[-ING2.] That makes warm, or becomes warm; lit. and fig. Also with up.
c. 1450. Mirk’s Festial, 160. Lyght fyre, schapon lyke tonges, brennyng and not smertyng, warmyng not harmyng.
1661. Feltham, Resolves, liii. (ed. 8), 293. The gentle … rayes of the warming Sun.
c. 1680. R. Fleming, Fulfilling Script., II. v. (1726), 309. It is rare to find a warming heat with a large profession, such as can make it convincing to others.
1765. J. Brown, Chr. Jrnl., Winter Day, 287. With what amazing power do the warming beams of the Sun of righteousness dart into my soul!
1819. Scott, Ivanhoe, xxxvii. A warming and spicy-smelling balsam.
1851. Meredith, Poems, Pict. Rhine, iii. And now the sun In saffron clothes the warming atmosphere.
1886. Hardy, Woodlanders, ix. Do you think a Christmas party … is a warming-up thing, and likely to be useful in hastening on the matter?
