Pray, walk softly; do not heat your blood.
Shak.
3. To excite ardor in; to rouse to action; to excite to excess; to
inflame, as the passions.
A noble emulation heats your breast.
Dryden.
Heat, v. i. 1. To grow warm or hot by the action of fire or friction,
etc., or the communication of heat; as, the iron or the water heats
slowly.
2. To grow warm or hot by fermentation, or the development of heat by
chemical action; as, green hay heats in a mow, and manure in the
dunghill.
Heat (ht), imp. & p. p. of Heat. Heated; as, the iron though heat red-
hot. [Obs. or Archaic] Shak.
Heat"er (ht"r), n. 1. One who, or that which, heats.
2. Any contrivance or implement, as a furnace, stove, or other heated
body or vessel, etc., used to impart heat to something, or to contain
something to be heated.
Feed heater. See under Feed.
Heath (hth), n. [OE. heth waste land, the plant heath, AS. h; akin to
D. & G. heide, Icel. heir waste land, Dan. hede, Sw. hed, Goth. hai˛i
field, L. bucetum a cow pasture; cf. W. coed a wood, Skr. kshtra field.
√20.] 1. (Bot.) (a) A low shrub (Erica, or Calluna, vulgaris),
with minute evergreen leaves, and handsome clusters of pink flowers. It
is used in Great Britain for brooms, thatch, beds for the poor, and for
heating ovens. It is also called heather, and ling. (b) Also, any
species of the genus Erica, of which several are European, and many
more are South African, some of great beauty. See Illust. of Heather.
2. A place overgrown with heath; any cheerless tract of country
overgrown with shrubs or coarse herbage.
Their stately growth, though bare, Stands on the blasted heath.