CPage 274
- English Word Cold Definition Lacking the sensation of warmth; suffering from the absence of heat; chilly; shivering; as, to be cold.
- English Word Cold Definition Not pungent or acrid.
- English Word Cold Definition Wanting in ardor, intensity, warmth, zeal, or passion; spiritless; unconcerned; reserved.
- English Word Cold Definition Unwelcome; disagreeable; unsatisfactory.
- English Word Cold Definition Wanting in power to excite; dull; uninteresting.
- English Word Cold Definition Affecting the sense of smell (as of hunting dogs) but feebly; having lost its odor; as, a cold scent.
- English Word Cold Definition Not sensitive; not acute.
- English Word Cold Definition Distant; -- said, in the game of hunting for some object, of a seeker remote from the thing concealed.
- English Word Cold Definition Having a bluish effect. Cf. Warm, 8.
- English Word Cold Definition The relative absence of heat or warmth.
- English Word Cold Definition The sensation produced by the escape of heat; chilliness or chillness.
- English Word Cold Definition A morbid state of the animal system produced by exposure to cold or dampness; a catarrh.
- English Word Cold Definition To become cold.
- English Word Cold-blooded Definition Having cold blood; -- said of fish or animals whose blood is but little warmer than the water or air about them.
- English Word Cold-blooded Definition Deficient in sensibility or feeling; hard-hearted.
- English Word Cold-blooded Definition Not thoroughbred; -- said of animals, as horses, which are derived from the common stock of a country.
- English Word Cold-hearted Definition Wanting passion or feeling; indifferent.
- English Word Cold-short Definition Brittle when cold; as, cold-short iron.
- English Word Cold-shut Definition Closed while too cold to become thoroughly welded; -- said of a forging or casting.
- English Word Cold-shut Definition An imperfection caused by such insufficient welding.
- English Word Coldfinch Definition A British wagtail.
- English Word Coldish Definition Somewhat cold; cool; chilly.
- English Word Coldly Definition In a cold manner; without warmth, animation, or feeling; with indifference; calmly.
- English Word Coldness Definition The state or quality of being cold.
- English Word Cole Definition A plant of the Brassica or Cabbage genus; esp. that form of B. oleracea called rape and coleseed.
- English Word Colegoose Definition See Coalgoose.
- English Word Colemanite Definition A hydrous borate of lime occurring in transparent colorless or white crystals, also massive, in Southern California.
- English Word Colemouse Definition See Coletit.
- English Word Coleopter Definition One of the Coleoptera.
- English Word Coleoptera Definition An order of insects having the anterior pair of wings (elytra) hard and horny, and serving as coverings for the posterior pair, which are membranous, and folded transversely under the others when not in use. The mouth parts form two pairs of jaws (mandibles and maxillae) adapted for chewing. Most of the Coleoptera are known as beetles and weevils.