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Hot
·- imp. & ·p.p. of Hote.
II. Hot ·- of <<Hote>>.
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Short
·noun A summary account.
II. Short ·noun Short, inferior hemp.
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short
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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-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.
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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 coppers
Dry fauces; morning thirst, but generally applied to those who were drinking hard over-night.
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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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Cold-short
·adj Brittle when cold; as, cold-short iron.
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Red-short
·adj Hot-short; brittle when red-hot;
— said of certain kinds of iron.
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Short circuit
·- A circuit formed or closed by a conductor of relatively low resistance because shorter or of rela...
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Short-breathed
·adj Having short life.
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Short-circuit
·vt To join, as the electrodes of a battery or dynamo or any two points of a circuit, by a conductor...
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Short-circuited
·Impf & ·p.p. of Short-circuit.
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Short-circuiting
·p.pr. & ·vb.n. of Short-circuit.
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Short-dated
·adj Having little time to run from the date.
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Short-handed
·adj Short of, or lacking the regular number of, servants or helpers.
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Short-jointed
·adj Having short intervals between the joints;
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Short-lived
·adj Not living or lasting long; being of short continuance; as, a short-lived race of beings; short...
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Short-spoken
·adj Speaking in a quick or short manner; hence, gruff; curt.
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Short-waisted
·adj Having a short waist.
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Short-winded
·adj Affected with shortness of breath; having a quick, difficult respiration, as dyspnoic and asthm...
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Short-wited
·adj Having little wit; not wise; having scanty intellect or judgment.
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Short Street
West out of Finsbury Pavement, at No. 65, to Little Moorfields (P.O. Directory). In Coleman Street W...
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to cut short
To hinder from proceeding by sudden interruption,--Johnson.
The judge cut off the counsel very shor...
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short-comings
Defective performance; deficiency as to duty.--Worcester.
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short gown
A short gown with hardly any skirt, worn by women when doing household work, as washing, &c.
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hove-short
The ship with her cable hove taut towards her anchor, when the sails are usually loosed and braced f...
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short stay
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short apeek
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short allowance
When the provisions will not last the period expected, they may be reduced in part, as two-thirds, h...
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short boards
Frequent tacking, where there is not room for long boards, or from some other cause, as weather or t...
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short-handed
A deficient complement of men, or short-handed by many being on the sick-list.
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short-sea
A confused cross sea where the waves assume a jerking rippling action, and set home to the bows or s...
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short-service
Chafing geer put on a hemp cable for a short range.
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short-sheets
Belong to shifting sails, such as studding-sails, &c.
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short-tacks
See short boards.
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short-time
or sand glass.
One of 14 seconds, used in heaving the log when the ship is going fast.
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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).
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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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short-heeled wench
A girl apt to fall on her back.
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long and short
The end; the result; the upshot.
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heave short, to
To heave in on the cable until the vessel is nearly over her anchor, or sufficiently near it for sai...
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short-linked chain
A cable without studs, and therefore with shorter links than those of stud-chains; such are slings a...
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long and short boards
See tack and half-tack.
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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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