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Cold   /koʊld/   Listen
adjective
Cold  adj.  (compar. colder; superl. coldest)  
1.
Deprived of heat, or having a low temperature; not warm or hot; gelid; frigid. "The snowy top of cold Olympis."
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."
4.
Wanting in ardor, intensity, warmth, zeal, or passion; spiritless; unconcerned; reserved. "A cold and unconcerned spectator." "No cold relation is a zealous citizen."
5.
Unwelcome; disagreeable; unsatisfactory. "Cold news for me." "Cold comfort."
6.
Wanting in power to excite; dull; uninteresting. "What a deal of cold business doth a man misspend the better part of life in!" "The jest grows cold... when in comes on in a second scene."
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."
9.
Distant; said, in the game of hunting for some object, of a seeker remote from the thing concealed.
10.
(Paint.) 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.
Cold chisel, a chisel of peculiar strength and hardness, for cutting cold metal.
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."
To give one the cold shoulder, to treat one with neglect.
Synonyms: Gelid; bleak; frigid; chill; indifferent; unconcerned; passionless; reserved; unfeeling; stoical.



noun
Cold  n.  
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."
3.
(Med.) 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.)



verb
Cold  v. i.  To become cold. (Obs.)






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"Cold" Quotes from Famous Books



... hath made the best vinyard that I have heard of in England. He sayes that the Navarre grape is the best for our climate, and that the eastern sunn does most comfort the vine, by putting off the cold. Mr. Jo. Ash, of Teffont Ewyas, has a pretty vineyard of about six acres, made anno 1665. Sir Walter Erneley, Baronet, told me, a little before he died, that he was making one at Stert, I thinke, neer ...
— The Natural History of Wiltshire • John Aubrey

... afternoon's work, because it rested her to go into it, and she always hoped to snatch a few minutes to sit down in the soft chair and look about her, and think about the wonderful good fortune of the child who owned such surroundings and who went out on the cold days in beautiful hats and coats one tried to catch a glimpse of through ...
— A Little Princess • Frances Hodgson Burnett

... this is so, that these painted Gospel leaves stuck on the cell walls are merely such mechanical aids to devotion, explains the curious and startling treatment of some of the subjects, which are yet, despite the seeming novelty and impressiveness, very cold, undramatic, and unimaginative. Thus, there is the fresco of Christ enthroned, blindfold, with alongside of Him a bodiless scoffing head, with hat raised, and in the act of spitting; buffeting hands, equally detached ...
— Renaissance Fancies and Studies - Being a Sequel to Euphorion • Violet Paget (AKA Vernon Lee)

... that a man's life is worth saving, whoever it belongs to. (Richard makes him an ironical bow. Anderson returns the bow humorously.) Come: you'll have a cup of tea, to prevent you catching cold? ...
— The Devil's Disciple • George Bernard Shaw

... answer to this is twofold. Firstly, the theatre has never been, and never will be, a moral dissecting room, nor has the theatrical audience anything in common with a class of students dispassionately following a professor's demonstration of cold scientific facts. Secondly, in the particular case in point, the dramatist makes a manifest appeal to our sympathies. There can be no doubt that we are intended to take Lona's part, as against the representatives of propriety and convention assembled ...
— Play-Making - A Manual of Craftsmanship • William Archer


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