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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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"Cooling" Quotes from Famous Books

... street, moving at a mere footpace, every horse's nose touching the back of the next vehicle. The sun could not shine too hotly; it made colours brighter, gave a new beauty to the glittering public-houses, where names of cooling drinks seemed to cry aloud. He enjoyed a "block," and was disappointed unless he saw the policeman at Wellington Street holding up his hand whilst the cross traffic from north and south rolled grandly through. It always reminded him of the Bible story—Moses ...

— The Town Traveller • George Gissing

... penetrates deeper and deeper down towards the lower surface, where it naturally keeps at an even temperature with the underlying water. Observations of the temperature of the ice in its different layers were constantly taken in order to ascertain how quickly this cooling-down process of the ice took place during the winter, and also how the temperature rose again towards spring. The lowest temperature of the ice occurred in March and the beginning of April, when at 1.2 metres it ...

— Farthest North - Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship 'Fram' 1893-1896 • Fridtjof Nansen

... certain cataclysmic events, each of which marks a point of departure for new ascents in progression. I should begin, of course, with the Nebular Hypothesis, its crash of suns, followed by the evolution of the star and its system of planets, its life, cooling, death, and a fresh crisis forming a new nebula. I should end with either Revolutions or Malaria, depending on whether I should last consider the subject in its relation to sociology or to pathology; but ...

— Double Trouble - Or, Every Hero His Own Villain • Herbert Quick

... oppressively hot, and had it not been for Jack's anxiety he would have enjoyed the swift cooling passage through the thundery air. But he was strangely troubled. Did that letter mean that his father was on the verge ...

— The Boy Inventors' Radio Telephone • Richard Bonner

... also, branching from the great granitic axis in the peninsula of Tres Montes, I observed that quartz was more abundant in them than in the main rock: I have heard of other analogous cases: can we account for this fact, by the long-continued vicinity of quartz when cooling, and by its having been thus more easily sucked into fissures than the other constituent minerals of granite? (See a paper by M. Elie de Beaumont, "Soc. Philomath." May 1839 "L'Institut." 1839 page 161.) The strata encasing the flanks of ...

— South American Geology - also: - Title: Geological Observations On South America • Charles Darwin

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