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Cold

Cold (cold)
a.(k1913 webster dictionaryld)
Cold
[Compar. Colder (-1913 webster dictionaryr); superl. Coldest.] [OE. cold, cald, AS. cald, ceald; akin to OS. kald, D. koud, G. kalt, Icel. kaldr, Dan.
  1. Deprived of heat, or having a low temperature; not warm or hot; gelid; frigid.
    "The snowy top of cold Olympis." Milton.
  2. Lacking the sensation of warmth; suffering from the absence of heat; chilly; shivering; as, to be cold.
  3. Not pungent or acrid.
    "Cold plants." Bacon
  4. Wanting in ardor, intensity, warmth, zeal, or passion; spiritless; unconcerned; reserved.

    A cold and unconcerned spectator.
    T. Burnet.

    No cold relation is a zealous citizen.
    Burke.

  5. Unwelcome; disagreeable; unsatisfactory.
    "Cold news for me." "Cold comfort." Shak.
  6. Wanting in power to excite; dull; uninteresting.

    What a deal of cold business doth a man misspend the better part of life in!
    B. Jonson.

    The jest grows cold . . . when in comes on in a second scene.
    Addison.

  7. Affecting the sense of smell (as of hunting dogs) but feebly; having lost its odor; as, a cold scent.
  8. Not sensitive; not acute.

    Smell this business with a sense as cold
    As is a dead man's nose.
    Shak.

  9. Distant; -- said, in the game of hunting for some object, of a seeker remote from the thing concealed.
  10. Having a bluish effect. Cf. Warm, 8.

    Cold abscess. See under Abscess. -- Cold blast See under Blast, n., 2. -- Cold blood. See under Blood, n., 8. -- Cold chill, an ague fit. Wright. -- Cold chisel, a chisel of peculiar strength and hardness, for cutting cold metal. Weale. -- Cold cream. See under Cream. -- Cold slaw. See Cole slaw. -- In cold blood, without excitement or passion; deliberately.

    He was slain in cold blood after the fight was over.
    Sir W. Scott.

    To give one the cold shoulder, to treat one with neglect.

    Syn. -- Gelid; bleak; frigid; chill; indifferent; unconcerned; passionless; reserved; unfeeling; stoical.


Cold

Cold (cold)
n.
Cold
  1. The relative absence of heat or warmth.
  2. The sensation produced by the escape of heat; chilliness or chillness.

    When she saw her lord prepared to part,
    A deadly cold ran shivering to her heart.
    Dryden.

  3. A morbid state of the animal system produced by exposure to cold or dampness; a catarrh.

    Cold sore (Med.), a vesicular eruption appearing about the mouth as the result of a cold, or in the course of any disease attended with fever. -- To leave one out in the cold, to overlook or neglect him. [Colloq.]


Cold

Cold (cold)
v. i.
Cold
  1. To become cold.
    [Obs.] Chaucer.













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