HEAT, n.
Heat, says Professor Tyndall, is a mode Of motion, but I know now how he's proving His point; but this I know--hot words bestowed With skill will set the human fist a-moving, And where it stops the stars burn free and wild. _Crede expertum_--I have seen them, child.
Gorton Swope
--Ambrose Bierce - The Devil's Dictionary