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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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"Cool" Quotes from Famous Books



... are particularly trained to do this by our consideration of facts as they exist, and I think it will be recognized by all that we are not in our work or activities bound by any precedent, even if we do learn all that we can from the past; and that we are by nature and training of a cool and calculating disposition, which is surely a thing that is needed in this ...
— Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, Vol. LXX, Dec. 1910 • John A. Bensel
... two Pounds of Raisins of the Sun stoned; to this, put the Peel of one large Lemon, and about forty large fresh Cloves: boil all these together, taking off the Scum carefully as it rises; then pour it off into some Vessel to cool, and as soon as it is cool enough to put Yeast to it, work it as you would do Ale for two days, and then tunn it, taking care not to stop the Vessel till it has done Working, and in a Month's time it ...
— The Country Housewife and Lady's Director - In the Management of a House, and the Delights and Profits of a Farm • Richard Bradley
... must discuss to-day is a suitable nest for winter. We cannot occupy the one in the cherry tree much longer, for it is growing windy and cool. Then, too, there must be some home-work planned for each one to report at our meetings," ...
— The Blue Birds' Winter Nest • Lillian Elizabeth Roy
... with the fanatical enthusiasm of his comrades, and certainly more cool and deliberate in his ambition, Bohemond, son of Robert Guiscard, looked to the crusade as a means by which he might regain the vast regions extending from the Dalmatian coast to the northern shores ...
— The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 5 • Various
... Cool, grave, and tranquil, Lawrence took her hand. "Clara is dead." He felt her trembling, and found a form of consolation which would have been slow to occur to his unprompted fancy. "Better so, isn't it? She wouldn't have been very happy after her ...
— Nightfall • Anthony Pryde


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