4. Indication of high temperature; appearance, condition, or color of a body, as indicating its temperature; redness; high
color; flush; degree of temperature to which something is heated, as indicated by appearance, condition,
or otherwise.
It has raised . . . heats in their faces.
Addison.
The heats smiths take of their iron are a blood-red heat, a white-flame heat, and a sparkling or welding
heat.
Moxon. 5. A single complete operation of heating, as at a forge or in a furnace; as, to make a horseshoe in a
certain number of heats.
6. A violent action unintermitted; a single effort; a single course in a race that consists of two or more
courses; as, he won two heats out of three.
Many causes . . . for refreshment betwixt the heats.
Dryden.
[He] struck off at one heat the matchless tale of "Tam o' Shanter."
J. C. Shairp. 7. Utmost violence; rage; vehemence; as, the heat of battle or party. "The heat of their division." Shak.
8. Agitation of mind; inflammation or excitement; exasperation. "The heat and hurry of his rage." South.
9. Animation, as in discourse; ardor; fervency.
With all the strength and heat of eloquence.
Addison. 10. Sexual excitement in animals.
11. Fermentation.
Animal heat, Blood heat, Capacity for heat, etc. See under Animal, Blood, etc. Atomic heat
(Chem.), the product obtained by multiplying the atomic weight of any element by its specific heat. The
atomic heat of all solid elements is nearly a constant, the mean value being 6.4. Dynamical theory
of heat, that theory of heat which assumes it to be, not a peculiar kind of matter, but a peculiar motion
of the ultimate particles of matter. Heat engine, any apparatus by which a heated substance, as a
heated fluid, is made to perform work by giving motion to mechanism, as a hot-air engine, or a steam
engine. Heat producers. (Physiol.) See under Food. Heat rays, a term formerly applied
to the rays near the red end of the spectrum, whether within or beyond the visible spectrum. Heat
weight (Mech.), the product of any quantity of heat by the mechanical equivalent of heat divided by
the absolute temperature; called also thermodynamic function, and entropy. Mechanical equivalent
of heat. See under Equivalent. Specific heat of a substance (at any temperature), the number
of units of heat required to raise the temperature of a unit mass of the substance at that temperature
one degree. Unit of heat, the quantity of heat required to raise, by one degree, the temperature of
a unit mass of water, initially at a certain standard temperature. The temperature usually employed is
that of 0° Centigrade, or 32° Fahrenheit.
Heat
(Heat) v. t. [imp. & p. p. Heated; p. pr. & vb. n. Heating.] [OE. heten, AS. h&aemacrtan, fr.
hat hot. See Hot.]
1. To make hot; to communicate heat to, or cause to grow warm; as, to heat an oven or furnace, an iron,
or the like.
Heat me these irons hot.
Shak.