Vocabulary : Hot to Hotchpotch

Hot : of Hight ;; imp. & p. p. of Hote. ;; 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. ;; Characterized by heat, ardor, or animation; easily excited; firely; vehement; passionate; violent; eager. ;; Lustful; lewd; lecherous. ;; Acrid; biting; pungent; as, hot as mustard. ;; of Hote ;; of Hote
Hot blast : See under Blast.
Hot bulb : Alt. of Hot pot
Hot pot : See Semi-diesel, below.
Hotbed : A bed of earth heated by fermenting manure or other substances, and covered with glass, intended for raising early plants, or for nourishing exotics. ;; A place which favors rapid growth or development; as, a hotbed of sedition.

Hot-blooded : Having hot blood; excitable; high-spirited; irritable; ardent; passionate.
Hot-brained : Ardent in temper; violent; rash; impetuous; as, hot-brained youth.
Hotchkiss gun : A built-up, rifled, rapid-fire gun of oil-tempered steel, having a rectangular breechblock which moves horizontally or vertically in a mortise cut completely through the jacket. It is made in France.
Hotchpot : Alt. of Hotchpotch
Hotchpotch : A mingled mass; a confused mixture; a stew of various ingredients; a hodgepodge. ;; A blending of property for equality of division, as when lands given in frank-marriage to one daughter were, after the death of the ancestor, blended with the lands descending to her and to her sisters from the same ancestor, and then divided in equal portions among all the daughters. In modern usage, a mixing together, or throwing into a common mass or stock, of the estate left by a person deceased and the amounts advanced to any particular child or children, for the purpose of a more equal division, or of equalizing the shares of all the children; the property advanced being accounted for at its value when given.

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