V. be cold &c. adj[intrans.].; shiver, starve, quake, shake, tremble,
shudder, didder[obs3], quiver; freeze, freeze to death, perish with cold.
[transitive] chill, freeze &c. (render cold) 385; horripilate[obs3],
make the skin crawl, give one goose flesh.
Adj. cold, cool; chill, chilly; icy; gelid, frigid, algid[obs3];
fresh, keen, bleak, raw, inclement, bitter, biting, niveous[obs3], cutting, nipping, piercing, pinching; clay-cold; starved &c. (made cold) 385; chilled to the bone, shivering &c. v.; aguish, transi de froid[Fr]; frostbitten, frost-bound, frost-nipped.
cold as a stone, cold as marble, cold as lead, cold as iron, cold as a
frog, cold as charity, cold as Christmas; cool as a cucumber, cool as custard.
icy, glacial, frosty, freezing, pruinose[obs3], wintry, brumal[obs3],
hibernal[obs3], boreal, arctic, Siberian, hyemal[obs3]; hyperborean, hyperboreal[obs3]; icebound; frozen out.
unwarmed[obs3], unthawed[obs3]; lukewarm, tepid; isocheimal[obs3],
isocheimenal[obs3], isocheimic[obs3].
frozen, numb, frost-bitten.
Adv. coldly, bitterly &c. adj.; pierre fendre[Fr];
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#384. Calefaction.
— N. increase of temperature; heating &c.
v.;
calefaction[obs3], tepefaction[obs3], torrefaction[obs3];
melting, fusion; liquefaction &c. 335; burning &c.
v.; ambustion[obs3], combustion; incension|, accension[obs3];
concremation[obs3], cremation; scorification[obs3];
cautery, cauterization; ustulation[obs3], calcination;
cracking, refining; incineration, cineration[obs3];
carbonization; cupellation[Chem].
ignition, inflammation,
adustion[obs3], flagration| [obs3];
deflagration, conflagration; empyrosis[obs3], incendiarism;
arson; auto dafe[Fr].
boiling &c. v.; coction[obs3],
ebullition, estuation[obs3],
elixation|, decoction; ebullioscope[obs3]; geyser;
distillation (vaporization) 336.
furnace &c. 386; blanket,
flannel, fur; wadding &c. (lining) 224;
clothing &c. 225.
still; refinery; fractionating
column, fractionating tower, cracking
tower.
match &c. (fuel) 388;
incendiary; petroleuse[Fr];
[biological effects
resembling the effects of heat][substances causing
a burning sensation and damage on skin or tissue]
cauterizer[obs3]; caustic, lunar caustic, alkali,
apozem[obs3], moxa[obs3]; acid, aqua fortis[Lat],
aqua regia; catheretic[obs3], nitric acid, nitrochloro-hydric
acid[ISA:CHEMSUB], nitromuriatic acid[ISA:CHEMSUBPREFIX];
radioactivity, gamma rays, alpha particles, beta rays,
X-rays, radiation, cosmic radiation, background radiation,
radioactive isotopes, tritium, uranium, plutonium,
radon, radium.
sunstroke, coup de soleil[Fr];
insolation.
[artifacts requiring
heat in their manufacture] pottery, ceramics,
crockery, porcelain, china; earthenware, stoneware;


