The proper adjective expressing a well-known quality of the air or of other substances exciting one of… of the atmosphere, and meteoric conditions.

Of the sea, wind, etc.: Raging, rough, fierce, stormy: an attribute of winter, taken from Lydgate by Spenser, and echoed from Spenser by later…

‘Cold; cold to the touch’ (Johnson); now always unpleasantly, depressingly, or injuriously cold; that chills, tends to benumb, or causes to shiver.

Sonorous, resonant, shrill.

Cold, chilly; usually of wind or weather.

Of weather: cold; windy, bracing. Canadian regional (Newfoundland).

Esp. of the weather: cold, chilly.

Of the weather: chilly, cold.

colloquial. U.S. Designating weather characteristic of a cold snap (snap, n. 7a 2b).

Of the weather: chilly, cold.