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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
beating, burning, calefacient, calefaction, calefactive, calefactory, cauterant, chafing, cooking, debacle, defeasance, dielectric heating, drubbing, electric heating, electronic heating, furnace heating, gas heating, heat exchange, heating, hot-air heating, increase of temperature, induction heating, insolation, licking, oil heating, overthrow, panel heating, radiant heating, recalescence, rout, shellacking, steam heating, superheating, tepefaction, thrashing, torrefaction
Dictionary Results for warming:
1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
warming
    adj 1: imparting heat; "a warming fire"
    2: producing the sensation of heat when applied to the body; "a
       mustard plaster is calefacient" [syn: calefacient,
       warming]
    n 1: the process of becoming warmer; a rising temperature [syn:
         heating, warming]
    2: warm weather following a freeze; snow and ice melt; "they
       welcomed the spring thaw" [syn: thaw, thawing, warming]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Warm \Warm\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Warmed; p. pr. & vb. n.
   Warming.] [AS. wearmian. See Warm, a.]
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   1. To communicate a moderate degree of heat to; to render
      warm; to supply or furnish heat to; as, a stove warms an
      apartment.
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            Then shall it [an ash tree] be for a man to burn;
            for he will take thereof and warm himself. --Isa.
                                                  xliv 15
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            Enough to warm, but not enough to burn.
                                                  --Longfellow.
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   2. To make engaged or earnest; to interest; to engage; to
      excite ardor or zeal; to enliven.
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            I formerly warmed my head with reading controversial
            writings.                             --Pope.
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            Bright hopes, that erst bosom warmed. --Keble.
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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Warming \Warm"ing\,
   a. & n. from Warm, v.
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   Warming pan, a long-handled covered pan into which live
      coals are put, -- used for warming beds. --Shak.
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