Another thesaurus entry.

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From "Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases: Classic American Edition, first published in 1852.

Heat

phlogiston; fire, spark, scintillation, flash, flame, blaze; arc; bonfire; firework, pyrotechny; wild-fire; sheet of fire, lambent flame; devouring element; conflagration.

summer, dog-days, canicule; baking, white heat, tropical heat, Afric heat, Bengal heat, summer heat, bloodheat; heat wave, sirocco, simoon; broiling sun; isolation; warming.

v. be hot; glow, incandesce, flush, sweat, swelter, bask, smoke, reek, stew, simmer, seethe, boil, burn, singe, scorch, scald, grill, broil, blaze, flame; smoulder; parch, fume, pant.

adj.fiery; incandescent, incalescent; candent, ebullient, glowing, smoking; on fire; blazing; in flames; in a blze; alight, afire, ablaze; unquenched, unextinguished; smouldering; in a heat, in a glow, in a fever, in a perspiration, in a sweat; sudorific; sweltering, sweltered; blood-hot, blood-warm; warm as a toast, warm as wool; recalescent, thermogenic, pyrotechnic, feverish, febrile, inflamed.

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Comments

[rickfan37.livejournal.com]

A Suethor could have a field day with this tome.
Their broiling passion would forever be ebullient, a drenched phlogiston eternally panting and being hot

[zakkati.livejournal.com]

Okay. Now I'm hot too! There should be a book-banning of Thesaurus... Er, what is the plural of thesaurus? Thesauri? Thesauruses? *scratches head*