For a complete Scripture study system, try SwordSearcher Bible Software, which includes the unabridged version of this dictionary. Once you experience the swiftness and ease-of-use SwordSearcher gives you right on your own computer, combined with the most powerful search features available, you will never want to use the web to do online study again. Includes tens of thousands of topical, encyclopedic, and commentary entries all linked to verses, fully searchable by topic or verse reference.
Also try Daily Bible and Prayer to design your own Bible reading programs and track your prayer list.
WARM, a. Waurm. G. See Swarm.
1. Having heat in a moderate degree; not cold; as warm blood; warm milk. The flesh of living animals is warm, if their blood is warm. But some animals have not warm blood.
2. Subject o heat; having prevalence of heat, or little or no winter; as the warm climate of Egypt.
3. Zealous; ardent; as, to be warm in the cause of our country or of religion.
Each warm wish springs mutual from the heart.
4. Habitually ardent or passionate; keen; irritable; as a warm temper.
5. Easily excited or provoked; irritable; as warm passions.
6. Violent; furious; as a warm contest. We shall have warm work to-day.
7. Busy in action; heated in action; ardent. Be warm in fight.
8. Fanciful; enthusiastic; as a warm head.
9. Vigorous; sprightly.
Now warm in youth, now withering in thy bloom, lost in a convents solitary gloom.
WARM, v.t.
1. To communicate a moderate degree of heat to; as, a stove warms an apartment. The sun in summer warms the earth, and gives life to vegetation.
2. To make engaged or earnest; to interest; to engage; to excite ardor or zeal in; as, to warm the heart with love or zeal.
I formerly warmed my head with reading controversial writings.
WARM, v.i.
1. To become moderately heated. The earth soon warms in a clear day in summer.
2. To become ardent or animated. The speaker should warm as he proceeds in the argument, for as he becomes animated, he excites more interest in his audience.
WARMED, pp. Moderately heated; made ardent; excited.
WARMING, ppr. Making moderately hot; making ardent or zealous.
WARMNESS, WARMTH, n.
1. Gentle heat; as the warmth of the blood.
2. Zeal; ardor; fervor; as the warmth of love or of piety.
3. Earnestness; eagerness. The cause of the Greeks has been espoused with warmth by all parties in free countries.
4. Excitement; animation; as the warmth of passion. The preacher declaimed with great warmth against the vices of the age.
5. Fancifulness; enthusiasm; as the warmth of head.
6. In painting, the fiery effect given to a red color by a small addition of yellow.
"Seek ye out of the book of the Lord, and read" —Isaiah 34:16, KJV
Website ©2012 AV1611.COM's webmaster. Various texts copyrighted by their authors.
Please feel free to link to pages on this site, but do not copy articles without authors' permission.