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▸ noun:  A general tendency or orientation towards a certain type of mood, a volatile state; a habitual way of thinking, behaving or reacting.
▸ noun:  State of mind; mood.
▸ noun:  A tendency to become angry.
▸ noun:  Anger; a fit of anger.
▸ noun:  Calmness of mind; moderation; equanimity; composure.
▸ noun:  (obsolete) Constitution of body; the mixture or relative proportion of the four humours: blood, choler, phlegm, and melancholy.
▸ noun:  Middle state or course; mean; medium.
▸ noun:  The state of any compound substance which results from the mixture of various ingredients; due mixture of different qualities.
▸ noun:  The heat treatment to which a metal or other material has been subjected; a material that has undergone a particular heat treatment.
▸ noun:  The state of a metal or other substance, especially as to its hardness, produced by some process of heating or cooling.
▸ noun:  (sugar manufacture, historical) Milk of lime, or other substance, employed in the process formerly used to clarify sugar.
▸ noun:  (pottery, architecture) A non-plastic material, such as sand, added to clay to prevent shrinkage and cracking during drying or firing; tempering.
▸ verb:  To moderate or control.
▸ verb:  To strengthen or toughen a material, especially metal, by heat treatment; anneal.
▸ verb:  (cooking) To adjust the temperature of an ingredient (e.g. eggs or chocolate) gradually so that it remains smooth and pleasing.
▸ verb:  To sauté spices in ghee or oil to release essential oils for flavouring a dish in South Asian cuisine.
▸ verb:  To mix clay, plaster or mortar with water to obtain the proper consistency.
▸ verb:  (music) To adjust, as the mathematical scale to the actual scale, or to that in actual use.
▸ verb:  (obsolete, Latinism) To govern; to manage.
▸ verb:  (archaic) To combine in due proportions; to constitute; to compose.
▸ verb:  (archaic) 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.
▸ verb:  (obsolete) To fit together; to adjust; to accommodate.

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