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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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... nature which we have to work against. The plain truth is that people want war. They want it anyhow; for itself, and apart from each and every possible consequence. It is the final bouquet of life's fireworks. The born soldiers want it hot and actual. The non-combatants want it in the background, and always as an open possibility, to feed imagination on and keep excitement going. Its clerical and historical defenders fool themselves when they talk as they do about it. ...
— Memories and Studies • William James
... quoted, "that if a woman looked about for a man to advise her, she'd find him! And as I sit here now, in this lovely home, I think—isn't it sweeter and wiser and better this way? For a while,—because I was a hot-headed, rebellious girl!—I couldn't see that he was right. I had had a disappointment, you know," she went on, her kind, mild eyes watering. Genevieve, who had been gazing in some astonishment at the once hot-headed, rebellious girl, sighed sympathetically. Every one knew ...
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... this refuge, not a living form appeared to dispute his sovereignty of the desert world. His feet sank deep in the sand, then trod lightly over vast stretches of short sun-burned mesquit, then again traversed hot shifting reaches of naked sand. The mountains seemed to recede as he advanced, and at times stifling dust and relentless heat threatened to overpower him. With dogged determination he told himself that he might be forced to drop from utter exhaustion, but it would not be yet—not ...
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... thoughts. A sudden flush swept over her face and neck and she dropped her eyes. Silently I placed a chair for her; as she took it, her bare arm rested against my hand. The effect on me, in the stress of my feelings at that moment, is indescribable. I know I gasped—and my throat got hot and my heart ...
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