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V. be cold &c adj.; shiver, starve, quake, shake, tremble, shudder, didder † , quiver; freeze,<br />

freeze to death, perish with cold.<br />

freeze &c (render cold) 385; horripilate † , make the skin crawl, give one goose flesh.<br />

Adj. cold, cool; chill, chilly; icy; gelid, frigid, algid † ; fresh, keen, bleak, raw, inclement,<br />

bitter, biting, niveous † , cutting, nipping, piercing, pinching; clay-cold; starved &c (made<br />

cold) 385; chilled to the bone, shivering &c v.; aguish, transi de froid [Fr.]; frostbitten,<br />

frost-bound, frost-nipped.<br />

cold as a stone, cold as marble, cold as lead, cold as iron, cold as a frog, cold as<br />

charity, cold as Christmas; cool as a cucumber, cool as custard.<br />

icy, glacial, frosty, freezing, pruinose † , wintry, brumal † , hibernal † , boreal, arctic,<br />

Siberian, hyemal † ; hyperborean, hyperboreal † ; icebound; frozen out.<br />

unwarmed † , unthawed † ; lukewarm, tepid; isocheimal † , isocheimenal † , isocheimic † .<br />

frozen, numb, frost-bitten.<br />

Adv. coldly, bitterly &c adj.; pierre fendre [Fr.];<br />

384. Calefaction -- N. increase of temperature; heating &c v.; calefaction † , tepefaction † ,<br />

torrefaction † ; melting, fusion; liquefaction &c 335; burning &c v.; ambustion † ,<br />

combustion; incension † , accension † ; concremation † , cremation; scorification † ; cautery,<br />

cauterization; ustulation † , calcination; cracking, refining; incineration, cineration † ;<br />

carbonization; cupellation [Chem].<br />

ignition, inflammation, adustion † , flagration † ; deflagration, conflagration; empyrosis † ,<br />

incendiarism; arson; auto dafe [Fr.].<br />

boiling &c v.; coction † , ebullition, estuation † , elixation † , decoction; ebullioscope † ;<br />

geyser; distillation (vaporization) 336.<br />

furnace &c 386; blanket, flannel, fur; wadding &c (lining) 224; clothing &c 225.<br />

still; refinery; fractionating column, fractionating tower, cracking tower.<br />

match &c (fuel) 388; incendiary; petroleuse [Fr.]; [biological effects resembling the<br />

effects of heat] [substances causing a burning sensation and damage on skin or tissue]<br />

cauterizer † ; caustic, lunar caustic, alkali, apozem † , moxa † ; acid, aqua fortis [Lat.], aqua<br />

regia; catheretic † , nitric acid, nitrochloro-hydric acid, nitromuriatic acid; radioactivity,<br />

gamma rays, alpha particles, beta rays, X-rays, radiation, cosmic radiation, background<br />

radiation, radioactive isotopes, tritium, uranium, plutonium, radon, radium.<br />

sunstroke, coup de soleil [Fr.]; insolation.<br />

[artifacts requiring heat in their manufacture] pottery, ceramics, crockery, porcelain,<br />

china; earthenware, stoneware; pot, mug, terra cotta [Sp.], brick, clinker.<br />

[products of combustion] cinder, ash, scoriae, embers, soot; slag.<br />

[products of heating organic materials] coke, carbon, charcoal; wood alcohol,<br />

turpentine, tea tree oil; gasoline, kerosene, naptha, fuel oil (fuel) 388; wax, paraffin;<br />

residue, tar.<br />

inflammability, combustibility.<br />

[Transmission of heat] diathermancy † , transcalency † , conduction; convection;<br />

radiation, radiant heat; heat conductivity, conductivity.<br />

[effects of heat 2] thermal expansion; coefficient of expansion.<br />

V. heat, warm, chafe, stive † , foment; make hot &c 382; sun oneself, sunbathe.<br />

go up in flames, burn to the ground (flame) 382.

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