These are the meanings of the letters EPTMER when you unscramble them.
- Temper (n.)
Calmness of mind; moderation; equanimity; composure; as, to keep one's temper.
- Temper (n.)
Constitution of body; temperament; in old writers, the mixture or relative proportion of the four humors, blood, choler, phlegm, and melancholy.
- Temper (n.)
Disposition of mind; the constitution of the mind, particularly with regard to the passions and affections; as, a calm temper; a hasty temper; a fretful temper.
- Temper (n.)
Heat of mind or passion; irritation; proneness to anger; -- in a reproachful sense.
- Temper (n.)
Middle state or course; mean; medium.
- Temper (n.)
Milk of lime, or other substance, employed in the process formerly used to clarify sugar.
- Temper (n.)
The state of a metal or other substance, especially as to its hardness, produced by some process of heating or cooling; as, the temper of iron or steel.
- Temper (n.)
The state of any compound substance which results from the mixture of various ingredients; due mixture of different qualities; just combination; as, the temper of mortar.
- Temper (v. i.)
To accord; to agree; to act and think in conformity.
- Temper (v. i.)
To have or get a proper or desired state or quality; to grow soft and pliable.
- Temper (v. t.)
To adjust, as the mathematical scale to the actual scale, or to that in actual use.
- Temper (v. t.)
To bring to a proper degree of hardness; as, to temper iron or steel.
- Temper (v. t.)
To fit together; to adjust; to accomodate.
- Temper (v. t.)
To govern; to manage.
- Temper (v. t.)
To mingle in due proportion; to prepare by combining; to modify, as by adding some new element; to qualify, as by an ingredient; hence, to soften; to mollify; to assuage; to soothe; to calm.
- Temper (v. t.)
To moisten to a proper consistency and stir thoroughly, as clay for making brick, loam for molding, etc.