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<p><b>4.</b> <def>Manifesting coldness or dislike; chilling; apathetic; <as>as, a <ex>cool</ex> manner</as>.</def>

<p><b>5.</b> <def>Quietly impudent; negligent of propriety in matters of minor importance, either ignorantly or willfully; presuming and selfish; audacious; <as>as, <ex>cool</ex> behavior</as>.</def>

<blockquote>Its <b>cool</b> stare of familiarity was intolerable. <i>Hawthorne.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>6.</b> <def>Applied facetiously, in a vague sense, to a sum of money, commonly as if to give emphasis to the largeness of the amount.</def>

<blockquote>He had lost a <b>cool</b> hundred. <i>Fielding.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>Leaving a <b>cool</b> thousand to Mr.Matthew Pocket. <i>Dickens.</i></blockquote>

<syn>Syn. -- Calm; dispassionate; self-possessed; composed; repulsive; frigid; alienated; impudent.</syn>

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<hw>Cool</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>A moderate state of cold; coolness; -- said of the temperature of the air between hot and cold; <as>as, the <ex>cool</ex> of the day; the <ex>cool</ex> of the morning or evening.</as></def>

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<hw>Cool</hw>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p.p.</tt> <er>Cooled</er> <tt>(?)</tt>; <tt>p.pr. & vb.n.</tt> <er>Cooling</er>.]</wordforms> <p><b>1.</b> <def>To make cool or cold; to reduce the temperature of; <as>as, ice <ex>cools</ex> water</as>.</def>

<blockquote>Send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and <b>cool</b> my tongue. <i>Luke xvi. 24.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To moderate the heat or excitement of; to allay, as passion of any kind; to calm; to moderate.</def>

<blockquote>We have reason to <b>cool</b> our raging motions, our carnal stings, our unbitted lusts. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<cs><col>To cool the heels</col>, <cd>to dance attendance; to wait, as for admission to a patron's house. <mark>[Colloq.]</mark></cd></cs>

<i>Dryden.</i>

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<hw>Cool</hw>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>To become less hot; to lose heat.</def>

<blockquote>I saw a smith stand with his hammer, thus, the whilst his iron did on the anvil <b>cool</b>. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To lose the heat of excitement or passion; to become more moderate.</def>

<blockquote>I will not give myself liberty to think, lest I should <b>cool</b>. <i>Congreve.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Cooler</h1> <Xpage=319>

<hw>Cool"er</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>That which cools, or abates heat or excitement.</def>

<blockquote>if acid things were used only as <b>coolers</b>, they would not be so proper in this case. <i>Arbuthnot.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Anything in or by which liquids or other things are cooled, as an ice chest, a vessel for ice water, etc.</def>

<h1>Cool-headed</h1> <Xpage=319>

<hw>Cool"-head`ed</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Having a temper not easily excited; free from passion.</def> -- <wordforms><wf>Cool"-head`ed*ness</wf>, <tt>n.</tt></wordforms>

<h1>Coolie</h1> <Xpage=319>