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HEAT, n. Heat, says Professor Tyndall, is a mode Of motion, but I know now how he's proving His poi
but this I know -- hot words bestowed With skill will set the human fi...
Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot That it do singe yourself.
-- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), King Henry VIII -- Act i, Sc. 1...
Heat produced by pressure expands to fill the mind available, from which it can pass only to a cooler mind.
-- C. Northcote Parkinso...
heatseeker: [IBM] n. A customer who can be relied upon to buy, without fail, the latest version of an existing product (not quite the same as a member of the {lunatic fringe}).
A 1993 example...
Heav'd on Olympus tott'ring Ossa stood; On Ossa, Pelion nods with all his wood.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Odyssey of Homer, Book xi, Line 387...
Heave Ho - Bruins Blow!
Heave Ho - GO HABS GO!
Heave Ho - Rangers Blow!
Heaven allows glimpses only to those at a distance.
Heaven can wait.

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