Warm /(?)/

1. Having heat in a moderate degree; not cold as, warm milk.

   Warm and still is the summer night.

2. Having a sensation of heat, esp. of gentle heat; glowing.
3. Subject to heat; having prevalence of heat, or little or no cold weather; as, the warm climate of Egypt.
4. Fig.: Not cool, indifferent, lukewarm, or the like, in spirit or temper; zealous; ardent; fervent; excited; sprightly; irritable; excitable.

   Mirth, and youth, and warm desire!

   Each warm wish springs mutual from the heart.

   They say he's warm man and does not care to be mad mouths at.

   I had been none of the warmest of partisans.

5. Violent; vehement; furious; excited; passionate; as, a warm contest; a warm debate.

   Welcome, daylight; we shall have warm work on't.

6. Being well off as to property, or in good circumstances; forehanded; rich. [Colloq.]

   Warm householders, every one of them.

   You shall have a draft upon him, payable at sight: and let me tell you he as warm a man as any within five miles round him.

7. In children's games, being near the object sought for; hence, being close to the discovery of some person, thing, or fact concealed. [Colloq.]

   Here, indeed, young Mr. Dowse was getting “warm,” children say at blindman's buff.

8. Having yellow or red for a basis, or in their composition; -- said of colors, and opposed to cold which is of blue and its compounds. (Paint.)

imp. & p. p. Warmed; p. pr. & vb. n. Warming

1. 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.

2. 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.

1. 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.

2. To become ardent or animated; as, the speake warms as he proceeds.

1. The act of warming, or the state of being warmed; a warming; a heating. [Colloq.]