From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Cool \Cool\, a. [Compar. {Cooler}; superl. {Coolest}.] [AS.
c[=o]l; akin to D. koel, G. k["u]hl, OHG. chouli, Dan.
k["o]lig, Sw. kylig, also to AS. calan to be cold, Icel.
kala. See {Cold}, and cf. {Chill}.]
1. Moderately cold; between warm and cold; lacking in warmth;
producing or promoting coolness.
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Fanned with cool winds. --Milton.
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2. Not ardent, warm, fond, or passionate; not hasty;
deliberate; exercising self-control; self-possessed;
dispassionate; indifferent; as, a cool lover; a cool
debater.
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For a patriot, too cool. --Goldsmith.
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3. Not retaining heat; light; as, a cool dress.
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4. Manifesting coldness or dislike; chilling; apathetic; as,
a cool manner.
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5. Quietly impudent; negligent of propriety in matters of
minor importance, either ignorantly or willfully;
presuming and selfish; audacious; as, cool behavior.
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Its cool stare of familiarity was intolerable.
--Hawthorne.
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6. Applied facetiously, in a vague sense, to a sum of money,
commonly as if to give emphasis to the largeness of the
amount.
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He had lost a cool hundred. --Fielding.
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Leaving a cool thousand to Mr. Matthew Pocket.
--Dickens.
Syn: Calm; dispassionate; self-possessed; composed;
repulsive; frigid; alienated; impudent.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Cool \Cool\, v. i.
1. To become less hot; to lose heat.
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I saw a smith stand with his hammer, thus,
the whilst his iron did on the anvil cool. --Shak.
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2. To lose the heat of excitement or passion; to become more
moderate.
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I will not give myself liberty to think, lest I
should cool. --Congreve.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Cool \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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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Cool \Cool\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Cooled}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Cooling}.]
1. To make cool or cold; to reduce the temperature of; as,
ice cools water.
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Send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger
in water, and cool my tongue. --Luke xvi.
24.
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2. To moderate the heat or excitement of; to allay, as
passion of any kind; to calm; to moderate.
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We have reason to cool our raging motions, our
carnal stings, our unbitted lusts. --Shak.
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{To cool the heels}, to dance attendance; to wait, as for
admission to a patron's house. [Colloq.] --Dryden.
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From V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (June 2013) [vera]:
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