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6 definitions found
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Hot \Hot\,
imp. & p. p. of {Hote}. [Obs.] --Spenser.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Hot \Hot\, a. [Compar. {Hotter}; superl. {Hottest}.] [OE. hot,
hat, AS. h[=a]t; akin to OS. h[=e]t, D. heet, OHG. heiz, G.
heiss, Icel. heitr, Sw. het, Dan. heed, hed; cf. Goth.
heit[=o] fever, hais torch. Cf. {Heat}.]
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." --Shak.
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2. Characterized by heat, ardor, or animation; easily
excited; firely; vehement; passionate; violent; eager.
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Achilles is impatient, hot, and revengeful.
--Dryden.
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There was mouthing in hot haste. --Byron.
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3. Lustful; lewd; lecherous. --Shak.
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4. Acrid; biting; pungent; as, hot as mustard.
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{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.]
Syn: Burning; fiery; fervid; glowing; eager; animated; brisk;
vehement; precipitate; violent; furious; ardent;
fervent; impetuous; irascible; passionate; hasty;
excitable.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Hote \Hote\, v. t. & i. [pres. & imp. {Hatte}, {Hot}, etc.; p.
p. {Hote}, {Hoten}, {Hot}, etc. See {Hight}, {Hete}.]
1. To command; to enjoin. [Obs.] --Piers Plowman.
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2. To promise. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
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3. To be called; to be named. [Obs.]
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There as I was wont to hote Arcite,
Now hight I Philostrate, not worth a mite.
--Chaucer.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Hight \Hight\, v. t. & i. [imp. {Hight}, {Hot}, p. p. {Hight},
{Hote} (?), {Hoten} (?). See {Hote}.] [OE. heiten, highten,
haten, hoten; also hight, hatte, hette, is called, was
called, AS. h[=a]tan to call, name, be called, to command,
promise; also h[=a]tte is called, was called; akin to G.
heissen to call, be called, bid, Goth. haitan to call, in the
passive, to be called.]
1. To be called or named. [Archaic & Poetic.]
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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}.
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The great poet of Italy,
That highte Dante. --Chaucer.
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Bright was her hue, and Geraldine she hight.
--Surrey.
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Entered then into the church the Reverend
Teacher.
Father he hight, and he was, in the parish.
--Longfellow.
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Childe Harold was he hight. --Byron.
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2. To command; to direct; to impel. [Obs.]
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But the sad steel seized not where it was hight
Upon the child, but somewhat short did fall.
--Spenser.
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3. To commit; to intrust. [Obs.]
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Yet charge of them was to a porter hight. --Spenser.
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4. To promise. [Obs.]
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He had hold his day, as he had hight. --Chaucer.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
hot
adj 1: used of physical heat; having a high or higher than
desirable temperature or giving off heat or feeling or
causing a sensation of heat or burning; "hot stove";
"hot water"; "a hot August day"; "a hot stuffy room";
"she's hot and tired"; "a hot forehead" [ant: {cold}]
2: characterized by violent and forceful activity or movement;
very intense; "the fighting became hot and heavy"; "a hot
engagement"; "a raging battle"; "the river became a raging
torrent" [syn: {raging}]
3: extended meanings; especially of psychological heat; marked
by intensity or vehemence especially of passion or
enthusiasm; "a hot temper"; "a hot topic"; "a hot new
book"; "a hot love affair"; "a hot argument" [ant: {cold}]
4: (color) bold and intense; "hot pink"
5: sexually excited or exciting; "was hot for her"; "hot pants"
6: recently stolen or smuggled; "hot merchandise"; "a hot car"
7: very fast; "a blistering pace"; "got off to a hot start";
"in hot pursuit"; "a red-hot line drive" [syn: {blistering},
{red-hot}]
8: wanted by the police; "a hot suspect"
9: performed or performing with unusually great skill and
daring and energy; "a hot drummer"; "he's hot tonight"
10: having a piquant burning taste of spices or peppers;
"gingery Chinese food"; "hot peppers"; "hot curry"; "corn
chips with peppery salsa"; "spicy tomato sauce" [syn: {gingery},
{peppery}, {spicy}]
11: very popular or successful; "one of the hot young talents";
"cabbage patch dolls were hot last season"
12: very unpleasant or even dangerous; "make it hot for him";
"in the hot seat"; "in hot water"
13: newest or most recent; "news hot off the press"; "red-hot
information" [syn: {red-hot}]
14: having or bringing unusually good luck; "hot at craps"; "the
dice are hot tonight"
15: very good; often used in the negative; "he's hot at math but
not so hot at history"
16: newly made; "a hot scent"
17: capable of quick response and great speed; "a hot sports
car"
18: having or showing great eagerness or enthusiasm; "hot for
travel"
19: of a seeker; near to the object sought; "you're getting
warm"; "hot on the trail" [syn: {warm}]
20: having or dealing with dangerously high levels of
radioactivity; "hot fuel rods"; "a hot laboratory"
21: charged or energized with electricity; "a hot wire"; "a live
wire" [syn: {live}]
22: marked by excited activity; "a hot week on the stock market"
[also: {hottest}, {hotter}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
378 Moby Thesaurus words for "hot":
OK, Titian, Titian-red, abandoned, ablaze, ace-high, activated,
afire, animal, ape about, aphrodisiomaniacal, approaching,
approximate, approximating, ardent, arm-in-arm, autoluminescent,
bad, baking, bang-up, banned, bawdy, blistering, boiling,
boiling over, bonzer, boss, breathless, bricky, brisk, broiling,
bugs on, bully, burning, burning hot, burning with excitement,
but good, canicular, cardinal, carmine, carnal, carnation,
carnelian, cerise, charged, cheek-by-jowl, cherry, cherry-colored,
cherry-red, clitoromaniacal, close, combustible, committed,
concupiscent, contaminated, cool, cordial, corking, cracked on,
crackerjack, crazy about, crimson, curried, damask, dandy,
dedicated, delicious, delirious, detectable, determinable, devoted,
devout, dirty, disappearing, discernible, disclosable,
discoverable, drunk, ducky, earnest, ebullient, ejaculatory,
electric-heated, electrified, enthusiastic, erotic,
eroticomaniacal, erotomaniacal, estral, estrous, estrual, excited,
explosive, exposable, exuberant, fab, faithful, fanatic, febrile,
ferruginous, fervent, fervid, fevered, feverish, feverous, fiery,
findable, fine and dandy, fire-red, flame-colored, flame-red,
flaming, fleshly, flushed, freaked-out, fugitive, gaga over,
gas-heated, gear, glorious, glowing, goatish, gone on, great,
grilling, groovy, gules, gynecomaniacal, hand-in-hand, hard-core,
hasty, hearty, heated, heavy, hectic, hepped up over, het, het up,
high-seasoned, high-tension, hipped on, horny, hot about,
hot as fire, hot as hell, hot as pepper, hot-air-heated,
hot-blooded, hot-tempered, hotheaded, hotted up, hunky-dory,
hyperpyretic, hyperthermic, hysteromaniacal, impassioned,
in a fever, in earnest, in flight, in heat, in must, in rut,
incarmined, infected, inflamed, infrared, intense, intent,
intent on, intimate, intoxicated, iron-red, irradiated, itching,
ithyphallic, jam-up, jazz, jazzed up, jazzy, just dandy, keen,
lake-colored, laky, lascivious, lateritious, lecherous, lewd,
libidinous, lickerish, like a furnace, like an oven, live, lively,
lobster-red, loyal, lubricious, lurid, lustful, mad about, madcap,
maroon, marvy, mean, mild, must, musty, near, near the mark,
nearing, nearish, neat, nifty, nigh, nighish, nippy, nobby,
nuts about, nuts on, nymphomaniacal, obscene, oil-heated, okay,
on fire, on the lam, orgasmic, orgastic, out of sight, overheated,
overwarm, parching, passionate, peachy, peachy-keen, peppery,
perfervid, pilfered, piping hot, pirated, plagiarized, poisoned,
port-wine, priapic, propinque, proximal, proximate, prurient, puce,
purloined, pyretic, quick, quick-tempered, racy, radiferous,
radioactivated, radioactive, radioluminescent, ragtime, ragtimey,
randy, rechauffe, recooked, red, red-dyed, red-hot, red-looking,
reddened, reddish, reddish-amber, reddish-brown, reheated,
resolute, ripping, roasting, rubicund, rubiginous, rubric,
rubricose, ruby, ruby-colored, ruby-red, ruddied, ruddy, rufescent,
rufous, rum, runaway, rust, rust-red, rusty, rutting, ruttish,
rutty, salacious, satyric, scalding, scarlet, scorching,
scrumptious, searing, seasoned, seething, sensual, serious,
sex-starved, sexual, sexually excited, sexy, short-tempered,
side-by-side, simmering, sincere, sizzling, sizzling hot, slap-up,
smashing, smoking hot, smoldering, snappy, solid, something else,
spiced, spicy, spiffing, spiffy, spirited, spottable, spunky,
stammel, starry-eyed over, steam-heated, steamed up about,
steaming, steamy, stolen, stunning, sudorific, sultry, summery,
super, superheated, sweating, sweaty, swell, sweltering, sweltry,
swingy, syncopated, tangy, tile-red, toasting, torrid,
totally committed, tough, tropic, tropical, turned-on,
unrestrained, unsatisfied, vehement, vermilion, vicinal, vigorous,
vinaceous, volcanic, warm, warmed, warmed up, warmed-over,
white-hot, wild about, wine-colored, wine-red, with a kick, wizard,
zealous, zestful, zesty, zippy
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