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• coppers

  The ship's boilers for cooking; the name is generally used, even where the apparatus may be made of ...

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• Hot

  ·- imp. & ·p.p. of Hote. II. Hot ·- of <<Hote>>. III. Hot ·- of <<Hote>>. IV. Hot ·- of <<Hight>>...

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• Full-hot

  ·adj Very fiery. ...

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• Hot blast

  ·- ·see under <<Blast>>. ...

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• Hot bulb

  ·add. ·- ·Alt. of Hot pot. ...

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• Hot pot

  ·add. ·- ·see Semi-diesel, below. ...

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• Hot-blooded

  ·adj Having hot blood; excitable; high-spirited; irritable; ardent; passionate. ...

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• Hot-brained

  ·adj Ardent in temper; violent; rash; impetuous; as, hot-brained youth. ...

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• Hot-head

  ·noun A violent, passionate person; a hasty or impetuous person; as, the rant of a hot-head. ...

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• Hot-headed

  ·adj Fiery; violent; rash; hasty; impetuous; vehement. ...

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• Hot-livered

  ·adj Of an excitable or irritable temperament; irascible. ...

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• Hot-mouthed

  ·adj <<Headstrong>>. ...

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• Hot-short

  ·adj More or less brittle when heated; as, hot-short iron. II. Hot-short ·add. ·adj Brittle when he...

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• Hot-spirited

  ·adj Having a fiery spirit; hot-headed. ...

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• Red-hot

  ·adj Red with heat; heated to redness; as, red-hot iron; red-hot balls. Hence, figuratively, excited...

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• White-hot

  ·adj White with heat; heated to whiteness, or incandescence. ...

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• hot pot

  Ale and brandy made hot. ...

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• hot stomach

  He has so hot a stomach, that he burns all the clothes off his back; said of one who pawns his cloth...

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• hot wind

  n. an Australian meteorologicalphenomenon. See quotations, especially 1879, A. R. Wallace.The phras...

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• hot-windy

  adj. See houhere. 1871. Dingo, `Australian Rhymes,' p. 18: «A spell that still makes me forget ...

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• hot-press

  When the press-gangs were instructed, on imminent emergency, to impress seamen, regardless of the pr...

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• hot-shot

  Balls made red-hot in a furnace. Amongst the savages in Bergou, the women are in the rear of the com...

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• hot-well

  In a steamer, a reservoir from whence to feed the boiler with the warm water received out of the con...

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• Hot Water Court

  North out of Fann Street at No. 49. A portion only within the City boundary (P.O. Directory). Firs...

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• red-hot balls

  Shot made red-hot in a furnace, and in that state discharged at the enemy. The loading is managed wi...

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• devil to pay and no pitch hot

  The seam which margins the water-ways was called the "devil," why only caulkers can tell, who perhap...

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