échauffaison, n.f., (med.) overheating, eruption, rash.
échauffant, -e, adj., heating, binding.
échauffe, n.f., heap. Mettre les peaux en —; to heap the hides.
échauffé, n.m., odor (caused by excessive heat). Sentir l’—; to have or exhale a hot smell.
échauffée, n.f., first operation of salt-makers in warming their oven.
échauffement (é-shôf-mān), n.m., heating; over-excitement.
échauffer, v.a., to warm, to beat, to overheat; to excite, to inflame, to irritate, to anger; to vex. Échauffez la chambre; warm the room. Les épices échauffent le sang; spices heat the blood. Cela lui échauffe la bile; that provokes him.
s’échauffer, v.r., to grow warm, to overheat one’s self; to grow angry, to fly into a passion, to chafe, to fume. La chambre s’échauffe; the room is getting warm. Il s’est échauffé à marcher; walking has made him warm. La querelle s’échauffe; the quarrel is running high. Le jeu s’échauffe; they are playing deep. S’— sur la voie; (hunt.) to follow the chase eagerly.
échauffourée, n.f., a rash, headlong, or blundering enterprise; skirmish, affray; blunder.
échauffure, n.f., red pimple, rash.