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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



... of 1909 a general war seemed imminent; for Slavonic feeling was violently excited in Russia and Servia. But, hostilities being impossible in winter, passions had time to cool. It soon became evident that those States could not make head against Austria and Germany. Moreover, the Franco-Russian alliance did not bind France to act with Russia unless the latter were definitely attacked; and France ...
— The Development of the European Nations, 1870-1914 (5th ed.) • John Holland Rose
... innumerable examples of plants growing luxuriantly in soils and places where no humus exists. The sands of the sea-shore, and the most barren rocks, have their vegetation, and the red-hot ashes which are thrown out by active volcanoes are no sooner cool than a crop of plants ...
— Elements of Agricultural Chemistry • Thomas Anderson
... of their natural productions. These forest brooks, with their clear, cold waters brawling over their sandy or pebbly beds through wild tropical glens, always had a great charm for me. The beauty of the moist, cool, and luxuriant glades was heightened by the contrast they afforded to the sterile country around them. The bare or scantily wooded hills which surround the valley are parched by the rays of the vertical sun. One of them, the Pico do Irura, forms a nearly perfect cone, rising from a small ...
— The Naturalist on the River Amazons • Henry Walter Bates
... with an appreciative sniff. "Hav'n't seen a bit o' that for a long time! Well, then, up comes Mr. Oscard as cool as a cowcumber, and Mr. Meredith he gives a sort of little laugh and says, 'Open that gate.' Quite quiet, yer know. No high falutin' and potry and that. A few minutes before he had been fightin' and cussin' and shoutin', just like ...
— With Edged Tools • Henry Seton Merriman
... patience of a Stoic. Wildcat sat beside him with equal patience. An hour passed, Peegwish dipped a wooden spoon into the pot and tasted. The result was not satisfactory—it burnt his lips. He let the spoonful cool, and tried again. The liquid was marvellously like barley-broth, with which delicacy he was well acquainted. Another hour passed; again he dipped the spoon, and again met with disappointment, for his ...
— The Red Man's Revenge - A Tale of The Red River Flood • R.M. Ballantyne


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