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Making hot; producing or communicating heat.

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  1. a. Making hot; producing or communicating heat.
  2. n. An apartment in a monastery, warmed and used as a sitting room.
  3. n. A hollow sphere of metal, filled with hot water, or a chafing dish, placed on the altar in cold weather for the priest to warm his hands with.
  4. adj. serving to heat
  5. Making hot; producing or communicating heat. 1. (Eccl.) An apartment in a monastery, warmed and used as a sitting room. 2. A hollow sphere of metal, filled with hot water, or a chafing dish, placed on the altar in cold weather for the priest to warm his hands with.