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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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