heats

• IPA^(key): /hiːts/

heats

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of heat

heats

1. plural of heat (countable senses)
2. (plural noun, dated) A period of hot weather.

   Everyone suffered during the heats of July.

   • 1830, Usher Parsons, On the comparative influence of Vegetable and Animal Decomposition as a cause of Fever.‎:

     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.

   • 1871, Robert Scott Burn, Masonry, Bricklaying and Plastering‎, published 2015, page 156:

     During the heats of summer the mortar is injured by a too rapid desiccation.

   • 1901, Albert Matthews, The Term Indian Summer‎, page 34:

     Day after day succeeds of most delicious, dreamy softness; not enervating like the heats of summer, but exhilarating to soul and body.

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