heats

Etymology

verb

  1. third-person singular simple present indicative of heat

noun

  1. plural of heat (countable senses)

noun

  1. (plural noun, dated) A period of hot weather.
    Everyone suffered during the heats of July.
    The heats of the spring, says M. Berthe, (which I need not observe are considerable at Seville,) were at this time beginning to be felt. 1830, Usher Parsons, On the comparative influence of Vegetable and Animal Decomposition as a cause of Fever.
    During the heats of summer the mortar is injured by a too rapid desiccation. 1871, Robert Scott Burn, Masonry, Bricklaying and Plastering, published 2015, page 156
    Day after day succeeds of most delicious, dreamy softness; not enervating like the heats of summer, but exhilarating to soul and body. 1901, Albert Matthews, The Term Indian Summer, page 34

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