warm

Then shall it [an ash tree] be for a man to burn; for he will take thereof and warm himself.

My socks are warming by the fire.

Mr. Campion appeared suitably impressed and she warmed to him. He was very easy to talk to with those long clown lines in his pale face, a natural goon, born rather too early she suspected.

The speaker warms as he proceeds.

there was a collection of all that had been written […] : I warmed my head with them.

Not bothering to turn around and not missing a mouthful, Myrtle comforted her with threats of "I'll warm your bottom"; "I'll turn you over to your dad"; "I'll lock you in the truck"; "I'll send for the bogey man" — all of which Darleen ignored […]