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Cool   /kul/   Listen
adjective
Cool  adj.  (compar. cooler; superl. coolest)  
1.
Moderately cold; between warm and cold; lacking in warmth; producing or promoting coolness. "Fanned with cool winds."
2.
Not ardent, warm, fond, or passionate; not hasty; deliberate; exercising self-control; self-possessed; dispassionate; indifferent; as, a cool lover; a cool debater. "For a patriot, too cool."
3.
Not retaining heat; light; as, a cool dress.
4.
Manifesting coldness or dislike; chilling; apathetic; as, a cool manner.
5.
Quietly impudent; negligent of propriety in matters of minor importance, either ignorantly or willfully; presuming and selfish; audacious; as, cool behavior. "Its cool stare of familiarity was intolerable."
6.
Applied facetiously, in a vague sense, to a sum of money, commonly as if to give emphasis to the largeness of the amount. "He had lost a cool hundred." "Leaving a cool thousand to Mr. Matthew Pocket."
Synonyms: Calm; dispassionate; self-possessed; composed; repulsive; frigid; alienated; impudent.


verb
Cool  v. t.  (past & past part. cooled; pres. part. cooling)  
1.
To make cool or cold; to reduce the temperature of; as, ice cools water. "Send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue."
2.
To moderate the heat or excitement of; to allay, as passion of any kind; to calm; to moderate. "We have reason to cool our raging motions, our carnal stings, our unbitted lusts."
To cool the heels, to dance attendance; to wait, as for admission to a patron's house. (Colloq.)


Cool  v. i.  
1.
To become less hot; to lose heat. "I saw a smith stand with his hammer, thus, the whilst his iron did on the anvil cool."
2.
To lose the heat of excitement or passion; to become more moderate. "I will not give myself liberty to think, lest I should cool."


noun
Cool  n.  A moderate state of cold; coolness; said of the temperature of the air between hot and cold; as, the cool of the day; the cool of the morning or evening.





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— The Dawn of Canadian History: A Chronicle of Aboriginal Canada • Stephen Leacock
... American government, however, were little suited to meet the expense of a war; and the friends of peace, though outvoted in the legislative assemblies, yet felt confident that the prospect of loans and taxes would cool the military ardour of a people unaccustomed to ...
— The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. - From George III. to Victoria • E. Farr and E. H. Nolan


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