(a) To feel a sensation of warmth or increasing warmth, be or become warm; (b) to be characterized by increasing perceptible warmth, grow temperate or mild; (c) to protect oneself from the cold, keep warm; (d) to impart heat, radiate warmth;—used in fig. context; (e) ppl. warminge, physiol. ?capable of stimulating natural metabolic heat; (f) fig. to be or become inflamed by emotion.

Refl. To bring about in oneself a sensation or an increased sensation of bodily warmth, warm oneself, get warm; also iron. [quot. c1275].

(a) To cause (sb., a part of the body) to become warm by exposure to externally generated heat, conservation of bodily heat, etc.; (b) to cause (a material object or substance) to become warm by subjecting it to externally generated heat, heat moderately; also, make (sth.) hot, heat up; (c) to impart to (sb. or sth.) one’s bodily warmth; of the sun: warm (sth.); (d) physiol. to increase the metabolic heat of (the body, a bodily member); stimulate (the brain, the heart); ?also, overexcite (the heart) [1st quot.]; (e) fig. to inflame (the heart) with emotion.