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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

... about it yet," remarked the toll-woman, cooling her tea and intent on enjoying her own story. "'Twasn't so very long ago, either. First comes word from this direction that a toll-gate keeper and his wife was tied and robbed at the dead o' night. And ...

— Old Caravan Days • Mary Hartwell Catherwood

... his voice to a shout.] Am I to be kept here cooling my feet on your rain-pipe? Hi, ...

— Chantecler - Play in Four Acts • Edmond Rostand

... faces were peering through half-open doors. A few stripling clerks appeared with belated offers of assistance, but Jim waved them back. Already Jim was cooling off. He could not afford to retain such a passion, and he mopped his face and neck for a few moments without speaking. His breath was gone, but ...

— The Short Line War • Merwin-Webster

... beings had to toil their hardest at this time. At the manor they were cutting clover and hoeing turnips; in the cottages the women were piling up the potatoes, while the old women were gathering mallows for cooling drinks and lime-blossoms against the ague. The priest spent all his days tracking and taking swarms of bees; Josel, the innkeeper, was making vinegar. The woods resounded with the voices of ...

— Selected Polish Tales • Various

... suggests the highest lines on which to take the subject, and I would ask, are you specially careful to come to breakfast full of sunshine on Sunday mornings, as on a "day of rest and gladness"? Is it a cooling fountain to you? Do you soak yourself enough in good thoughts to be more soothed and peaceful than you were on Saturday? Was last Sunday a Pisgah's mountain?—did you cast so much as a glance at the promised Land, at ...

— Stray Thoughts for Girls • Lucy H. M. Soulsby

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