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/wˈɔrmɪŋ/ Listen

adjective

Warming adj. A. & n. from Warm, v.

Warming pan, a long-handled covered pan into which live coals are put, used for warming beds.

verb

Warm v. t. (past & past part. warmed; pres. part. warming)

To communicate a moderate degree of heat to; to render warm; to supply or furnish heat to; as, a stove warms an apartment. "Then shall it (an ash tree) be for a man to burn; for he will take thereof and warm himself." "Enough to warm, but not enough to burn."

To make engaged or earnest; to interest; to engage; to excite ardor or zeal; to enliven. "I formerly warmed my head with reading controversial writings." "Bright hopes, that erst bosom warmed."

Warm v. i.

To become warm, or moderately heated; as, the earth soon warms in a clear day summer. "There shall not be a coal to warm at."

To become ardent or animated.

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Etymology of 'Warming'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Warming" Quotes from Famous Books

... primitive dark faces under the broad-brimmed hats, their mysterious, even dramatic way of grouping themselves around the lighted house. The peaty liquid seemed a brew out of the same atmosphere. I knew it was poteen. And in a moment I felt it coursing through my body, warming my blood. The young woman stood by the fire, half in shadow, half in the yellow flame of the turf fire, her attitude quiet but tense, very alert for any ...

— Waysiders • Seumas O'Kelly

... preaching a sermon? Did not Sir Barnes Newcome lecture on the Family? Do we not all hold forth on the condition of the poor, the morality of the mining-market; the inferior ethics of the coloured races, and a hundred other lofty topics, warming our coat-tails at the glow of our own virtue? 'T is the fault of language which enables arrant scoundrels to use fine words that they have never felt. Humility, self-sacrifice, noble-mindedness, are phrases easily picked up by people ...

— Without Prejudice • Israel Zangwill

... After warming himself for a few minutes before the stove, the doctor entered the small bedroom closely followed by Jasper. A shaded lamp with the wick turned down stood on a little table by the side of the bed. Though the light was dim, ...

— Under Sealed Orders • H. A. Cody

... theatrical effect. Each dance seems most tastefully progressive; the movement being at first slow, and introduced by two persons displaying graceful motions both of arms and legs, others one by one join in, each imperceptibly warming into the truly savage attitude of the corrobory jump; the legs then stride to the utmost, the head is turned over one shoulder, the eyes glare and are fixed with savage energy all in one direction, the arms also are ...

— Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia, Vol 2 (of 2) • Thomas Mitchell

... but all the poems of the seven seemed to be written upon her. For though the bias of her nature was not to thought, but to sympathy, yet was she so perfect in her own nature as to meet intellectual persons by the fulness of her heart, warming them by her sentiments; believing, as she did, that by dealing nobly with all, ...

— Essays, Second Series • Ralph Waldo Emerson

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