To heat, make hot; esp. to raise (the body or blood) to a feverish or morbid heat; to excite inflammation in.

To engender (bodily heat); to heat, inflame (the body or its organs).

To produce the sensation of heat in, cause to feel hot or warm; to bring into a condition of bodily heat, to inflame. Also absol.

To scorch; to make very hot, to heat.

transitive. To make hot. (In quot. 1841 only humorous.)