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adjective

Cooling adj. Adapted to cool and refresh; allaying heat. "The cooling brook."

Cooling card, something that dashes hopes. (Obs.)

Cooling time (Law), such a lapse of time as ought, taking all the circumstances of the case in view, to produce a subsiding of passion previously provoked.

verb

Cool v. t. (past & past part. cooled; pres. part. cooling)

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."

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.

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."

To lose the heat of excitement or passion; to become more moderate. "I will not give myself liberty to think, lest I should cool."

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Etymology of 'Cooling'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Cooling" Quotes from Famous Books

... a dozen yards away when that young buck of a stableman drove up with the trap. What excuse for going? Blest if I remember—summat or other; knocked, and no one came. I don't know how long and all I stood cooling my heels at the door. Then I saw a light coming from a room on the first floor, and up I went and knocked. 'Come in,' says somebody. I went in. Withered old party got up. Black crape and beads, you know. But, afore I could speak, she reeled like a top and fell all of ...

— A Son of Hagar - A Romance of Our Time • Sir Hall Caine

... first laws of sanitation may be imagined. Plague was never far away. Every few years there would be a visitation, mild or severe, and there was no effective remedy known to the people. As in the time of the great plague of London, herbs and cooling drinks were employed, fresh air was in demand, and there was much burning of spices. Shakespeare was a baby in arms when a visitation of the plague gave nearly fifteen per cent. of the town's population to the graveyard or ...

— William Shakespeare - His Homes and Haunts • Samuel Levy Bensusan

... season was always a trial to Miss Slessor; it shrivelled her up, and reduced her energy, and she panted for the cooling rains. This year it affected her more than ever. The harmattan was like an Edinburgh "haar," though it was not cold except between midnight and daybreak; the air was thick with fine sand dust, and often she could not see three yards away. ...

— Mary Slessor of Calabar: Pioneer Missionary • W. P. Livingstone

... zinc in the upper part of the window, must be used. Cold air should never be admitted under the doors, or at the bottom of a room, unless it be close to the fire or stove; for it will flow along the floor towards the fireplace, and thus leave the foul air in the upper part of the room, unpurified, cooling, at the same time, unpleasantly and injuriously, the feet ...

— The Book of Household Management • Mrs. Isabella Beeton

... every portly alderman, In linen suit arrayed, Manipulates the palm-leaf fan And seeks the cooling shade; And he perspires who not in vain Suggests his funny squibs, By poking his unwelcome cane ...

— Poems - Vol. IV • Hattie Howard

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