heats

verb

1. (form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person)third-person singular simple present indicative of heat

noun

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

   “Everyone suffered during the heats of July.”

   “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.”

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

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