Emily Dickinson Lexicon

HEAT, v.t. [Sax. hatan, to call, to order, command or promise; gehatan, to call, to promise, to grow warm; hætan, to heat, to command, to call; gehætan, to promise; hæse, order, command; behæs, a vow; behætan, to vow; onhætan, to heat, to inflame; hatian, to heat, to be hot, to boil, to hate; hæt, heat, heat; hat, hot; hate, hatred, hate; L. odi, osus, for hodi, hosus; Goth. hatyan, to hate; haitan, gahaitan, to call, to command, to vow or promise; G. heiss, hot; heissen, to call; heitzen, to heat; hitze, heat, ardor, vehemence; geheiss, command; verheissen, to promise; hass, hate; hassen, to hate; D. heet, hot, eager, hasty; hitte, heat; heeten, to heat, to name or call, to be called, to command; haat, hate; haaten, to hate; verhitten, to inflame; Sw. het, hot; hetta, heat, passion; hetta, to be hot, to glow; heta, to be called or named; hat, hate, hatred; hata, to hate; Dan. heed, hot; hede, heat, ardor; heder, to heat, to be called or named; had, hate; hader, to hate. With these words coincides the L. æstus, for hæstus, heat, tide, Gr. αιθω, to burn, and the English haste and hoist are probably of the same family. The primary and literal sense of all these words, is to stir, to rouse, to raise, to agitate, from the action of driving, urging, stimulating, whence Sw. hetsa, Dan. hedser, to excite, to set on dogs. See Class Gd, No. 39, and others. It may be further added, that in W. câs is hatred, a castle, from the sense of separating; casau, to hate; and if this is of the same family, it unites castle with the foregoing words. In these words we see the sense of repulsion.]

1. To make hot; to communicate heat to, or cause to be hot; as, to heat an oven or a furnace; to heat iron.
2. To make feverish; as, to heat the blood.
3. To warm with passion or desire; to excite; to rouse into action. A noble emulation heats your breast. Dryden.
4. To agitate the blood and spirits with action; to excite animal action. Dryden.