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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



... Northern Germany—the scene of the stupendous triumphs of Luther—is and has been, since the time of Frederick the Great, the hot-bed of rationalistic inquiries; and the Genevan as well as the French and Swiss churches which Calvin controlled have become cold, with a dreary and formal Protestantism, without poetry or life. But the Church of England has survived two revolutions and all the changes of human thought, and is still a mighty power, decorous, beautiful, conservative, yet open to all the liberalizing influences of an age of science and ...
— Beacon Lights of History, Volume VI • John Lord

... near, and now stood watching—"and with Daddy Dan, you just come to me. But if you want to go to—to Munner, you just go." On his face the struggle showed—the struggle to be perfectly just. "If you stay here, maybe it'll be cold, sometimes when the wind blows, and maybe it'll be hard other ways. And if you go to munner, she always be takin' care of you, and no harm'll ever come to you and you'll sleep soft between sheets, and if you wake up in the night she'll be there to talk to you. And you'll have pretty little ...
— The Seventh Man • Max Brand

... citizens shall view him, and the great Remunerator shall examine, and shall punish! If anger, hatred, and enmity are buried with a man, as it is believed, begin then to return to yourself; begin to be ashamed to have acted against your ancient humanity; begin, then, to wish to appear a mother, and not a cold negligent step-dame. Yield your tears to your son; yield your maternal piety to him whom once you repulsed, and, living, cast away from you! At least think of possessing him dead, and restore your citizenship, your award, and your grace, to his memory. He was a son ...
— Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 3 (of 3) • Isaac D'Israeli

... gendarme Rengade roughly opened a way for himself through the crowd of inquisitive idlers. As soon as he heard that the troops had returned with several hundred insurgents, he had risen from bed, shivering with fever, and risking his life in the cold, dark December air. Scarcely was he out of doors when his wound reopened, the bandage which covered his eyeless socket became stained with blood, and a red streamlet trickled over his cheek and moustache. ...
— The Fortune of the Rougons • Emile Zola

... which I think became and was incumbent upon me, but which I by no means conceive to have been a fit rule for others, I cannot repent it. While the slightest aspiration of breath passed those lips, now closed for ever,—while one drop of life's blood beat in that heart, now cold for ever,—I could not, I ought not, to have acted otherwise than I did.—I now come with a very embarrassed feeling to that declaration which I yet think you must have expected from me, but which I make with reluctance, because, from the ...
— Memoirs of the Life of Rt. Hon. Richard Brinsley Sheridan Vol 2 • Thomas Moore


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