hot \hot\,
   imp.  p. p. of hote. obs. --spenser.
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hote 

hot \hot\, a. compar. hotter; superl. hottest. oe. hot,
   hat, as. h=at; akin to os. h=et, d. heet, ohg. heiz, g.
   heiss, icel. heitr, sw. het, dan. heed, hed; cf. goth.
   heit=o fever, hais torch. cf. heat.
   1. having much sensible heat; exciting the feeling of warmth
      in a great degree; very warm; -- opposed to cold, and
      exceeding warm in degree; as, a hot stove; hot water or
      air. "a hotvenison pasty." --shak.
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   2. characterized by heat, ardor, or animation; easily
      excited; firely; vehement; passionate; violent; eager.
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            achilles is impatient, hot, and revengeful.
                                                  --dryden.
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            there was mouthing in hot haste.      --byron.
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   3. lustful; lewd; lecherous. --shak.
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   4. acrid; biting; pungent; as, hot as mustard.
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   hot bed iron manuf., an iron platform in a rolling mill,
      on which hot bars, rails, etc., are laid to cool.

   hot wall gardening, a wall provided with flues for the
      conducting of heat, to hasten the growth of fruit trees or
      the ripening of fruit.

   hot well condensing engines, a receptacle for the hot
      water drawn from the condenser by the air pump. this water
      is returned to the boiler, being drawn from the hot well
      by the feed pump.

   in hot water fig., in trouble; in difficulties. colloq.

   syn: burning; fiery; fervid; glowing; eager; animated; brisk;
        vehement; precipitate; violent; furious; ardent;
        fervent; impetuous; irascible; passionate; hasty;
        excitable.
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hotter hottest heat hot bed hot wall hot well 
in hot water 

hote \hote\, v. t.  i. pres.  imp. hatte, hot, etc.; p.
   p. hote, hoten, hot, etc. see hight, hete.
   1. to command; to enjoin. obs. --piers plowman.
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   2. to promise. obs. --chaucer.
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   3. to be called; to be named. obs.
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            there as i was wont to hote arcite,
            now hight i philostrate, not worth a mite.
                                                  --chaucer.
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hatte hot hote hoten hight hete 

hight \hight\, v. t.  i. imp. hight, hot, p. p. hight,
   hote ?, hoten ?. see hote. oe. heiten, highten,
   haten, hoten; also hight, hatte, hette, is called, was
   called, as. h=atan to call, name, be called, to command,
   promise; also h=atte is called, was called; akin to g.
   heissen to call, be called, bid, goth. haitan to call, in the
   passive, to be called.
   1. to be called or named. archaic  poetic.
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   note: in the form hight, it is used in a passive sense as a
         present, meaning is called or named, also as a
         preterite, was called or named. this form has also been
         used as a past participle. see hote.
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               the great poet of italy,
               that highte dante.                 --chaucer.
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               bright was her hue, and geraldine she hight.
                                                  --surrey.
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               entered then into the church the reverend
               teacher.
               father he hight, and he was, in the parish.
                                                  --longfellow.
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               childe harold was he hight.        --byron.
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   2. to command; to direct; to impel. obs.
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            but the sad steel seized not where it was hight
            upon the child, but somewhat short did fall.
                                                  --spenser.
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   3. to commit; to intrust. obs.
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            yet charge of them was to a porter hight. --spenser.
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   4. to promise. obs.
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            he had hold his day, as he had hight. --chaucer.
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hight hot hote hoten 

hot
     adj 1: used of physical heat; having a high or higher than
            desirable temperature or giving off heat or feeling or
            causing a sensation of heat or burning; "hot stove";
            "hot water"; "a hot august day"; "a hot stuffy room";
            "she's hot and tired"; "a hot forehead" ant: cold
     2: characterized by violent and forceful activity or movement;
        very intense; "the fighting became hot and heavy"; "a hot
        engagement"; "a raging battle"; "the river became a raging
        torrent" syn: raging
     3: extended meanings; especially of psychological heat; marked
        by intensity or vehemence especially of passion or
        enthusiasm; "a hot temper"; "a hot topic"; "a hot new
        book"; "a hot love affair"; "a hot argument" ant: cold
     4: color bold and intense; "hot pink"
     5: sexually excited or exciting; "was hot for her"; "hot pants"
     6: recently stolen or smuggled; "hot merchandise"; "a hot car"
     7: very fast; "a blistering pace"; "got off to a hot start";
        "in hot pursuit"; "a red-hot line drive" syn: blistering,
         red-hot
     8: wanted by the police; "a hot suspect"
     9: performed or performing with unusually great skill and
        daring and energy; "a hot drummer"; "he's hot tonight"
     10: having a piquant burning taste of spices or peppers;
         "gingery chinese food"; "hot peppers"; "hot curry"; "corn
         chips with peppery salsa"; "spicy tomato sauce" syn: gingery,
          peppery, spicy
     11: very popular or successful; "one of the hot young talents";
         "cabbage patch dolls were hot last season"
     12: very unpleasant or even dangerous; "make it hot for him";
         "in the hot seat"; "in hot water"
     13: newest or most recent; "news hot off the press"; "red-hot
         information" syn: red-hot
     14: having or bringing unusually good luck; "hot at craps"; "the
         dice are hot tonight"
     15: very good; often used in the negative; "he's hot at math but
         not so hot at history"
     16: newly made; "a hot scent"
     17: capable of quick response and great speed; "a hot sports
         car"
     18: having or showing great eagerness or enthusiasm; "hot for
         travel"
     19: of a seeker; near to the object sought; "you're getting
         warm"; "hot on the trail" syn: warm
     20: having or dealing with dangerously high levels of
         radioactivity; "hot fuel rods"; "a hot laboratory"
     21: charged or energized with electricity; "a hot wire"; "a live
         wire" syn: live
     22: marked by excited activity; "a hot week on the stock market"
     also: hottest, hotter
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cold raging blistering red-hot gingery peppery 
spicy warm live hottest hotter 

378 moby thesaurus words for "hot":
   ok, titian, titian-red, abandoned, ablaze, ace-high, activated,
   afire, animal, ape about, aphrodisiomaniacal, approaching,
   approximate, approximating, ardent, arm-in-arm, autoluminescent,
   bad, baking, bang-up, banned, bawdy, blistering, boiling,
   boiling over, bonzer, boss, breathless, bricky, brisk, broiling,
   bugs on, bully, burning, burning hot, burning with excitement,
   but good, canicular, cardinal, carmine, carnal, carnation,
   carnelian, cerise, charged, cheek-by-jowl, cherry, cherry-colored,
   cherry-red, clitoromaniacal, close, combustible, committed,
   concupiscent, contaminated, cool, cordial, corking, cracked on,
   crackerjack, crazy about, crimson, curried, damask, dandy,
   dedicated, delicious, delirious, detectable, determinable, devoted,
   devout, dirty, disappearing, discernible, disclosable,
   discoverable, drunk, ducky, earnest, ebullient, ejaculatory,
   electric-heated, electrified, enthusiastic, erotic,
   eroticomaniacal, erotomaniacal, estral, estrous, estrual, excited,
   explosive, exposable, exuberant, fab, faithful, fanatic, febrile,
   ferruginous, fervent, fervid, fevered, feverish, feverous, fiery,
   findable, fine and dandy, fire-red, flame-colored, flame-red,
   flaming, fleshly, flushed, freaked-out, fugitive, gaga over,
   gas-heated, gear, glorious, glowing, goatish, gone on, great,
   grilling, groovy, gules, gynecomaniacal, hand-in-hand, hard-core,
   hasty, hearty, heated, heavy, hectic, hepped up over, het, het up,
   high-seasoned, high-tension, hipped on, horny, hot about,
   hot as fire, hot as hell, hot as pepper, hot-air-heated,
   hot-blooded, hot-tempered, hotheaded, hotted up, hunky-dory,
   hyperpyretic, hyperthermic, hysteromaniacal, impassioned,
   in a fever, in earnest, in flight, in heat, in must, in rut,
   incarmined, infected, inflamed, infrared, intense, intent,
   intent on, intimate, intoxicated, iron-red, irradiated, itching,
   ithyphallic, jam-up, jazz, jazzed up, jazzy, just dandy, keen,
   lake-colored, laky, lascivious, lateritious, lecherous, lewd,
   libidinous, lickerish, like a furnace, like an oven, live, lively,
   lobster-red, loyal, lubricious, lurid, lustful, mad about, madcap,
   maroon, marvy, mean, mild, must, musty, near, near the mark,
   nearing, nearish, neat, nifty, nigh, nighish, nippy, nobby,
   nuts about, nuts on, nymphomaniacal, obscene, oil-heated, okay,
   on fire, on the lam, orgasmic, orgastic, out of sight, overheated,
   overwarm, parching, passionate, peachy, peachy-keen, peppery,
   perfervid, pilfered, piping hot, pirated, plagiarized, poisoned,
   port-wine, priapic, propinque, proximal, proximate, prurient, puce,
   purloined, pyretic, quick, quick-tempered, racy, radiferous,
   radioactivated, radioactive, radioluminescent, ragtime, ragtimey,
   randy, rechauffe, recooked, red, red-dyed, red-hot, red-looking,
   reddened, reddish, reddish-amber, reddish-brown, reheated,
   resolute, ripping, roasting, rubicund, rubiginous, rubric,
   rubricose, ruby, ruby-colored, ruby-red, ruddied, ruddy, rufescent,
   rufous, rum, runaway, rust, rust-red, rusty, rutting, ruttish,
   rutty, salacious, satyric, scalding, scarlet, scorching,
   scrumptious, searing, seasoned, seething, sensual, serious,
   sex-starved, sexual, sexually excited, sexy, short-tempered,
   side-by-side, simmering, sincere, sizzling, sizzling hot, slap-up,
   smashing, smoking hot, smoldering, snappy, solid, something else,
   spiced, spicy, spiffing, spiffy, spirited, spottable, spunky,
   stammel, starry-eyed over, steam-heated, steamed up about,
   steaming, steamy, stolen, stunning, sudorific, sultry, summery,
   super, superheated, sweating, sweaty, swell, sweltering, sweltry,
   swingy, syncopated, tangy, tile-red, toasting, torrid,
   totally committed, tough, tropic, tropical, turned-on,
   unrestrained, unsatisfied, vehement, vermilion, vicinal, vigorous,
   vinaceous, volcanic, warm, warmed, warmed up, warmed-over,
   white-hot, wild about, wine-colored, wine-red, with a kick, wizard,
   zealous, zestful, zesty, zippy