 |
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Cool \Cool\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Cooled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {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. --Luke xvi. 24.
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. --Shak.
{To cool the heels}, to dance attendance; to wait, as for admission to a patron's house. [Colloq.] --Dryden.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Cooling \Cool"ing\, p. a. Adapted to cool and refresh; allaying heat. ''The cooling brook.'' --Goldsmith.
{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. --Wharton.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
cooling
noun
1: the process of becoming cooler; a falling temperature [syn: {chilling}, {temperature reduction}]
2: a mechanism for keeping something cool; "the cooling was overhead fans" [syn: {cooling system}]
 |
Definitions retrieved from local copies of the freely distributed DICT client/server software and databases. Click here for database copyright information. - KM |