| afire | on fire, burning |
| Althaea | [al'thaya] mother of Meleager, whose life-span was determined by the preservation of a magic log; when Althaea burnt the log on a fire, Meleager died |
| blister | burn-mark |
| blood | man of fire, hot-blooded fellow, spirited youth |
| blow | breathe hot breath [on] |
| burn | infect [with venereal disease] |
| burn | suffer from venereal disease |
| burn | waste, fritter away |
| burn | warm up, spice up |
| burning zone | inter-tropical domain encircling the earth |
| burnt | mulled, heated |
| cantherizing | cauterizing, burning with a hot iron |
| choleric | inclined to anger, hot-tempered, irascible |
| cinder | burning coal, flaming ember |
| fe, fe | Fie, fie, fie, fie, faith, it's very hot. I'm going to watch the great business at court' |
| fire | ardour, fervour, burning passion |
| fire-ill | burning disease [possibly: pox] |
| flap-dragons | [game of bravado] snap-dragons: small burning objects floating on liquor, which have to be avoided while drinking; or: edible objects floating on burning liquor, to be seized and eaten |
| fry | burn with lust; or: burn in hell |
| hot | hot-tempered, angry, passionate |
| hot | active, vigorous |
| hot | feverish, heated, burning |
| hot | enthusiastic, ardent, eager, keen |
| hot | lecherous, lustful, hot-blooded |
| hot | fast, hasty |
| hot-blooded | lecherous, passionate, lustful |
| hot-house | brothel; bath-house |
| link | blacking [from a burnt torch] |
| Meleager | [pron: melee'ager] son of Althaea, his life-span determined by an unburnt magic log; he murdered his uncles in a quarrel over the killing of a boar ravaging the fields in Calydon; in her rage Althaea burnt Meleager’s log on a fire, and he died |
| Nero | [pron: 'neeroh] Roman emperor, 1st-c, who slew his mother, Agrippina; said to have played on his lute while watching Rome burn; considered a model of cruelty |
| outburn | burn away, incinerate, be consumed |
| pepper-gingerbread | hot-spiced gingerbread |
| posset | restorative hot drink, made of milk, liquor, and other ingredients |
| relume | relight, rekindle, burn afresh |
| sauce | make things hot for, charge extortionately |
| smoke | burn, suffer severely |
| smoking | steaming hot, sending up spray |
| snuff | smouldering candle-end, burnt-out wick |
| spleenative | of angry temperament, hot-headed |
| spleenful | passionate, furious, hot-headed |
| spleeny | hot-headed, over-emotional |
| splenitive, spleenative | of angry temperament, hot-headed |
| swits and spurs | [switches] at full speed, in hot haste |
| toast | piece of hot toast, sop |
| vapour | hot steamy breath |
| wanton | sexually hot, passionate, sportive |
| wasted | spent, consumed, burnt-out |
| zone, burning | inter-tropical domain encircling the earth |