The Devil's Dictionary: Heat

Updated May 14, 2020 | Infoplease Staff
by Ambrose Bierce
HEART
HEATHEN

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

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