soon warms in a clear day in summer.

2. To become ardent or animated. The speaker should warm as he proceeds in the argument, for as he becomes animated, he excites more interest in his audience.

WARMED, participle passive Moderately heated; made ardent; excited.

WARMING, participle present tense Making moderately hot; making ardent or zealous.

WARMING-PAN, noun [warm and pan.] A covered pan with a long handle, for warming a bed with ignited coals.

WARMING-STONE, noun [warm and stone.] A stone dug in cornwall, which retains heat a great while, and has been found to give ease in internal hemorrhoids.

WARMLY, adverb

1. With gentle heat.

2. Eagerly; earnestly; ardently; as, to espouse warmly the cause of Bible societies.

WARMNESS, WARMTH noun

1. Gentle heat; as the WARMTH of the blood.

2. Zeal; ardor; fervor; as the WARMTH of love or of piety.

3. Earnestness; eagerness. The cause of the Greeks has been espoused with WARMTH by all parties in free countries.

4. Excitement; animation; as the WARMTH of passion. The preacher declaimed with great WARMTH against the vices of the age.

5. Fancifulness; enthusiasm; as the WARMTH of head.

6. In painting, the fiery effect given to a red color by a small addition of yellow.