| Heating 1. (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Heat. 2. (a.) That heats or imparts heat; promoting warmth or heat; exciting action; stimulating; as, heating medicines or applications. Thesaurus Entries animal heat, blood heat, body heat, burning, calefacient, calefactive, calefactory, calidity, caloric, cauterant, chafing, coal heat, convected heat, electric heat, fever, fever heat, gas heat, heat, heatedness, hot-air heat, hotness, hypothermia, incalescence, induction heat, molecular heat, oil heat, radiant heat, solar heat, steam heat, superheat, superheatedness, thermal radiation, ultraviolet heat, warming, warmness, warmth |