Hypertext Webster Gateway: "heated"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Heat \Heat\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Heated}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Heating}.] [OE. heten, AS. h?tan, fr. h[=a]t hot. See
{Hot}.]
1. To make hot; to communicate heat to, or cause to grow
warm; as, to heat an oven or furnace, an iron, or the
like.

Heat me these irons hot. --Shak.

2. To excite or make hot by action or emotion; to make
feverish.

Pray, walk softly; do not heat your blood. --Shak.

3. To excite ardor in; to rouse to action; to excite to
excess; to inflame, as the passions.

A noble emulation heats your breast. --Dryden.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

heated
adj 1: made warm or hot; "a heated swimming pool"; "wiped his
heated-up face with a large bandana"; (`het' is a
dialectal variant of `heated' as in "he was all het up
and sweaty") [syn: {heated up}, {het}, {het up}]
2: marked by emotional heat; vehement; "a heated argument"


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