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▪ I. warming, vbl. n.|ˈwɔːmɪŋ|
[f. warm v. + -ing1.]
1. a. The action of making warm; the state of becoming warm.
c1440Promp. Parv. 517/1 Warmynge, calefactio. 1597Shakes. 2 Hen. IV, iv. iii. 111 The second propertie of your excellent Sherris, is, the warming of the Blood. c1680R. Fleming Fulfilling Script. ii. iv. (1726) 302 As it is sure our bodies are influenced with the warmings of the sun. 1835Dickens Sk. Boz, Parish vi, Such a nursing and warming of little legs and feet before the fire. 1883R. Broughton Belinda ii. vii, Whether he will have time for a good warming and breakfasting before setting off.
b. transf. and fig.
c1621in 10th Rep. Hist. MSS. Comm. App. i. 105 The estates hauing of late made great fiers in the Infanta her country of Brabant, euen to the warminge of her courte at Bruxells. 1681R. Fleming Fulfilling Script. iii. ii. (1726) 359 To unite further those amongst themselves with the more warmings of that ancient love that was wont to be amongst them. 1743J. Glas Lord's Supper v. v. Wks. 1761 IV. 143 Many warmings and seemingly good motions and wishes, that never carry us out..to do any good work.
†c. warming of the house = house-warming 2.
1653Greaves Seraglio 184 The warming of the house, as we call it in England.
d. With up: the action or condition of ‘warming up’ (see warm v. 3, 9, and 11). Freq. attrib.
1874J. G. McCoy Hist. Sk. Cattle Trade 244 This style,..of wintering cattle, is called ‘Roughing’, and the feeding of corn in the spring is termed ‘Warming up’. 1883Chicago Inter-Ocean 27 June 5 The players..began their practice play. This is called ‘warming up’. 1952Times 22 Feb. 6/4 Jet-engined aircraft have two further advantages—no preliminary ‘warming up’ is necessary, so they can take off in shorter time. 1960Practical Wireless XXXVI. 429/1 The warming up time for the unit is about 30 seconds.
2. A thrashing, trouncing. Also fig.
1681W. Robertson Phraseol. Gen. 664/1, I'le give your hide a warming. 1880S. Butler Let. 20 May in H. F. Jones Mem. (1919) I. 332 My new book..will..give old Darwin the best warming that I can manage to give him.
3. attrib., as warming-chamber, warming drawer, warming-house, warming oven, warming-stone (see quots.).
1791Bentham Panopt. i. 201 The *warming chamber, or set of warming-chambers..consists of earthen retorts, open at both ends, and inclosed in iron ones. 1876in Willis & Clark Cambridge (1886) III. 238 The warming chamber..is common to both portions of the building.
1972J. Burmeister Running Scared vii. 95 Your breakfast will be in the *warming drawer if I'm not there.
1897J. W. Clark Observ. Barnwell Priory p. lxiii, The *Warming-House (calefactorium).
1950in M. Cecil Heroines in Love (1974) 199 Jocelyn turned out the *warming oven. 1973J. Burrows Like an Evening Gone iii. 38 There was a square warming oven... ‘For keeping tins and dinner plates hot.’
1668Charleton Onomast. 243 Lapis Schistos..the *Warming stone. 1677Plot Oxfordsh. 253 If Mault-kills or Oasts made with ordinary stone prove so advantagious, what would one of them do, if the Joists and Laths at least were made of the Cornish warming-stone, that will hold heat well eight or ten hours. 1691Ray Creation i. (1692) 83 To these useful Stones I might add the Warming-stone, digged in Cornwal, which being once well heated at the fire retains its warmth a great while, and hath been found to give ease and relief in several Pains and Diseases, particularly that of the internal Hæmorrhoids.
▪ II. warming, ppl. a.|ˈwɔːmɪŋ|
[-ing2.]
That makes warm, or becomes warm; lit. and fig. Also with up.
c1450Mirk's Festial 160 Lyght fyre, schapon lyke tonges, brennyng and not smertyng, warmyng not harmyng. 1661Feltham Resolves liii. (ed. 8) 293 The gentle..rayes of the warming Sun. c1680R. Fleming Fulfilling Script. ii. v. (1726) 309 It is rare to find a warming heat with a large profession, such as can make it convincing to others. 1765J. Brown Chr. Jrnl., Winter Day 287 With what amazing power do the warming beams of the Sun of righteousness dart into my soul! 1819Scott Ivanhoe xxxvii, A warming and spicy-smelling balsam. 1851Meredith Poems, Pict. Rhine iii, And now the sun In saffron clothes the warming atmosphere. 1886Hardy Woodlanders ix, Do you think a Christmas party..is a warming-up thing, and likely to be useful in hastening on the matter? |