单词 | cool |
释义 | cooln.1 1. A cool breeze, a light and refreshing wind. Also cool of wind. Now chiefly Irish English. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > wind > [noun] > cold or cool wind > cool, refreshing wind coola1393 a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) v. l. 3119 The wynd stod thanne noght amis, Bot evene topseil cole it blew. 1511 Pylgrymage Richarde Guylforde (Pynson) f. lij The wynde began to blowe a ryght good Coole in oure waye. 1530 tr. Caesar Commentaryes iii. 4 That he had a good and convenable time and also a good cole. 1558 T. Phaer tr. Virgil Seuen First Bks. Eneidos iii A mery coole of wynde them fast pursueth. 1594 J. Dickenson Arisbas sig. E 4 It is he [sc. Zephyrus] which for thy sake hath oft..comforted thee with a pleasing coole in extreame heate, to relieue thy faintnesse. 1996 T. P. Dolan & D. Ó Muirithe Dial. Forth & Bargy 24 Cool, a very light wind. 2003 J. Kiely Heat not Furnace viii. 199 A mist swept in from the south west bringing a very lively cool of wind with it. 2. a. With the. The cool part or quality of a place, thing, or (esp.) time of day. Frequently with of. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > coldness > [noun] > coolness > that which is cool coolc1450 c1450 (?a1400) Wars Alexander (Ashm.) l. 5534 To see quat selcuthe is seet in þe salt watir, How many kind of creatours þat in þe cole duellis. a1500 (?c1450) Merlin 191 (MED) As they that wolde ride in the cole of the mornynge. c1515 Ld. Berners tr. Bk. Duke Huon of Burdeux (1882–7) lxvi. 227 It were good for us to aryse..it is good to ryde in the coole. 1530 Bible (Tyndale) Gen. iii. f. iiij They herd the voyce of the Lorde God as he walked in the garden in the coole of the daye. 1587 A. Day tr. J. Amyot Longus's Daphnis & Chloe sig. A4 How to driue their beasts to pasturing before the heat of the daie, and in the coole of the euening againe howe to guide them. 1655 W. Sales Theophania i. 17 She was departed early, to enjoy the cool of the morning. a1689 A. Behn Widdow Ranter (1690) i. iii. 10 [I]'le not go till the Cool of the Evening, I love to ride in Fresco. 1713 J. Addison Cato iii But see where Lucia..Amid the cool of yon high marble arch, Enjoys the noon-day breeze! 1787 J. Byng Diary 10 Aug. in Torrington Diaries (1934) I. 312 I kept on, thinking it then better to push forward, in the cool of the morning, without stopping. 1863 J. W. Carlyle Lett. III. 171 He..goes for his ride in the cool of the evening. 1879 R. Browning Pheidippides 64 There in the cool of a cleft, sat he—majestical Pan! 1919 M. Sinclair Mary Olivier ii. vii. 61 Papa walked in the garden in the cool of the evening, like the Lord God. 1941 D. C. Peattie Road of Naturalist ii. 14 Resting..I would lie on my back in the adobe room, on the cool of the tiles. 2002 Church Times 14 June 16/2 In the cool of the short nave, now a chapel dedicated to the Border Regiment, old battles beflagged the walls. b. Coolness; cool conditions; an instance of this. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > coldness > [noun] > coolness coolnessOE refroidourc1475 coola1500 coolth1547 frescour1638 swalec1700 a1500 in R. H. Robbins Secular Lyrics 14th & 15th Cent. (1952) 56 (MED) A pilion or taberd to wer in hete or cole. 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Prov. xxv. B Like as the wynter coole in the haruest. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost ix. 1109 There oft the Indian Herdsman shunning heate Shelters in coole . View more context for this quotation 1724 T. Cooke tr. Bion in tr. Moschus & Bion Idylliums 89 There's nothing, Cleodamus, like the Spring;..When nothing is unpleasant in our Way; But pure refreshing Cool, both Night and Day. 1799 C. B. Brown Edgar Huntly III. xxi. 29 I could float for hours on the surface, enjoying its [sc. water's] delicious cool, almost without the expense of the slightest motion. 1860 T. Martin tr. Horace Odes 133 Thou a grateful cool dost yield To the flocks that range afield. 1905 Westm. Gaz. 10 Nov. 2/1 He woke with a roaring of many waters in his ears, and a sense of curious cool in all his limbs. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > manner of action > lack of violence, severity, or intensity > [noun] neshnesseOE measurea1393 temperateness1398 lightness?a1425 moderation?a1425 cool1562 mildness1605 weakness1707 1562 A. Brooke tr. M. Bandello Tragicall Hist. Romeus & Iuliet f. 4v Thou shalt quite forget thy loue, and passions past of olde... Now with healthy coole ytempred is the heate. 1575 E. Hake Commemoration Raigne Lady Elizabeth sig. Cv The coole of grace flowed ouer ye realme. 1612 Bp. J. Hall Contempl. I. ii. viii. 395 God loues to giue vs cooles, & heats in our desires. 1650 W. Brough Sacred Princ. 291 Men of Intemperate Heats and Cooles in Religion. 1727 A. Pope et al. Περι Βαθους: Art of Sinking ix. 42 in J. Swift et al. Misc.: Last Vol. To treat..of the Emollients and Opiats of Poesy, of the Cool, and the manner of producing it. 4. Originally U.S. A type of jazz music characterized by a restrained or relaxed style; cool jazz. Cf. cool adj. 2e. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > type of music > jazz > [noun] > types of rooty-toot1852 soul music1920 Chicago1923 gutbucket1925 symphonic jazz1926 Dixieland1927 jive1928 white jazz1931 Harlem1934 jump1937 New Orleans1938 free jazz1941 progressive jazz1944 bebop1945 gypsy swing1945 modern jazz1946 bop1948 new jazz1949 cool1952 Afro-jazz1954 funk1954 gypsy jazz1955 trad jazz1955 trad1956 whorehouse music1956 new thing1962 fusion1965 1949 M. Davis et al. (title of album) Birth of the Cool.] 1952 Sat. Rev. (U.S.) 29 Mar. 20/2 Some of the clearest exposition this reader has yet encountered of the whys, hows and wherefores of the jazz music known as ‘progressive’, ‘bop’, and ‘cool’. 1963 A. Baraka Blues People xii. 207 In many ways cool was a legitimate style of jazz music. 2006 J. Gennari Blowin' Hot & Cool v. 207 A stylistic panoply ranging from prewar Dixieland and swing to postwar bop and cool. 5. a. U.S. slang. A truce between gangs. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > dissent > absence of dissension or peace > [noun] > cessation from hostile proceedings truce1377 recess1516 truce1560 armistice1736 pax1843 cool1958 1958 Daily Tel. 8 Apr. 11/8 Cool, an uneasy armistice between child-gangs. 1959 H. E. Salisbury Shook-up Generation iii. 47 A ‘cool’ was negotiated by street club workers. But it was an uneasy truce, often broken. 1993 NPR: All Things Considered (transcript of radio programme) (Nexis) 12 Apr. We have the gang-bangers and their leaders of the truce who are working with us to effect a cool. b. slang (originally U.S.). Composure, relaxedness; poise, self-control. Esp. in to keep (also blow, lose) one's cool. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > excitement > nervous excitement > be in state of nervous excitement [verb (intransitive)] to take ona1450 seethe1609 trepidate1623 to take on oneself1632 flutter1668 pother1715 to be upon the nettle (also in a nettle)1723 to be nerve all over1778 to be all nerve1819 to be (all) on wires1824 to break up1825 to carry on1828 to be on (occasionally upon or on the) edge1872 faff1874 to have kittens1900 flap1910 to be in, get in(to), a flap1939 to go sparec1942 to keep (also blow, lose) one's cool1964 faffle1965 to get one's knickers in a twist1971 to have a canary1971 to wet one's pants1979 tweak1981 the mind > emotion > calmness > self-possession or self-control > [noun] repressiona1413 governailc1425 willc1480 self-rule1532 coldness1548 stay1556 presentness of mind1598 coolness1607 cold blooda1609 temper1611 self-discipline1612 retention?1615 presence of mind?1624 self-governance1630 retentiveness1641 self-command1651 self-mastery1652 self-control1653 self-direction1653 self-restraint1656 self-possession1665 possessednessa1698 self-regulation1698 possession1703 retenue1747 sang-froid1750 self-collection1761 render1768 self-collectedness1805 self-repression1821 self-containedness1835 unimpulsiveness1860 cool-headedness1881 sophrosyne1889 cool1964 the mind > emotion > calmness > self-possession or self-control > maintain self-control [verb (intransitive)] to keep one's countenance1470 to get above ——1603 to keep one's head1717 keep your shirt on1844 to keep one's hair on1883 to keep one's wool1890 not to bat an eye, eyelid1904 to keep one's pants on1928 to play it cool1955 to keep (also blow, lose) one's cool1964 the mind > emotion > anger > [verb (intransitive)] > become angry wrethec900 wrothc975 abelghec1300 to move one's blood (also mood)c1330 to peck moodc1330 gremec1460 to take firea1513 fumec1522 sourdc1540 spitec1560 to set up the heckle1601 fire1604 exasperate1659 to fire up1779 to flash up1822 to get one's dander up1831 to fly (occasionally jump, etc.) off (at) the handle1832 to have (also get) one's monkey up1833 to cut up rough, rusty, savage1837 rile1837 to go off the handle1839 to flare up1840 to set one's back up1845 to run hot1855 to wax up1859 to get one's rag out1862 blow1871 to get (also have) the pricker1871 to turn up rough1872 to get the needle1874 to blaze up1878 to get wet1898 spunk1898 to see red1901 to go crook1911 to get ignorant1913 to hit the ceiling1914 to hit the roof1921 to blow one's top1928 to lose one's rag1928 to lose one's haira1930 to go up in smoke1933 hackle1935 to have, get a cob on1937 to pop (also blow) one's cork1938 to go hostile1941 to go sparec1942 to do one's bun1944 to lose one's wool1944 to blow one's stack1947 to go (also do) one's (also a) dingerc1950 rear1953 to get on ignorant1956 to go through the roof1958 to keep (also blow, lose) one's cool1964 to lose ita1969 to blow a gasket1975 to throw a wobbler1985 1964 Times Record (Troy, N.Y.) 28 Feb. 21/2 Sonny just went to pieces. He lost his cool. 1966 New Yorker 18 June 37 I'll bet that old guy has never blown his cool. 1967 Listener 19 Jan. 101/2 Professor Marcus consistently keeps his cool when sex is being discussed; all the four-letter words are used without blanching. 1970 New Yorker 14 May 34/1 It was beautiful to go through the world like this in childlike cool. 1982 S. Bellow Dean's Daughter x. 196 I made a particular effort now to recover my interviewer's detachment or professional cool. 1996 Just Seventeen 14 Aug. 58/5 Keep your cool, don't give them the mouthful they deserve else things could get nasty. 2004 Times Lit. Suppl. 17 Dec. 8/3 Finally, someone lost his cool. 6. colloquial (originally U.S.). The quality or condition of being cool (cool adj. 8); hipness, stylishness. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > fashionableness > [noun] fashionableness1640 à-la-modeness1669 modishness1676 à la modality1753 tonishness1780 style1807 stylishnessa1817 fashionability1840 swellishness1863 hep1899 hipness1937 coolness1951 hip1956 cool1962 hipdom1962 with-it-ness1963 funkiness1974 1962 S. Sullivan Shortest Gladdest Years 90 It was the final unqualified quintessence of Cool. 1970 Globe Mag. (Toronto) 26 Sept. 21 He walks along the planked boardwalk,..and he looks at nothing, just ahead as he concentrates on his cool. 1989 Car & Driver Oct. 3/3 When's the last time you saw anyone with an ounce of cool talking on a CB radio? 2005 Olive July 101/2 This is the height of cool, with a long zinc bar down one side,..and a noisy, fun dining space. Compounds cool hunter n. a person who makes observations or predictions about new styles and trends; a trendspotter. ΚΠ 1997 New Yorker 17 Mar. 84/3 The company's coolhunters go out into the field with prototypes of the upcoming shoes to find out what the kids really like. 2003 S. Brown Free Gift Inside! 52 A wonderful parody of the marketing industry, with its cool hunters, street scouts, and preposterous self-importance. 2007 Business Week Online (Nexis) 17 Aug. It began with the cool hunters and early adopters telling everyone this would be the next big thing. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022). cooln.2 Chiefly Irish English. Now rare. A measure of butter varying in amount, but usually of about 40 lb (approx. 18 kg). Also: a container for storing butter. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > container for food > [noun] > container for butter butter-kit1567 butter barrel1608 butterbox1614 cool1792 1792 Trials at Large: On Prosecutions for Crown (City & County of Dublin) I. 11 One Patrick Keogh had bought a cool of butter in the morning at 6hd. per pound. 1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products 104 Cool, a tub cut in two, in which butter is sometimes sent to market..it weighs from ½ cwt. to 1 cwt. 1891 Daily News 27 Oct. 2/8 (Trade Report) Butter.—Cork. Prices show another advance..Fine mild-cured and fine cools advanced 1s. 1910 P. W. Joyce Eng. in Ireland xiii. 239 Cool, a good-sized roll of butter. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online June 2022). cooladj.adv.int. A. adj. 1. a. Of or at a relatively low temperature; moderately cold, esp. agreeably or refreshingly so (in contrast with heat or cold).In early use not always distinguished from cold. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > cold weather > [adjective] > cool cooleOE the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > coldness > [adjective] > cool cooleOE fresh?a1425 cooly1566 feverless1662 eOE Metres of Boethius v. 13 Swa oft æspringe ut awealleð of clife harum col and hlutor. eOE Leechbk. (Royal) (1865) iii. xxvi. 324 Wyl siþþan on buteran.., do on blede..& hrer mid sticcan oþ þæt hit col sie. OE Vercelli Homilies (1992) i. 18 Þa stodon hie..þær æt þam fyre & wyrmdon hie; wæs þæt weder wel col [OE Bodl. 340 wæs þæt weder ceald; L. frigus erat]. a1300 Vision St. Paul (Jesus Oxf.) l. 82 in R. Morris Old Eng. Misc. (1872) 149 Þat fule pool Þat euer is hot, and neuer cool. c1400 (?c1380) Patience l. 452 Al schet in a schaȝe þat schaded ful cole. ?a1475 Promptorium Parvulorum (Winch.) (1908) 90 Cole or sumwhat cold. 1535 W. Stewart tr. H. Boethius Bk. Cron. Scotl. (1858) II. 202 In mid winter quhen that the wedder is cuill. 1598 W. Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost v. ii. 89 Vnder the coole shade of a Siccamone. 1624 J. Smith Gen. Hist. Virginia ii. 21 The Northwest winde is commonly coole. a1650 G. Boate Irelands Nat. Hist. (1652) vii. 54 The water of these Well-springs is for the most part cool, clear, and pure. 1722 D. Defoe Jrnl. Plague Year 6 The Weather was temperate, variable and cool enough. 1776 Trial Maha Rajah Nundocomar for Forgery 32/2 He was then in a cool sweat, with a low pulse. 1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps i. xxv. 177 We were in the cool shadow of the mountain. 1881 D. G. Rossetti Ballads & Sonnets 293 O leave your hand where it lies cool Upon the eyes whose lids are hot. 1935 E. Bowen House in Paris ii. viii. 171 It was summer; cool in the house but glaring hot in the streets. 1981 G. Vidal Creation i. ii. 9 The day is cool but not cold. 1992 Flora Internat. Mar. 14 Place in water in a cool place for a few hours. b. figurative and in figurative contexts. ΚΠ 1597 T. Middleton Wisdome of Solomon Paraphr. xii. sig. Pv If hot anger smother coole delight, Hee'le mould our bodies in destructions forme, And make our selues as subiects to his might. 1604 W. Shakespeare Hamlet iii. iv. 115 Vpon the heat and flame of thy distemper Sprinckle coole patience. View more context for this quotation a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry V (1623) iii. iii. 113 The coole and temperate Wind of Grace. View more context for this quotation 1737 A. Pope Epist. of Horace i. i. 9 Our Gen'rals now, retir'd to their Estates, Hang their old Trophies o'er the Garden gates, In Life's cool evening satiate of applause. 1751 T. Gray Elegy xix. 9 Along the cool sequester'd vale of life. 1767 W. Hanbury Hist. Rise Charitable Found. Church-Langton 108 The country, seeing the cool water thrown on it [sc. a scheme]. 1838 J. Gillman Life S. T. Coleridge ii. 67 The lecturer [sc. Coleridge]..addressed them as follows:..‘What is to be expected, gentlemen, when the cool waters of reason come in contact with red hot aristocracy but a hiss?’ 1940 ‘N. West’ Untitled Outl. in Novels & Other Writings (1997) 759 The woman who had come along to lead them out of the lush patches of yellow reporting into the cool, green fields of the purer but arid desert of the higher journalism. 1991 R. Chambers Room for Maneuver 249 A certain primitivism that needs to be tempered by a return to the cooler climes of theory. c. Of clothing, fabric, etc.: that produces a sensation of coolness, that keeps a person cool; that does not admit or retain heat. ΚΠ 1614 T. Adams Diuells Banket v. 234 Our will desires in the Summer a lighter and cooler garment, in Winter a thicker and warmer. 1671 tr. J. de Palafox y Mendoza Hist. Conquest of China by Tartars xxxii. 569 When they shall have more experienced..the heats in the Southern Provinces, they will proportionably wear cooler Clothes. 1745 R. Pococke Descr. East II. i. iv. viii. 266 The boors..in summer are always clothed in white,..imagining that white is a cool dress. 1774 E. Long Hist. Jamaica II. iii. vi. 523 Nothing is more likely to subject a person to catch cold, and a fit of sickness, than a sudden change from an habitual light and cool dress, to one twice as hot. 1858 D. Lardner Hand-bk. Nat. Philos.: Hydrostatics, Pneumatics, & Heat (new ed.) 374 The helmet and cuirass worn by cavalry is a cooler dress than might be imagined, the polished metal being a good reflector of heat. 1864 E. Sargent Peculiar xxix. 283 Ratcliff entered, habited in a cool suit of grass-cloth. 1907 Times 28 May 10/1 (advt.) The great array of cool fabrics issued for day-time wear. 1932 ‘B. Ross’ Trag. of Y i. ii. 50 He was dressed in a cool linen shirt. 2002 Manch. Evening News (Nexis) 1 June 12 His wife likes a thick duvet and soft mattress, while he prefers cooler bedding and a firm mattress. d. Medicine. Of medicine, treatment, etc.: that lowers the temperature (of the blood, body, etc.); cooling. Cf. cool v.1 3b. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > cooling treatment > [adjective] refrigerativec1475 refrigerating1583 refrigerant1599 cool1614 1614 S. Latham Falconry ii. xii. 100 Contrariwise ouer much heat in it self, may be the cause of that weaknesse [sc. in a hawk's stomach]... You must of necessity coole it with some coole thing that is meet for it. 1793 T. Beddoes Observ. Nature & Cure Calculus 151 The cool treatment of small pox. 1857 T. D. Mitchell in J. Eberle Treat. Dis. & Physical Educ. Children (ed. 4) ii. xxxvi. 442 In all cases [of measles], save those in which the powers of life are rapidly waning, the cool treatment is decidedly more rational and safe. 1981 Social Sci. & Med. 15 137/2 Folk illnesses such as ‘fright’..are also hot conditions which are met with cool remedies. 2005 New Eng. Jrnl. Med. 353 1619 (title) Systemic hypothermia—a ‘cool’ therapy for neonatal hypoxic–ischemic encephalopathy. 2. a. Of a person or a personal attribute, quality, etc.: not affected by passion or emotion, dispassionate; controlled, deliberate, not hasty; calm, composed.cool as a cucumber: see cucumber n. 2b. to play it cool: see play v. 17e. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > calmness > [adjective] > of appearance or demeanour coolOE sobera1375 composed1606 serene1702 mooth1782 poised1912 centred1973 the mind > emotion > calmness > self-possession or self-control > [adjective] coolc1430 coldc1500 within oneself (itself, etc.)1518 cool-headed1684 present to oneself1692 possesseda1698 self-restrained1700 self-collecteda1711 cool (cold) as a cucumbera1732 self-possessing1732 self-regulating1755 cool-brained1765 self-possessed1766 self-restraining1777 self-disciplined?1791 self-controlling1796 self-repressed1814 self-controlled1822 self-contained1838 self-repressing1849 unimpulsive1856 posé1858 downbeat1953 cucumber-cool1955 supercool1965 the mind > emotion > calmness > [adjective] eveneOE still1340 unperturbeda1450 unmovedc1480 quietful1494 lowna1500 calma1568 calmya1586 unpassionatea1586 smartless1593 reposeful1594 dispassionate1595 recollected1595 unaffectedc1595 unpassioned?1605 unpassionated1611 collecteda1616 tranquila1616 untouched1616 impassionate1621 composed1628 dispassioneda1631 tranquillous1638 slow1639 serene1640 dispassionated1647 imperturbed1652 unruffled1654 reposing1655 equanimous1656 perplacid1660 placate1662 equal1680 collect1682 cooled1682 posed1693 sedate1693 impassive1699 uninflamed1714 unexcited1735 unalarmed1756 unfanned1764 unagitated1772 undistraught1773 recollected1792 equable1796 unfussy1823 take-it-easy1825 unflurried1854 cool1855 comfortable1856 disimpassioned1860 tremorless1869 unpressured1879 unrippled1883 ice-cool1891 unrattled1891 Zen-likea1908 unrestless1919 steadyish1924 ataractic1941 relaxed1958 nonplussed1960 loose1968 Zenned-out1968 downtempo1972 mellowed1977 de-stressed1999 OE Beowulf 282 Gyf him [sc. Hroðgar] edwendan æfre scolde bealuwa bisigu bot eft cuman, ond þa cearwylmas colran wurðaþ. c1430 (c1386) G. Chaucer Legend Good Women (Cambr. Gg.4.27) (1879) l. 258 Thow..thynkist in thyn wit that is ful cole That he nys but a verray propre fole That louyth paramouris to harde & hote. 1570 P. Levens Manipulus Vocabulorum sig. Niiiv/1 Coole, quietus. 1600 W. Shakespeare Midsummer Night's Dream v. i. 6 Such seething braines..that apprehend more, Then coole reason euer comprehends. View more context for this quotation 1611 Bible (King James) Prov. xvii. 27 A man of vnderstanding is of an excellent spirit. [Marginal note] Or, a coole spirit. View more context for this quotation 1679 W. Penn Addr. Protestants i. ix, in Wks. (1825) III. 39 A descreet and cool hand may direct the blow right..when men of fury rather ease their passion, than mend their youth. 1736 Bp. J. Butler Analogy of Relig. ii. vii. 270 Some of them were Men of the coolest Tempers. 1781 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall (1787) III. xxx. 167 (note) The bloody actor is less detestable than the cool unfeeling historian. 1839 T. Beale Nat. Hist. Sperm Whale xiii. 164 The line is running through the groove at the head of the boat..the headsman, cool and collected, pours water upon it as it passes. 1855 Ld. Tennyson Maud xxii. i, in Maud & Other Poems 74 While she wept, and I strove to be cool. 1890 C. King Sunset Pass 56 Don't get stampeded. Just keep cool; watch and listen. 1938 Los Angeles Times 11 Jan. a14/2 The yips and a turn of jittery nerves were suddenly turned into a cool head and a stout heart. 1992 W. Horwood Duncton Rising xxv. 335 The Master Stour, now cool, calm, and collected, smiled benignly. 2002 N. Lebrecht Song of Names ii. 35 He can still unsettle me like nothing on earth. This cannot continue: get a grip, stay cool. b. spec. Of the blood, as the seat of a person's emotions or passions (cf. blood n. 11). Frequently in in cool blood: without excitement; (esp. with reference to violent or cruel action) not in the heat of passion, with calm deliberation; = in cold blood at cold blood n.In quot. OE: lacking potency. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > absence of emotion > [adverb] > cold-bloodedly in cool bloodOE cold-bloodedly1838 OE Sedulius Glosses (Royal 15 B.xix) in H. D. Meritt Old Eng. Glosses (1945) 38 Frigidus col [L. prolemque negebat frigidus annoso moriens in corpore sanguis]. a1500 Consail & Teiching Vys Man (Cambr. Kk.1.5) in R. Girvan Ratis Raving & Other Early Scots Poems (1939) 77 Weng [= venge] nocht quhil thi blud be cule. 1606 J. Marston Parasitaster i. i. sig. A4 How cooler bloud wil behaue it selfe in this busines, would I haue an only testimony. 1607 R. C. tr. H. Estienne World of Wonders i. xxv. 203 Blasphemies vttered in coole bloud without choler, passion or heate of affection. a1616 W. Shakespeare Cymbeline (1623) v. vi. 77 We should not when the blood was cool, haue threatend Our Prisoners with the Sword. View more context for this quotation 1658 Whole Duty of Man (1684) 86 That without any provocation at all, in cool bloud, as they say, they can thus wrong their poor brethren. 1720 D. Defoe Mem. Cavalier 229 Those very Wretches who..with unheard of Butcheries, had massacred so many Thousands of English in cool Blood. 1768 J. Wesley Let. Dec. (1931) V. 377 Notwithstanding all the tragical exclamations which have been made concerning it, what is this to the killing a man in cool blood? 1838 J. H. Ingraham Burton II. ii. 33 General Washington..has a good deal of the lion's irritability.., and your own blood is not over cool. 1881 Mrs. P. O'Donoghue Ladies on Horseback ii. v. 72 No horse that ever was foaled could do it [sc. a big leap] in cool blood. 1903 Times 22 Sept. 9/1 When it is considered in cool blood it must be admitted..not to constitute in any sense an attack upon the present political régime. 1915 T. Roosevelt Amer. & World War ii. 26 The rights and wrongs of these cases where nations violate the rules of morality..can be precisely determined only when all the facts are known and when men's blood is cool. 1988 Polity 20 685 The murder in cool blood of whole political classes which Machiavelli seems to admire. c. Of a thing or action: characterized by or exhibiting calmness, composure, or a lack of passionate emotion. ΚΠ 1592 A. Day 2nd Pt. Eng. Secretorie sig. O3v, in Eng. Secretorie (rev. ed.) In coole matters thou art hotte: in the hottest causes, cold. 1646 R. Crashaw Musicks Duell in Steps to Temple 106 Shee qualifies their zeale With the coole Epode of a grave Noat. 1663 J. Spencer Disc. Prodigies (1665) 22 When fear hath..disabled the mind for a cool and sedate judgment and valuation of things. 1717 Lady M. W. Montagu Let. 16 Jan. (1965) I. 296 Upon cooler refflexion, I think I had done better to have let it alone. 1788 T. Reid Ess. Active Powers Man (1803) iii. ii. i. 159 Some cool principle of action, which has authority without any impulsive force. 1798 Capt. Miller in Ld. Nelson Dispatches & Lett. (1846) VII. p. clviii I caused a cool and steady fire to be opened on them. 1850 F. W. Robertson Serm. (1866) 1st Ser. xvi. 266 These words fall short: they are too tame and cool. 1883 American 6 41/2 To the ‘pornial fire’ of the Elizabethan period had succeeded an age of patient research and cool criticism. 1917 F. H. Simonds Hist. World War I. i. vi. 116 The battle was not the sudden rally of..hundreds of thousands of soldiers. It was the result of a clear, cool, and deliberate plan. 1988 Australasian Post (Melbourne) 9 Apr. 10/1 She was the bouncer at the Waikato, a tavern described as being wild... Anne..managed to keep the whole place cool. d. Of a person, an action, or a person's behaviour: assured and unabashed where diffidence and hesitation would be expected; composedly and deliberately audacious or impudent in making a proposal, demand, or assumption. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pride > impudence > [adjective] > shameless shamelessc897 unshamefasta1100 unshamedc1384 unshamefulc1430 unshamousa1500 unshamefaceda1533 unshameless1555 blushless1566 brazen-faced1571 brazen1573 bashless1578 brassy1596 foreheaded16.. foreheadlessa1603 frontless1607 browless1615 basilisco-proof1649 inverecund1657 perfrict1660 brazen-broweda1682 barefaced1704 cool1723 unblushing1736 brassed1742 inerubescent1788 bald-faced1836 bronzed1841 brazen-fronted1842 brazed1884 1723 A. Hill King Henry V iv. i. 39 Look back on all this dreadfull Pile of Baseness,..and then, In the cool Insolence of Pride, and Majesty, Ask me again—if I can wish Thee dead? 1787 G. Colman Prose Several Occasions II. 44 Considering Mr. L. is but a common acquaintance,..I never saw a more consummate piece of assurance. The cool impudence of it startled me at first. 1825 C. M. Westmacott Eng. Spy I. 80 A right cool fish. 1873 W. Black Princess of Thule xxiv. 394 He certainly knew that such a request was a trifle cool. 1874 J. P. Mahaffy Social Life Greece viii. 256 The cool way in which Plato in his Republic speaks of exposing children. 1926 S. Anderson Tar vi. 142 Henry would walk right out and take it as cool as you please. 1988 M. Sendak Caldecott & Co. (1989) i. 140 Mr Yorinks has the cool audacity to mix absolute nonsense with cockeyed fact. 2005 D. Arscott Maracas in Caracas 9 Then I find a good half of my contracts are being siphoned off into the new Jeavons venture. Cool as you like. e. Originally U.S. Of jazz music: restrained or relaxed in style (opposed to hot adj. 12h). Also: performing or associated with music of this type. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > type of music > jazz > [adjective] > types of Chicagoan1861 bad1897 hot1918 red-hot1918 soft1921 low-down1922 sweet1924 barrel-house1926 New Orleans1926 straight1926 crazy1927 dirty1927 hotcha1930 jungle1935 solid1935 traditional jazz1935 powerhouse1937 gutty1939 riffy1939 jivey1944 Kansas City1946 cool1948 West Coast1949 far-out1954 nutty1955 swinging1955 mainstream1957 Afro-Latin1958 1948 Bridgeport (Connecticut) Telegram 13 July 9/1 Hot jazz is dead. Long live cool jazz!.. The old-school jazz created a tension, where the new jazz tries to convey a feeling of rhythmic relaxation. 1955 L. Feather Encycl. Jazz (1956) 30 Cool jazz to most musicians and students denotes the understated, behind-the-beat style typified by the arrangements and soloists on the Davis records. 1957 H. Panassié in S. Traill Concerning Jazz 61 The ‘cool’ musicians..stopped using the traditional jazz technique and tone. 1963 A. Baraka Blues People xii. 207 Obvious innovators and masters who might not be ordinarily identified as members of the ‘cool school’. 1992 Jazz No. 12. 10/1 [The] band was exploring its cool, dark Miles vibe. 2002 List (Glasgow & Edinb. Events Guide) 4 July 65/3 (advt.) Tenor saxman Redman invests his cool jazz sounds with hip hop and funk influences. 3. a. Lacking in fervour or zeal, unenthusiastic; lacking heartiness or warmth of interest. Cf. cold adj. 7a, lukewarm adj. 2. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > absence of emotion > [adjective] > lukewarm or lacking enthusiasm coolOE luke1340 tepid1513 lukewarmc1522 unearnest1542 spiritless1566 zeallessa1594 faint1596 unfiery1598 tepidous1607 Laodicean1633 heartless1636 unzealous1643 slight1660 unenthusiastic1805 teporous1821 coolish1850 ice-cool1891 demotivated1963 meh2007 OE Beowulf (2008) 2066 [Syð]ðan Ingelde weallað wælniðas, ond him wiflufan æfter cearwælmum colran weorðað. 1592 T. Rogers tr. Thomas à Kempis Soliloquium Animae vii. 46 I was not zealous enough in my proceeding, I did not encrease in zeale, but, which is woorser, I waxed cooler and cooler. 1631 Bp. J. Hall Occas. Medit. (ed. 2) (2nd state) §cxxxviii Oh give me a true sense of my wants, and then I cannot bee coole in asking. 1710 R. Steele Tatler No. 192. ⁋2 Sometimes the Parties..grow cool in the very Honey Month. 1743 H. Fielding Journey from This World to Next xix. vii. 244 My Imagination, which had thus warmly pursued a Crown, grew cool when I was in the possession of it. 1765 D. Garrick Let. 10 Mar. (1963) II. 449 Do the Town in general really wish to see me on ye Stage? or are they..as cool about it as their humble Servant? 1815 Duke of Wellington Dispatches (1838) X. 169 The people are a little cool both at Vienna and in England in respect to the Bourbons. 1858 A. Trollope Dr. Thorne III. ii. 25 The zeal of the master waxed cool as that of the pupil waxed hot. 1874 J. S. Blackie On Self-culture 70 An honest hater is often a better fellow than a cool friend. 1915 Times 25 May 8/5 The idea of war with Italy left the Germans rather cool. 2003 Europe-Asia Stud. 55 422 The President seemed markedly cool about Sobyanin's candidature. b. Exhibiting or demonstrating a lack of warmth of affection; not cordial, unfriendly. Cf. cold adj. 8. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > absence of emotion > [adjective] > cold or lacking warm feeling winter-coldOE coldc1175 cheald1340 umbrous1483 key-colda1535 frosty1548 frostbitten1564 icy1567 wintry1579 cold-hearteda1616 unwarmeda1625 dry1637 cool1641 frigidal1651 frigid1658 thieveless1725 cool-hearted1748 wintry1748 chill1751 cold as charity1795 freezing1813 ice-cold1815 chilly1841 impersonal1846 pincé1858 ice-cool1891 touch-me-not-ish1895 marmorean1902 the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > discourtesy > [adjective] > not affable strange1338 estrangec1374 formal?1518 cold1557 squeamish1561 icy1567 buckrama1589 repulsive1598 starched1600 unaffable1603 stiff1608 withdrawing1611 reserved1612 aloof1639 cool1641 uncordial1643 inaffable1656 staunch1659 standfra1683 distant1710 starcha1716 distancing1749 pokerish1779 buckramed1793 angular1808 easeless1811 touch-me-not1817 starchy1824 standoffish1826 offish1827 poker-backed1830 standoff1837 stiffish1840 chilly1841 unapproachable1848 hedgehoggy1866 sticky1882 hard-to-get1899 stand-away1938 princesse lointaine1957 1641 Earl of Monmouth tr. G. F. Biondi Hist. Civil Warres Eng. I. ii. 97 The Dolphin who well weighed these alterations, grew somewhat coole towards his father in law [It. s'andaua raffredando co'l suocero]. 1675 in O. Airy Essex Papers (1890) I. 319 I found him at first cooler in his reception then when I left him. a1706 J. Vanbrugh Mistake i, in Wks. (1840) 442/1 Were I to meet a cool reception. 1751 E. Haywood Hist. Betsy Thoughtless IV. viii. 78 The cool reception he had given her sent her home in a very ill humour. 1800 E. Hervey Mourtray Family III. 77 I am rather upon cool terms with him. 1855 W. M. Thackeray Newcomes II. xxv. 237 But she did not care for Mrs. Clive, and the Colonel, somehow, grew cool towards us. 1924 P. G. Wodehouse Bill the Conqueror 31 For many months now this tendency to a cool formality on her part had irked Bill. 1997 T. Mackintosh-Smith Yemen (1999) iv. 90 His reception was cool, but he avoided any serious incident. ΚΠ 1669 A. Marvell Let. 2 Nov. in Poems & Lett. (1971) II. 261 I reckon they haue but a coole Patent of it: and I suppose should they bring it into Parlt it will prove not onely impossible there but ridiculous. a. Providing no comfort or encouragement; chilling. Cf. cold adj. 10. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > dejection > [adjective] > gloomy or depressing darkOE unmerryOE deathlyc1225 dolefulc1275 elengec1275 dreicha1300 coolc1350 cloudyc1374 sada1375 colda1400 deadlya1400 joylessc1400 unjoyful?c1400 disconsolatea1413 mournfula1425 funeralc1425 uncheerfulc1449 dolent1489 dolesome1533 heavy-hearted1555 glum1558 ungladsome1558 black1562 pleasureless1567 dern1570 plaintive?1570 glummish1573 cheerless1575 comfortless1576 wintry1579 glummy1580 funebral1581 discouraging1584 dernful?1591 murk1596 recomfortless1596 sullen1597 amating1600 lugubrious1601 dusky1602 sable1603 funebrial1604 damping1607 mortifying1611 tearful?1611 uncouth1611 dulsome1613 luctual1613 dismal1617 winterous1617 unked1620 mopish1621 godforsaken?1623 uncheerly1627 funebrious1630 lugubrous1632 drearisome1633 unheartsome1637 feral1641 drear1645 darksome1649 sadding1649 saddening1650 disheartening1654 funebrous1654 luctiferous1656 mestifical1656 tristifical1656 sooty1657 dreary1667 tenebrose1677 clouded1682 tragicala1700 funereal1707 gloomy1710 sepulchrala1711 dumpishc1717 bleaka1719 depressive1727 lugubre1727 muzzy1728 dispiriting1733 uncheery1760 unconsolatory1760 unjolly1764 Decemberly1765 sombre1768 uncouthie1768 depressing1772 unmirthful1782 sombrous1789 disanimating1791 Decemberish1793 grey1794 uncheering1796 ungenial1796 uncomforting1798 disencouraginga1806 stern1812 chilling1815 uncheered1817 dejecting1818 mopey1821 desponding1828 wisht1829 leadening1835 unsportful1837 demoralizing1840 Novemberish1840 frigid1844 morne1844 tragic1848 wet-blanketty1848 morgue1850 ungladdeneda1851 adusk1856 smileless1858 soul-sick1858 Novemberya1864 saturnine1863 down1873 lacklustre1883 Heaven-abandoneda1907 downbeat1952 doomy1967 c1350 (a1333) William of Shoreham Poems (1902) 102 Hys red was to coul Þat let man to suich meschyf. c1425 (c1300) Chron. Robert of Gloucester (Harl.) 131 Wat segge ȝe maistres..þat ȝeue þat cole [c1325 Calig. colde] red To bi nyme blod and my lyf. b. Lacking hope; dispirited, discouraged. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > dejection > [adjective] ungladc888 wearyc888 drearyc1000 dreary-moodOE heavyc1000 unmerryOE droopy?c1225 mournc1275 sada1300 languishinga1325 amayedc1330 matec1330 unlightc1330 unblissful1340 lowa1382 mishappyc1390 dullc1393 elengely1393 droopinga1400 heavy-hearteda1400 joylessa1400 sytefula1400 mornifc1400 tristy?c1400 lightless?1406 heartlessa1413 tristc1420 amatec1425 languoring?c1425 mirthlessc1430 heavisome1435 darkc1440 gloomingc1440 comfortlessc1460 amateda1470 chermatc1475 tristfula1492 lustless?1507 dolorous1513 ruthful1513 downcast1521 deject1528 heartsicka1529 lumpisha1535 coolc1540 dowlyc1540 glum1547 discouraged1548 uncheerfulc1555 dumpish1560 out of heart1565 sadded1566 amoped1573 tristive1578 desolated1580 dejected1581 à la mort1586 delightless1589 afflicted1590 gladless1590 groanful1590 gloomya1593 muddy1592 sitheful1592 cloudy1594 leaden-hearted1596 disconsolated1598 clum1599 life-weary1599 spiritless1600 dusky1602 chop-fallen1604 flat1604 disanimated1605 jaw-fallen1605 moped1606 chap-fallen1608 decheerful1608 uncheerful1612 lacklustrea1616 pulled1616 dumpya1618 depressed1621 head-hung1632 grum1640 downa1644 dispirited1647 down-at-mouth1649 down in (rarely of) the mouth1649 unhearted1650 sunlessa1658 sadful1658 unlightened1659 chagrin1665 saddened1665 damp1667 moping1674 desponding1688 tristitious1694 unenjoying1697 unraised1697 unheartya1699 unked1698 despondent1699 dismal1705 unjoyful1709 unrejoiced1714 dreara1717 disheartened1720 mumpish1721 unrejoicing1726 downhearted1742 out of spirits1745 chagrineda1754 low-spirited1753 sombrea1767 black-blooded1771 glumpy1780 oorie1787 sombrous1789 morose1791 Novemberish1793 glumpish1800 mopeful1800 die-away1802 blue-devilish1804 blue-devilled1807 malagrugrous1818 down in the hip1826 yonderly1828 sunshineless1831 downfaced1832 broody1851 in a (or the) trough1856 blue-devilly1871 drooped1873 glummy1884 pippy1886 humpy1889 pipped1914 lousy1933 pissed1943 crappy1956 doomy1961 bummed1970 c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 9255 Þen comford he caght in his cole hert. 5. a. Of a taste or smell: producing a sensation analogous to coolness of temperature; fresh, crisp; refreshing. Of food, drink, etc.: having such a taste. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > taste and flavour > [adjective] > applied to sensations of the tongue firish1568 cool1589 fieriness1675 coolish1768 1589 Summarie Drakes W. Indian Voy. 14 Within this white of the nut [sc. the coconut] lyeth a water,..which water and white rine before spoken of, are both of a very coole fresh taste. 1697 W. Dampier New Voy. around World xi. 314 It drinks brisk and cool. 1734 P. Shaw Enq. Scarborough Spaw-waters i. iv. 45 The Characteristicks of pure Nitre, or Salt-Petre... Its particular sharp, or penetrating, cool, and lightly bitterish taste. 1815 Miss Prickett Warwick Castle I. vii. 126 The cool scent of roses..appeared to revive him. 1826 P. G. Patmore Mirror of Months 194 The cool, crisp, and refreshing Nonsuch [apple],—eating, when at its best, like a glass of Apple-ice. 1847 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair (1848) iii. 20 ‘Try a chili with it, Miss Sharp,’ said Joseph, really interested. ‘A chili,’ said Rebecca, gasping. ‘Oh yes!’ She thought a chili was something cool, as its name imported. 1925 Woman's World (Chicago) Apr. 64/2 (advt.) Forhan's [toothpaste] is cool, antiseptic and pleasant to the taste. 1997 J. Fletcher Fresh from Farmers' Market 118 The clean, cool taste of the sliced [fennel] bulb. b. Of a colour, esp. a blue, green, or grey: suggestive of coolness. Cf. cold adj. 15, warm adj. 15a. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > quality of colour > [adjective] > cold cold1706 cool1758 cooling?1790 coldish1878 1758 R. Dossie Handmaid to Arts I. i. ii. 83 Verditer is, when good, a cool full blue, but without the least transparency either in oil or water. 1799 J. Hull Brit. Flora ii. 342 Acris,..Gills reddish buff, 4 in a set, branching, pileus cool brown, viscid, shining, oblique.., stalk whitish, shining, eccentric. 1845 Punch 7 June 247/1 The following terms are indispensable, and may be used pretty much at random:—‘Chiaroscuro’, ‘texture’, ‘pearly greys’, ‘foxy browns’, ‘cool greens’, ‘breadth’, ‘handling’, ‘medium’, ‘vehicle’. 1859 D. H. Jacques House 161 A cool gray..may be obtained as follows:..Raw umber, half a pound [etc.]. 1884 Cassell's Family Mag. Apr. 271/1 The beautiful cool grey-green of the silver wattle. 1936 Fortune Oct. 42/1 (advt.) The cool amber of a Martini, the deep glow of a Manhattan, the subtle satisfaction of a Side Car. 1991 Artist Nov. 23/3 He employs a restricted palette based on a division between warm and cool colours... The cool palette consists of French ultramarine, Prussian green, lamp black and titanium white. 6. Hunting. Of a scent or trail: not fresh or recent; faint, weak. Also in extended use. Cf. cold adj. 12a, warm adj. 5. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > hunting with hounds > [adjective] > of the scent cold1593 cool1647 1647 N. Bacon Hist. Disc. Govt. 253 Though..they lost ground and hunted upon a coole sent. 1822 A. T. de Vere Julian Apostate 32 It is in truth a cunning hound, and keen too; No nose like his to hunt a cool scent up. 1831 New Sporting Mag. Oct. 416/2 Those who ride well to them with a good scent, are indifferent about being forward with a cool one. 1893 A. Rives Athelwold v. ii. 87 Osw. Let this vext matter sleep. Ed. Thou know'st me not..when thou speak'st Of pausing here to let the scent grow cool. 1990 Times (Nexis) 5 Oct. The trail may have gone cool for New Model Army but Bob Dylan has lost the thread completely. 2001 R. Bass Colter xvi. 160 I walked briskly to keep up with Colter's [sc. a hunting dog's] bold casts. It was a beautiful, awe-provoking thing to see, the way he consumed that little forty [acre spur]: scouring it left to right—catching every molecule of cool scent. 7. colloquial. Used to emphasize the size of a quantity, originally and chiefly a sum of money. Only in attributive use.Originally preceded by a with hundred or thousand; subsequently also with any numeral (cf. a adj. 3b). N.E.D. (1893) suggests that the sense was ‘perhaps originally “deliberately or calmly counted, reckoned, or told”, and hence “all told”, “entire”, “whole”’. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > money > sum of money > [adjective] > large sum round1552 valuable1613 cool1721 megabuck1968 six-figure1971 mega-million1972 1721 C. Cibber Refusal i. 10 I owe Crop the Lender a Brace, and if I have a single Simon to pay him, rot me: But the queer Coll promises to advance me t'other three, and bring me home, provided you will let him sneak into your List for a cool Thousand. 1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones III. viii. xii. 263 He had lost a cool hundred, and would play no longer. View more context for this quotation 1771 T. Smollett Humphry Clinker II. 110 My table alone stands me in a cool thousand a quarter. 1844 B. Disraeli Coningsby II. iv. v. 54 Lord Monmouth had the satisfaction of drawing the Whig Minister at Naples into a cool thousand on the event. 1861 C. Dickens Great Expectations III. xviii. 303 She left that cool four thousand unto him. 1870 ‘W. Bradwood’ The O.V.H. 264 To save me a cool seven hundred a year. 1941 H. van Zeller Jeremias xiv. 137 Hanameel..got a cool seventeen shekels for a piece of land. 1958 Punch 27 Aug. 283/3 Some depressing Yank writer who takes a cool six hundred pages to chronicle the twenty-four-hour doings of a single character. 2007 Globe & Mail (Toronto) (Nexis) 22 Sept. r8 Last Christmas, he gave his parents..a cool million dollars, and $50,000 to each of his two sisters. 8. colloquial (originally U.S.). a. Attractively shrewd or clever; sophisticated, stylish, classy; fashionable, up to date; sexually attractive.The evidence indicates that this sense originated around the second decade of the 20th cent.; it is probably not exemplified by quot. 1884, in which the exact meaning of cool, from an article containing a list of undefined interjections (not all expressing approval) is uncertain; it could be a comment on a person's audacity (i.e. sense A. 2d). ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > fashionableness > [adjective] > fashion-conscious or following fashion fashion-monging1600 fashionable1609 fashionly1613 modish1652 mody1701 knowing1768 fadding1864 downtown1914 cool1918 fashion-conscious1951 switched-on1964 trendoid1979 fresh1984 kewl1990 1884 J. A. Harrison Negro Eng. in Anglia 7 257 Interjections... Dat's cool!] 1918 Bodleian Q. Rec. 2 152 A case, A lad, A head, A cool kid, all words for expressing admiration for another's cleverness or cunning. 1924 in M. Leadbitter & N. Slaven Blues Records (1968) 155 (title of song) Cool Kind Daddy Blues. 1947 C. Calloway et al. Hi-De-Ho Man (That's Me) (song MS) 2 Stay solid an' mellow a groovey cool fellow an' then you're gonna be sharp as me. 1949 F. Loesser Hamlet in R. Kimball & S. Nelson Compl. Lyrics F. Loesser (2003) 150/3 She was a cool put-together chick That made men thrill. But Hamlet, he thought She was from Uglyville. 1952 Herald-Press (St. Joseph, Mich.) 23 June 14 To be ‘cool’ is the desire of every teen-ager but the title of ‘book gook’ (book worm) is to be shunned. 1959 Observer 25 Oct. 29/8 They got long, sloppy haircuts and wide knot ties and no-press suits with fat lapels. Very cool. 1972 G. Lucas et al. Amer. Graffiti (film script) 33 (stage direct.) Terry continues to cruise the main drag, slouched low and looking cool in his newly acquired machine. 1990 M8 Dec. 63/2 I'm too cool to be suckered by the hype. 2000 Elle Sept. 329 For years, anything more than a slick of Vaseline or a brush of mascara was considered too try-hard to be cool. b. Originally in African-American usage: (as a general term of approval) admirable, excellent. Cf. hot adj. 12c.Popularized among jazz musicians and enthusiasts in the late 1940s; cf. sense A. 2e, cool cat n. at Compounds 2. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > quality of being good > excellence > [adjective] faireOE bremea1000 goodlyOE goodfulc1275 noblec1300 pricec1300 specialc1325 gentlec1330 fine?c1335 singulara1340 thrivena1350 thriven and throa1350 gaya1375 properc1380 before-passinga1382 daintiful1393 principala1398 gradelya1400 burlyc1400 daintyc1400 thrivingc1400 voundec1400 virtuousc1425 hathelc1440 curiousc1475 singlerc1500 beautiful1502 rare?a1534 gallant1539 eximious1547 jolly1548 egregious?c1550 jellyc1560 goodlike1562 brawc1565 of worth1576 brave?1577 surprising1580 finger-licking1584 admirablea1586 excellinga1586 ambrosial1598 sublimated1603 excellent1604 valiant1604 fabulous1609 pure1609 starryc1610 topgallant1613 lovely1614 soaringa1616 twanging1616 preclarent1623 primea1637 prestantious1638 splendid1644 sterling1647 licking1648 spankinga1666 rattling1690 tearing1693 famous1695 capital1713 yrare1737 pure and —1742 daisy1757 immense1762 elegant1764 super-extra1774 trimming1778 grand1781 gallows1789 budgeree1793 crack1793 dandy1794 first rate1799 smick-smack1802 severe1805 neat1806 swell1810 stamming1814 divine1818 great1818 slap-up1823 slapping1825 high-grade1826 supernacular1828 heavenly1831 jam-up1832 slick1833 rip-roaring1834 boss1836 lummy1838 flash1840 slap1840 tall1840 high-graded1841 awful1843 way up1843 exalting1844 hot1845 ripsnorting1846 clipping1848 stupendous1848 stunning1849 raving1850 shrewd1851 jammy1853 slashing1854 rip-staving1856 ripping1858 screaming1859 up to dick1863 nifty1865 premier cru1866 slap-bang1866 clinking1868 marvellous1868 rorty1868 terrific1871 spiffing1872 all wool and a yard wide1882 gorgeous1883 nailing1883 stellar1883 gaudy1884 fizzing1885 réussi1885 ding-dong1887 jim-dandy1888 extra-special1889 yum-yum1890 out of sight1891 outasight1893 smooth1893 corking1895 large1895 super1895 hot dog1896 to die for1898 yummy1899 deevy1900 peachy1900 hi1901 v.g.1901 v.h.c.1901 divvy1903 doozy1903 game ball1905 goodo1905 bosker1906 crackerjack1910 smashinga1911 jake1914 keen1914 posh1914 bobby-dazzling1915 juicy1916 pie on1916 jakeloo1919 snodger1919 whizz-bang1920 wicked1920 four-star1921 wow1921 Rolls-Royce1922 whizz-bang1922 wizard1922 barry1923 nummy1923 ripe1923 shrieking1926 crazy1927 righteous1930 marvy1932 cool1933 plenty1933 brahmaa1935 smoking1934 solid1935 mellow1936 groovy1937 tough1937 bottler1938 fantastic1938 readyc1938 ridge1938 super-duper1938 extraordinaire1940 rumpty1940 sharp1940 dodger1941 grouse1941 perfecto1941 pipperoo1945 real gone1946 bosting1947 supersonic1947 whizzo1948 neato1951 peachy-keen1951 ridgey-dite1953 ridgy-didge1953 top1953 whizzing1953 badass1955 wild1955 belting1956 magic1956 bitching1957 swinging1958 ridiculous1959 a treat1959 fab1961 bad-assed1962 uptight1962 diggish1963 cracker1964 marv1964 radical1964 bakgat1965 unreal1965 pearly1966 together1968 safe1970 bad1971 brilliant1971 fabby1971 schmick1972 butt-kicking1973 ripper1973 Tiffany1973 bodacious1976 rad1976 kif1978 awesome1979 death1979 killer1979 fly1980 shiok1980 stonking1980 brill1981 dope1981 to die1982 mint1982 epic1983 kicking1983 fabbo1984 mega1985 ill1986 posho1989 pukka1991 lovely jubbly1992 awesomesauce2001 nang2002 bess2006 amazeballs2009 boasty2009 daebak2009 beaut2013 1933 Z. N. Hurston in Story Aug. 63 And whut make it so cool, he got money 'cumulated. And womens give it all to 'im. 1950 Neurotica Autumn 46 This is a cool pad man. 1951 Newsweek 8 Oct. 28/3 If you like a guy or gal, they're cool. If they are real fat, real crazy, naturally they're real cool. 1957 Sunday Mail (Glasgow) 10 Feb. 11/6 Gone—the best, in the top rung, the coolest. 1970 R. Thorp & R. Blake Music of their Laughter 5/2 It never ran, but it was a cool car. 1980 A. Beattie Falling in Place (1981) vii. 73 These jeans are so cool. 2007 Hello! 17 July 64 But people were coming up and asking me for my number—and asking if I wanted theirs—how cool was that! c. In weakened use: all right, ‘OK’; satisfactory, acceptable; unproblematic, safe. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > quality of being good > quality of being satisfactory > [adjective] wellOE sufferablea1340 worthy1340 sufficient1489 paregala1500 competent1535 something like?1556 right1567 sweet1577 fairish1611 all right1652 fair1656 comfortable1658 decent1711 respectable1750 unrepulsive1787 decentisha1814 fair-to-middling1822 fine1828 christena1838 OK1839 tidy1844 not (or none) so dusty?1856 sweet1898 oke1928 okey-doke1934 okey-dokey1936 tickety-boo1939 cool1951 aight1993 1951 J. Kerouac On the Road: Orig. Scroll (2007) 189 He [sc. the marijuana dealer] was absurdly cautious. ‘Got to look out for myself, things ain't cool this past week.’ 1952 G. Mandel Flee Angry Strangers 257 Go on home to the Bronx, Dinch. You'll be cool up there. 1959 Esquire Nov. in R. L. Gold Jazz Lexicon (1964) 66 ‘Do you want to go to the movies?’ ‘It's cool with me (acquiescence).’ 1974 O. Clark Diary 18 Apr. (1998) 13 Uptight Meeting with a complete breakdown. Have I burnt my boats? No, it's cool. 1984 A. Thomas Intertidal Life i. 39 I am ‘laying another trip’ on him but that's cool, he can deal with it. 2001 G. Joseph Homegrown xxii. 308 He had seen Devon in the street and hid from him, unable to smile in his face and say that everything was cool. B. adv. = coolly adv. (in various senses). ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > calmness > self-possession or self-control > [adverb] coldly1526 coolly1580 cool1673 cold blood1711 self-possessedly1854 self-containedly1866 1673 J. Ray Observ. Journey Low-countries 252 [The streets] are made so on purpose,..partly to keep off the scorching beams of the Sun in Summer time, for the conveniency of walking cool. 1789 E. Butler Jrnl. 17 Apr. in E. M. Bell Hamwood Papers (1930) 200 He says he will fight any man who looks cool at him. 1800 Sporting Mag. 17 90/2 Nor did he ever look cool, even upon his enemies. 1861 T. Parker Serm. Theism, Atheism, & Pop. Theol. (ed. 3) x. 332 A woman wishes to walk cool in the summer's heat. c1944 L. Armstrong Goffin Notebooks (MS, Louis Armstrong House Museum) II. 19 They treated us rather cool when we went to work. 1970 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 26 Sept. 38/2 He sits cool and has the ability to bring his horse off the pace. C. int. colloquial (originally U.S.). Expressing approval or assent: ‘All right!’ ‘OK!’ ‘Great!’ ΘΚΠ the mind > language > statement > assent > [interjection] right1594 do1601 sure1651 all right1814 OK1839 ryebuck1859 yassuh1871 achcha1892 righto1893 same here1896 quaiss kitir1898 check1922 righty-ho1926 oke1929 okey-dokey1932 okey-doke1934 okle-dokle1947 cool1948 seen1973 aight1993 1948 New Yorker 3 July 28 The bebop people have a language of their own... Their expressions of approval include ‘cool’! 1957 C. K. Myers Light in Dark Streets 79 Guess I'll head for the old lady's pad. It's uptown, only ten stops. Cool, man, cool. 1969 Phylon 30 198 Cool, man. 1994 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 21 Apr. a 20/5 Cool, this program does everything! 1997 C. Brookmyre Country of Blind (2001) vii. 172 ‘Staun oot the way an' let us get on wi' it.’ ‘Aye. Nae bother. Cool.’ 2003 R. Liddle Too Beautiful for You (2004) 161 ‘Uh’. ‘Oh right’. ‘Sure, cool’. We all say. Phrases colloquial (originally U.S.). too cool for school: coolly self-possessed; extremely fashionable or trendy, esp. (frequently depreciative) self-regardingly or arrogantly so.In quot. 1981 with literal reference to a school. ΚΠ 1981 Washington Post 12 Mar. (Virginia Weekly section) 1/3 As Pat likes to describe it, he was too cool for school. Instead of class, he preferred shoplifting.] 1985 Houston Chron. 9 May vi. 7/2 It feels pretty silly to adopt a too-cool-for-school facial expression..and then realize it is the wrong car. 1997 Mediaweek 17 Feb. 22/3 Is it a stretch to imagine the sideburned, too-cool-for-school guy..leading..a snake dance at a wild animal farm? 2004 L. Shorter Hedonist's Guide Tallinn 82 The interior looks like a pull-out from Wallpaper magazine: easy on the eyes and a bit too cool for school. Compounds C1. Complementary and parasynthetic. See also cool-headed adj. a. cool-looking adj. ΚΠ 1819 A. Reed No Fiction ix. 120 How grateful, at noon, in the shade of a tree, Which spreads within view of a cool looking alley. 1941 Chicago Defender 5 Apr. 8/7 That cool looking cat that is taking Lucinda..around these days. 1992 H. Mitchell One Man's Garden vi. 119 The white..[flowers] with red eyes are cool-looking in the summer heat. 2002 H. Ritchie Friday Night Club (2003) iii. viii. 276 This place is crammed with cool-looking twentysomethings. cool-rooted adj. ΚΠ 1820 J. Keats Ode to Psyche in Lamia & Other Poems 118 Cool-rooted flowers. 1904 W. de la Mare Henry Brocken 147 The cool-rooted flowers. ΚΠ 1767 S. Pennington Lett. III. 171 And here, cool shelter'd from the mid-day sun. b. cool-brained adj. = cool-headed adj. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > calmness > self-possession or self-control > [adjective] coolc1430 coldc1500 within oneself (itself, etc.)1518 cool-headed1684 present to oneself1692 possesseda1698 self-restrained1700 self-collecteda1711 cool (cold) as a cucumbera1732 self-possessing1732 self-regulating1755 cool-brained1765 self-possessed1766 self-restraining1777 self-disciplined?1791 self-controlling1796 self-repressed1814 self-controlled1822 self-contained1838 self-repressing1849 unimpulsive1856 posé1858 downbeat1953 cucumber-cool1955 supercool1965 1765 London Mag. Mar. 118/2 I am..neither what he calls a teacher, nor disposed to be a blind follower, either of an hot headed one, or of the cool-brained Publicus. 1869 ‘M. Twain’ Innocents Abroad xxxviii. 126 Thick-headed commentators upon the Bible..work more damage to religion than sensible, cool-brained clergymen can fight away again. 1930 Classical Jrnl. 25 376 What greater difference could two Athenians show than the difference of temper between this cool-brained realist..and Xenophon. 1985 Financial Times (Nexis) 24 Feb. (Weekend FT) p. vii Cool-brained indeed is the traveller who can resist the odd few pence off a litre of Scotch. cool-hearted adj. = cold-hearted adj. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > harmfulness > hard-heartedness > [adjective] hard hearteOE hateleOE hard-heartedc1225 cruel1297 dure1412 flinty1536 heartless1556 flint-hearted1560 stone-hearted?1569 stony-hearted1569 iron-hearted1570 steel-hearted1571 unbowelled1592 blunt1594 flintful1596 flint-heart1596 brassy1600 unfeeling1600 cold-blooded1602 cold-hearteda1616 flinty-hearted1629 callous1647 unsympathizing1735 cool-hearted1748 pebble-hearted1816 unsympathetic1823 cold1849 the mind > emotion > absence of emotion > [adjective] > cold or lacking warm feeling winter-coldOE coldc1175 cheald1340 umbrous1483 key-colda1535 frosty1548 frostbitten1564 icy1567 wintry1579 cold-hearteda1616 unwarmeda1625 dry1637 cool1641 frigidal1651 frigid1658 thieveless1725 cool-hearted1748 wintry1748 chill1751 cold as charity1795 freezing1813 ice-cold1815 chilly1841 impersonal1846 pincé1858 ice-cool1891 touch-me-not-ish1895 marmorean1902 1748 Humble Addr. Progress of Popery 4 Our lethargic, cool-hearted and indifferent great Masters of Wisdom. 1856 La Crosse (Wisconsin) Independent Republican 10 Sept. They will..show a degree of cool hearted villainy..on the part of the public officers. 1915 P. Grainger Let. 25 Dec. in All-round Man (1994) 15 I have always looked upon..the English as a somewhat cool-hearted but jolly clever..lot. 2006 New Yorker (Nexis) 7 Aug. 64 A writer often accused of being too cerebral and cool-hearted. C2. cool bag n. chiefly British a bag made of insulated material, used for keeping food and drink cool. ΚΠ 1971 E. Afr. Standard (Nairobi) 10 Apr. 2/1 (advt.) For the best selection of..cool boxes and bags. 1989 Grattan Direct Catal. Spring–Summer 578/1 17 litre Populaire cool bag. Ideal for beach, picnics and frozen food shopping. 2003 N. Brownlee Everything you didn't need to know about UK 120 Special coolbags were given free to guests,..packed with goodies including champagne, smoked salmon wrap, ‘Jubilee Chicken’ and strawberries and cream. cool beans int. and adj. U.S. colloquial (a) int. expressing approval or delight; ‘great’, ‘cool’; (b) adj. (in predicative use) excellent, admirable. ΚΠ 1985 M. F. Shyer Grandpa Ritz & Luscious Lovelies xiv. 81 ‘Oh, wow! Cool beans!’ I whispered. 1992 Spin Nov. 25/2 Your guide to Lollapalooza '92 was cool beans! 2006 Lebanon (Pa.) Daily News (Nexis) 16 Aug. From a parent's perspective and a vendor's perspective, this is pretty cool beans. 2011 E. Schappell Blueprints building Better Girls (2012) 211 ‘Cool beans,’ she says. cool-blooded adj. = cold-blooded adj. 2; cf. sense A. 2b. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > absence of emotion > [adjective] > cold-blooded cold-bloodeda1616 chill1751 cool-blooded1767 bloodless1794 cold1849 fish-blooded1898 1767 New Coll. Lett. Persons of Eminence II. 307 Would you believe that such a cool blooded boy could ever become delirious? power, alas! 1816 W. Scott Black Dwarf vi, in Tales of my Landlord 1st Ser. I. 125 That cool-blooded, hardened, unrelenting ruffian. 1865 G. Meredith Rhoda Fleming II. viii. 174 I'm not cool-blooded enough to bet against favourites. 2006 West Austral. (Perth) (Nexis) 7 Sept. (Features section) 22 You'd be a cool-blooded soul not to spare a passing thought to terrorism as you approach a visit to London these days. cool box n. an insulated container or compartment for keeping food and drink cool. ΚΠ 1919 L. R. Balderston Housewifery viii. 216 In building a house, it is well to provide a cool box built on the outside wall of the house. 1970 Cape Times 28 Oct. 26/6 (advt.) Coleman cool boxes. 2005 Trav. Afr. Autumn 13/1 The boys had..wedged the cool boxes under a picnic bench, but the baboons had these after only a moderate workout. Cool Breeze n. (also with lower-case initials) (chiefly in African-American usage) used as a nickname or familiar form of address, esp. for a person regarded as shrewd, fashionable, or amiable. ΚΠ 1925 Pittsburgh Courier 17 Oct. 10/3 Mr. Elwood Gardner, alias ‘Cool Breeze’, is playing the Roosevelt Theatre. 1967 M. Braly On the Yard xiii. 195 Cool Breeze jus' bogart his way in. 1995 Charlotte (N. Carolina) Observer (Nexis) 14 May 18 v What's up, cool breeze? 2002 W. Ellis Spiritual Exercises xxiii. 139 ‘Hey, Cool Breeze,’ Carl said, ‘What's happening?’ cool-burning adj. (a) characterized by simultaneous sensations of heat and cold; (b) that burns at a low temperature. ΚΠ 1843 Q. Rev. Dec. 310/2 In the delirium of her agony, she talks of ‘cool burning tears’. 1898 Times 7 Apr. 10/1 Having obtained this rapidity in combustion di-nitro-toluene was introduced as a taming ingredient and by its introduction produced a comparatively cool-burning powder with a combustion that was gradual. 1907 Practitioner June 864 Arhovin..is a yellowish liquid of aromatic colour and slightly cool-burning taste. 1989 Industr. & Engin. Chem. Res. 28 431/1 Triaminoguanidine nitrate..has been used primarily as an oxidizer in cool-burning gun propellants for rapid fire weapon systems. cool cat n. an admirably fashionable or stylish person; spec. an enthusiast of jazz; cf. cat n.1 2c, hepcat n. ΚΠ 1942 Chicago Defender 23 May 10/6 Perry Givens played a cool cat at the May dance Friday. 1957 N. Mailer in Dissent Summer 288 Still I am just one cat in a world of cool cats, and everything interesting is crazy, or at least so the Squares who do not know how to swing would say. 1991 C. Eddy Stairway to Hell 203/1 Three cool cats of the jazzistic variety. cool chamber n. (a) a special compartment or piece of apparatus which is kept cool or contains cool air; cf. hot chamber n. at hot adj. and n.1 Compounds 3; (b) a room kept cool for the storage of perishable goods; cf. cool room n. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preserving or pickling > [noun] > preserving by cooling or freezing > place or machine for ice room1758 ice chamber1768 icebox1792 cool chamber1801 ice chest1826 freezer1847 refrigerator1861 chill-room1884 ice cave1884 cold store1895 cool store1906 Coolgardie?1924 fridge1926 Frigidaire1926 deep freeze1941 chest freezer1947 hydro-cooler1947 reefer1958 fridge-freezer1971 flash freezer1984 blast freezer1986 1801 J. Anderson Recreations in Agric. July 354 Let another opening be made in the roof, or higher part of the stove, communicating either with the open air, or with the cool chamber above. 1884 Times 4 Jan. 12/3 They [sc. sheep carcasses] are hung from a rail in a cool chamber. 1992 Logistics & Transportation Rev. (Nexis) June 207 They examine individual shipments, adding dummy variables for hazardous cargo and cargo requiring cool chamber storage. 1995 Proc. National Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 92 6370/1 Electrophoresis was conducted on cellulose acetate gels..in a cool chamber (4°C) at 200 V for 30 min. ΚΠ 1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Cool-crape, a slight Chequer'd Stuff made in imitation of Scotch Plad. 1725 New Canting Dict. When a Person dies, he is said to be put into his Cool-crape. 1785 F. Grose Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue Cool crape, a shroud. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > wine > drinks made with wine > [noun] > wine flavoured with herbs sage wine1597 purl royal1675 cool tankard1688 cool cup1775 May drink1851 Maitrank1858 May wine1890 May bowl1951 1775 Duchess of Northumberland Short Tour 28 We..had a cool cup made to drink with it. 1856 A. F. Hector Agnes Waring II. xiii. 265 It's a cooling trifle I've brought you, a drink I'm introducing among the benighted creatures here; we call it cool cup at home. cool customer n. a person who is calm and composed, esp. where alarm, dismay, or diffidence would be expected (cf. senses A. 2a, A. 2d); cf. customer n. 6. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > calmness > self-possession or self-control > [noun] > person having possessor1713 cool customer1823 self-regulator1861 1823 W. Scott St. Ronan's Well I. xiii. 293 Yonder Tyrrel looks like a tevilish cool customer—..I can promise you he is mettle to the back bone. 1869 Ballou's Monthly Mag. July 98/1 (heading) A cool customer... A lathy fellow entered his place and ordered a double stew of oysters... ‘Seventy-five cents.’.. ‘I haint got any money.’ The last we ever saw of him he was walking very leisurely down the street. 1941 A. Christie Evil under Sun v. 96 Cool customer. Not giving anything away, is he? 1997 N. DeMille Plum Island xxviii. 379 He must have known that I knew both his secrets, yet he was not ruffled... A very cool customer, indeed. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > materials having undergone process > [adjective] > having undergone other processes alumed1574 splinted1616 scribed1678 cold-drawn1716 droved1754 cool-drawn1774 swaged1842 spliced1859 chiselled1873 steam-cured1909 refinished1910 precast1914 fibrillated1929 plasticized1937 foamed1943 1774 T. Kirkland Treat. Child-bed Fevers ii. 145 I would recommend the application of linen cloths, wet in cool-drawn linseed oil. 1795 Hull Advertiser 10 Oct. 2/1 Whale Oil of this and last year, Cool Drawn. coolhouse n. a greenhouse kept at a cool temperature. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > gardening > equipment and buildings > [noun] > greenhouse or glass-house > other types of glass-house or hothouse orangeryc1660 winter garden1736 pinery1756 succession house1786 mushroom house1797 striking-house1824 palm house1826 show house1831 cold house1841 pine-house1843 orchard house1858 coolhouse1869 1869 J. Davis tr. B. Auerbach Villa on Rhine 69 There he is, in the cool-house. 1958 Listener 21 Aug. 275/1 A Luculia growing up the back wall of a cool house. 2006 Belfast News Let. (Nexis) 4 Jan. 10 The large six-roomed house..with its own barn, smokehouse,..and coolhouse built over a spring. cool one n. North American colloquial = cold one n. at cold adj. Additions. ΚΠ 1955 San Antonio (Texas) Light 12 June 11 a/1 One day before payday servicemen who have run out of cash can claim their dollar, have a few cool ones while they sweat out the payline the next day. 2008 Above Law (Nexis) 22 Feb. Plaintiffs had been throwing down a few cool ones at a neighborhood watering hole. cool room n. a room kept cool (esp. by refrigeration) for the storage of perishable goods; (now) spec. (chiefly Australian and New Zealand) one which forms part of a shop or other commercial premises. ΚΠ 1939 Agric. Hist. 13 88 All Northwestern apples..were sent in refrigerator cars to the Atlantic seaboard and transshipped on steamers equipped with coolroom space. 1977 Weekly Times (Melbourne) 19 Jan. 62/2 (advt.) News Milk Bar, deli. fruit and vegs, coolroom, freehold, 3br residence. 1996 N.Z. News UK 28 Feb. 11/2 (advt.) We require the services of..service persons with supermarket rack, coolroom and commercial refrigeration experience. 2003 Age (Melbourne) (Nexis) 25 Jan. 13 Fruit and vegetables languishing in cool rooms or freezers for weeks, even months, before they are brought out. cool store n. chiefly Australian and New Zealand a building or room kept cool for the storage of perishable goods; cf. cool room n. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preserving or pickling > [noun] > preserving by cooling or freezing > place or machine for ice room1758 ice chamber1768 icebox1792 cool chamber1801 ice chest1826 freezer1847 refrigerator1861 chill-room1884 ice cave1884 cold store1895 cool store1906 Coolgardie?1924 fridge1926 Frigidaire1926 deep freeze1941 chest freezer1947 hydro-cooler1947 reefer1958 fridge-freezer1971 flash freezer1984 blast freezer1986 1906 Jrnl. Soc. Compar. Legislation 7 447 Any produce that has been seized must be kept, if possible, in a cool store pending the result of legal proceedings. 1959 N.Z. Listener 18 Dec. 8/1 The trees were all about..and only occasionally between them was a gleam of the sun... ‘Like being in a cool-store, isn't it?’ 2001 Weekly Times (Austral.) (Nexis) 24 Oct. 4 About 70-80 per cent of the electricity used on Mr Ahmet's Shepparton property goes to power his cool store. cool-touch adj. (of electrical equipment) having an outer casing or surface which is cool to the touch. ΚΠ 1954 Los Angeles Times 25 Apr. i. 9 (advt.) ‘Cool touch’ handles. 1980 Evening Capital (Annapolis, Maryland) 11 Feb. 6/1 (advt.) Heated curling brush... Cool touch nylon bristles keep heated core away from fingers. 1995 M. Lawrence et al. Which? Guide Home Safety & Security i. 14 Keep small children away from the hob and oven—especially its glass door, unless you have a cool-touch type. cool-trough n. (also (Yorkshire) cou-trough, col-trough) now historical a trough of cold water used by a blacksmith to cool hot iron. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > coldness > cooling agent or appliance > [noun] > vessel coolera1550 cool-trough1558 society > occupation and work > equipment > receptacle or container > vessel > vessels for other specific purposes > [noun] > for cooling coolera1550 cool-trough1558 water cooler1807 1558 in E. Roberts & K. Parker Southampton Probate Inventories, 1447–1575 (1992) I. 112 A cole trowe, ij d. 1565 T. Cooper Thesaurus at Ferraria aqua Smithes water in the cole trough [wherin] they quench yron. 1659 C. Hoole tr. J. A. Comenius Orbis Sensualium Pictus lxvii. 141/1 He quencheth Hot-Irons in the Cool-trough. 1888 S. O. Addy Gloss. Words Sheffield 52 Cou-trough, a trough of cold water into which a blacksmith plunges hot iron. It is sometimes called col-trough. 2002 J. Unwin in M. C. Beaudry Findings (2006) v. 121 Joshua Russell, d. 1698, had a smithy with two hearths and a complement of tools for each—bellows, stock, anvil, cool-trough, hammers and tongs. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online June 2022). coolv.1 1. intransitive. To become less hot or warm; to become cool. Frequently with down, off. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > coldness > be cold [verb (intransitive)] > become cold > cool coolOE relent1589 aslake1810 defervesce1859 OE Andreas (1932) 1256 Weder coledon heardum hægelscurum, swylce hrim ond forst, hare hildstapan, hæleða eðel lucon, leoda gesetu. OE Guthlac B 1307 Englas feredun to þam longan gefean, lic colode, belifd under lyfte. OE tr. Pseudo-Apuleius Herbarium (Vitell.) (1984) xciv. 138 Genim þas..wyrte, seoð on weallendon wætere, let þonne colian swa oðþæt hyt man drincan mæge. c1225 (?c1200) St. Juliana (Bodl.) l. 678 (MED) Hit [sc. the boiling pitch] colede..anan ant warð hire ase wunsum as þah hit were a wlech beað. a1475 Liber Cocorum (Sloane) (1862) 44 In boylande water þou kast hom may. To harden þen take hom oute to cole. 1527 L. Andrewe tr. H. Brunschwig Vertuose Boke Distyllacyon sig. Bijv Whan it is baken..let it cole by hymselfe. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost v. 396 A while discourse they hold; No fear lest Dinner coole . View more context for this quotation 1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth V. 308 The eggs..of small birds..being liable to cool more quickly. 1830 C. Lyell Princ. Geol. I. 81 What form the melted matter may assume at great depths on cooling down. 1867 E. Allardyce Goodwife at Home v. 6 The wort's jist queelin there. 1890 C. A. Young Elem. Astron. §487 Jupiter and Saturn, Uranus and Neptune, do not seem yet to have cooled off to anything like the earth's condition. 1903 Eng. Dial. Dict. IV. 673/2 Lat 'im queel i' the skin 'at he het in. 1923 H. Crane Let. 23 Sept. (1965) 148 Later on when the weather cools. 1955 E. Bowen World of Love vii. 137 That should give the rhubarb time to cool off. 1991 Which? May 262/1 Be careful to let radiant rings cool down before attempting to clean them. 2006 Science 6 Oct. 71/1 As the resulting gas concentrations become denser, the gas cools relatively quickly. 2. figurative. a. intransitive. To become less zealous or ardent; to lose the heat of excitement, passion, or emotion; to diminish in intensity or activity. Also with down, off. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > absence of emotion > lack sensitivity [verb (intransitive)] > grow cold coolOE keelc1325 coldc1374 freeze1557 colden1863 OE Guthlac A 38 Woruld is onhrered, colaþ Cristes lufu, sindan costinga geond middangeard monge arisene. OE Paternal Precepts 69 Nis nu fela folca þætte fyrngewritu healdan wille, ac him hyge brosnað, ellen colað, idlað þeodscype. 1483 W. Caxton tr. J. de Voragine Golden Legende 250/2 He made to cole the cruelte of the persecutours. a1525 G. Myll Spectakle of Luf in W. A. Craigie Asloan MS (1923) I. 276 And thar gudis faill, thair luf within schort tyme sall cule. 1546 J. Heywood Dialogue Prouerbes Eng. Tongue ii. vi. sig. I v Their good opinion therin..cooles. a1616 W. Shakespeare Julius Caesar (1623) iv. ii. 19 Thou hast describ'd A hot Friend, cooling . View more context for this quotation 1665 S. Patrick Parable of Pilgrim xix. 193 After the first on-set..they are wont to cool and make a retreat. 1735 A. Pope Of Char. of Women 14 That ne'er shall answer till a Husband cool. 1759 S. Fielding Hist. Countess of Dellwyn II. xii. 135 There was no Probability that he would ever suffer my Lord to cool in his Purpose before it was put in Execution. 1766 S. R. Scott Hist. Sir George Ellison II. iv. vii. 235 The ardour of their humanity never cooled. 1842 T. B. Macaulay Frederic the Great in Ess. (1854) 679/2 This eccentric friendship was fast cooling. 1882 W. Besant Revolt of Man (1883) v. 114 To give this feeling time to cool down. 1887 Lantern (New Orleans) 7 May 2/2 Maher was sent to jail to cool off. 1925 E. M. Brent-Dyer School at Chalet xix. 242 Bernhilda had cooled down, and was able to laugh at the affair. 1941 ‘G. Orwell’ Lion & Unicorn i. v. 47 Many intellectuals of the Left..shrieked for war against Germany.., and then promptly cooled off when the war started. 1987 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 3 Dec. d1/3 As the rate of job growth in the Northeast has declined, the suburban housing market has cooled. 2001 S. Walton You heard it through Grapevine vi. 136 As tempers cooled during the 1990s, the industry regrouped. b. intransitive. Of a thing: to become less opportune or relevant. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > time > a suitable time or opportunity > untimeliness > [verb (intransitive)] > of things (lose opportuneness) cool1602 1602 R. Carew Surv. Cornwall i. f.17v This for a while was hotely onsetted and a reasonable price offered, but (vpon what ground I know not) soone cooled againe. a1616 W. Shakespeare Merry Wives of Windsor (1623) iv. ii. 210 Come, to the Forge with it, then shape it: I would not haue things coole . View more context for this quotation a1616 W. Shakespeare Coriolanus (1623) iv. i. 44 Aduantage, which doth euer coole Ith'absence of the needer. View more context for this quotation 1672 J. Dryden Conquest Granada ii. iii. ii. 108 Your business cools, while tediously it stays On the low Theme of Adelmelechs praise. 1758 D. Garrick Gamesters iii. 44 The merchant's money cools: away; be wise, And keep conditions: I must to the gamester. 1978 Globe & Mail (Toronto) (Nexis) 28 Aug. Is the federal Government's growing fondness for midsummer night news conferences..a deliberate ploy to avoid scrutiny..until after the news has cooled? ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > fear > physical symptoms of fear > exhibit physical symptoms [verb (intransitive)] > be chilled by fear freeze1557 coola1616 the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > coldness > be cold [verb (intransitive)] > become cold > of person > with fear coola1616 a1616 W. Shakespeare Macbeth (1623) v. v. 10 The time ha's beene, my sences would haue cool'd To heare a Night-shrieke. View more context for this quotation d. intransitive. colloquial (originally U.S.). With out. To calm down, relax; to take it easy. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > calmness > become composed or calm [verb (intransitive)] saughtelc1400 breathe1485 pacify1509 settle1591 compose1663 to breathe freely (also easy, easily)1695 tranquillize1748 cool1836 simmer down1842 calm1877 relax1907 to cool it1952 to Zen out1968 mellow1974 to take a chill pill1981 chillax1994 1836 J. S. French Elkswatana I. 171 Resting a while, just long enough to cool out a little. 1875 A. G. Guillemard Over Land & Sea xii. 200 The conflict ceases, the bargain is concluded,..and buyer and seller retire amicably to ‘cool out’ with a brandy-smash. 1926 Syracuse (N.Y.) Herald 26 Aug. 19/4 The old chief and I talked it over a little later in the day. He cooled out and told me he didn't blame me. 1979 E. Lovelace Dragon can't Dance iv. 74 I just cooling out. You want a cigarette? 1990 A. Gordon Safe at Home xxi. 150 Hey, cool out, Andy... You're among friends. 2000 R. Barger et al. Hell's Angel xiv. 242 They suggested I just go home for a couple days. Cool out and have a good time. 3. a. transitive. To impart a sensation of coolness to; esp. to refresh or ease by allaying excessive or painful heat. Also reflexive. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > refreshment or invigoration > refresh or invigorate [verb (transitive)] > specific coolc1330 aventc1440 recreatec1530 frostbite1667 over-inform1681 the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > coldness > make cold [verb (transitive)] > cool > a person, the body, or its heat coolc1330 strangle?1527 refrigeratea1535 ventilate1805 c1330 (?c1300) Bevis of Hampton (Auch.) l. 2814 (MED) A dede of is helm of stel And colede him þer in fraiche wel. a1425 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Christ Church Oxf.) (1850) Luke xvi. 24 Koole [c1384 Douce 369(2) Send Lazarus, that he dippe the laste part of his fyngur in watir, and kele my tunge]. 1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) xi. l. 428 The cler watter culyt the hors sumdeill. a1522 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid (1959) vii. viii. 43 He held doun swymmand the cleir ryver streme, To cuyll hys heyt vnder a gresy bra. 1580 A. Saker Narbonus ii. 25 Wee haue fayre Fountaines to coole our dried throates, and fine Welles to quench our great thirst. 1600 W. Shakespeare Merchant of Venice iii. i. 58 Warmed and cooled by the same Winter and Sommer as a Christian is. View more context for this quotation 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 117 The ready Cure to cool the raging Pain. View more context for this quotation 1705 R. Blackmore Eliza i. 2 With the Balmy Dews, and Crystal Streams, He cools his fester'd Limbs. a1777 F. Fawkes tr. Apollonius Rhodius Argonautics (1780) iv. 282 He, like a sturdy traveller, stalk'd along, Seeking some fount to cool his fiery tongue. 1788 Caledonian Mag. Aug. 447 But tho' the wark baith queel'd and het her, I'm thinking yet she'll get the better. 1864 Ld. Tennyson Aylmer's Field in Enoch Arden, etc. 66 Cooling her false cheek with a featherfan. 1883 M. K. Waddington Let. 30 June in Lett. Diplomat's Wife (1903) I. 151 The long drive had cooled us. 1915 Washington Post 4 Apr. (Mag. section) 1/1 He cooled his burning flesh beneath the great electric fan. 1959 N. Mailer Advts. for Myself (1961) 71 It burned and stung inside his stomach, and he kept blowing, trying to cool his mouth. 1985 Syracuse (N.Y.) Herald-Jrnl. 21 July l6/1 A sleepy, three-block stretch, where children bicycle..and cool themselves with garden hoses. 2007 Edmonton (Alberta) Sun (Nexis) 27 June 69 I was hoping to get my wings served the traditional way with fresh cut celery and blue cheese dip to cool the burn. b. transitive. Medicine. Of medicine, treatment, etc.: to lower the temperature (of the blood, body, etc.). Also intransitive. Cf. cool adj. 1d. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > coldness > make cold [verb (transitive)] > cool > the blood or humours coola1398 a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xvii. cxxv. 1021 Þe colde plum..moysteth & coleþ and beþ ȝeuen aȝeins hete of feueres. ?a1425 (?1373) Lelamour Herbal (1938) f. 48v (MED) Hit..will kole a woman that ys hote and dispose hir well to consayve a childe. ?a1450 tr. Lanfranc Sci. Cirurgie (BL Add. 12056) (1894) 11 (MED) Whanne þat a mete oþere a medycine..hetyth hym noȝt & colyth hym nauȝt. 1578 J. Rolland Seuin Seages 181 It [sc. this herb] is richt wonder gude To cuill Feuer. 1614 S. Latham Falconry ii. xii. 100 Contrariwise ouer much heat in it self, may be the cause of that weaknesse [sc. in a hawk's stomach]... You must of necessity coole it with some coole thing that is meet for it. a1616 W. Shakespeare Merry Wives of Windsor (1623) iii. v. 21 My bellies as cold as if I had swallow'd snow-bals, for pilles to coole the reines. View more context for this quotation 1714 J. Purcell Treat. Cholick 161 Steel..given in this manner (which for the most part rather Cools than Heats). 1829 Jrnl. Health 1 66 If rather bolder practitioners, they will give sweet spirits of nitre, because they read that it cools the fever. 1875 Times 20 Oct. 4/4 The second-class traveller buys a huge sandia..; a lump of this cools the fevered blood; two pounds may be eaten without fear of harm. 1985 Ethnology 24 29 The leaves of..Citrus aurantium, are used to cool the blood postpartum and treat menstrual hemorrhaging. c. transitive. To cause (something) to become less hot or warm; to cause to lose heat. Also with down. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > coldness > make cold [verb (transitive)] > cool keelc825 akeleeOE acool?a1200 acolda1250 coola1400 quencha1400 refroid1477 wear1674 a1400 tr. Lanfranc Sci. Cirurgie (Ashm.) (1894) 192 (MED) Heete hem & cole hem. ?a1475 Promptorium Parvulorum (Winch.) (1908) 115 Colyn or kelyn, frigefacio. 1555 R. Eden tr. P. Giovio Libellus de legatione Basilii in tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde f. 287 The common people..are acustomed for delycatenes [i]n sommer to coole theyr beere and mede with puttynge Ise therin. 1599 H. Porter Pleasant Hist. Two Angrie Women of Abington sig. Ev You may..keepe your winde to coole your pottage. a1616 W. Shakespeare Merry Wives of Windsor (1623) iii. v. 112 To be throwne into the Thames, and coold, glowing-hot, in that serge like a Horse-shoo; thinke of that; hissing hot. View more context for this quotation 1695 J. Woodward Ess. Nat. Hist. Earth 207 The Air, which ventilates and cools the Mines. 1705 J. Addison Remarks Italy 242 Snow..they..use..because, as they say, it cools or congeals any Liquor sooner. 1776 Farmer's Mag. Apr. 28 Some good marle, or chalk..might possibly cool the land. 1817 W. Tucker Family Dyer & Scourer (1818) 54 When these ingredients are boiled enough, cool your copper down. 1862 B. Brodie Psychol. Inq. II. iii. 74 A thunderstorm..had cooled the atmosphere. 1902 Newark (Ohio) Advocate 8 Sept. 4/5 A clump of trees cools the air as a piece of ice cools the water in a pitcher. 1969 B. Spock Baby & Child Care (U.K. rev. ed.) 132 Put the bottle in hot water, bring to a boil..then cool it down to body temperature before giving it. 1990 Field & Stream Mar. 41/2 The fish will begin to spawn, only to be driven off by a cold snap that cools the water suddenly. 4. figurative. a. transitive. To make less zealous or ardent; to cause (a person) to lose the heat of excitement, passion, or emotion; to reduce the intensity of (a feeling, an activity, etc.). Also with down, (U.S. colloquial) out. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > calmness > compose or make calm [verb (transitive)] softa1225 stilla1325 coolc1330 accoya1375 appeasec1374 attemperc1386 lullc1386 quieta1398 peasea1400 amesec1400 assuagec1400 mesec1400 soberc1430 modify?a1439 establish1477 establish1477 pacify1484 pacify1515 unbrace?1526 settle1530 steady1530 allay1550 calm1559 compromitc1574 restore1582 recollect1587 serenize1598 smooth1604 compose1607 recompose1611 becalm1613 besoothe1614 unprovokea1616 halcyon1616 unstrain1616 leniate1622 tranquillize1623 unperplexa1631 belull1631 sedate1646 unmaze1647 assopiatea1649 serenate1654 serene1654 tranquillify1683 soothe1697 unalarm1722 reserene1755 quietize1791 peacify1845 quieten1853 conjure1856 peace1864 disfever1880 patise1891 de-tension1961 mellow1974 the mind > emotion > absence of emotion > make emotionally unfeeling [verb (transitive)] > make cold coolc1330 frostbite1593 disinflame?1611 freezea1616 colden1860 c1330 (?c1300) Bevis of Hampton (Auch.) l. 650 (MED) He..leide him deueling on þe grounde, To kolen [v.rr. kele, solace] is hertte in þat stounde. c1410 (c1350) Gamelyn (Harl. 7334) l. 540 (MED) Sitte þer, broþer..For to colyn þy blood! 1489 W. Caxton tr. C. de Pisan Bk. Fayttes of Armes iv. xii. 265 To repente hymself of the castynge of his gage and to be so koled of the bataylle. a1500 (c1340) R. Rolle Psalter (Univ. Oxf. 64) (1884) xxxviii. §18. 145 That i ware kolid in þi mercy fra hete of vices and temptaciouns. 1569 R. Grafton Chron. II. 260 The king then being somewhat cooled of his great furie, graunted their desire. 1600 W. Shakespeare Merchant of Venice iii. i. 53 Hee hath..thwarted my bargaines, cooled my friends, heated mine enemies. View more context for this quotation 1646 H. Lawrence Of Communion & Warre with Angels 147 When your concupiscents are cooled by the Holy Ghost. 1670 G. Havers tr. G. Leti Il Cardinalismo di Santa Chiesa ii. i. 136 Which cools the resolutions of the zealousest Prince. 1701 C. Wooley Two Years Jrnl. N.-Y. 82 I..ordered him to fetch a kit full of water and discharge it at them, which immediately cool'd their courage, and loosed their grapples. 1728 E. Young Love of Fame: Universal Passion (ed. 2) ii. 105 But time his fervent petulance may cool; For tho' he is a wit, he is no fool. 1752 S. Johnson Rambler No. 198. ⁋13 I found my friends..cooled in their affection. 1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. 524 The lapse of time which cools the ardour of the friends whom he has left behind. 1883 R. L. Stevenson Treasure Island 147 This little whiff of temper seemed to cool Silver down. He had been growing nettled before, but now he pulled himself together. 1950 N.Y. Herald Tribune 29 July 10/8 The tear-up and the cackle-bladder, two of the major devices for cooling out a mark. 1964 A. W. Gouldner in I. L. Horowitz New Sociol. 209 The restaurant hostess who cools out the impatient customer. 1974 News (Frederick, Maryland) 20 Feb. a4/2 The opposite of this—higher taxes to draw the excess from the money supply to cool a feverish economy—doesn't always work. 1986 New Yorker 18 Aug. 24/1 Don't cool me down, can't you see I'm already off and running? 2003 I. Chang Chinese in Amer. xi. 186 This racism cooled Pardee Lowe's teenage ambition to be elected president of the United States. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > feeling of weariness or tedium > be or become wearied or bored with [verb (transitive)] > make wearisome or tedious leadc1430 stale1601 wooden1641 cool1665 flatten1693 mustify1828 woodenize1877 leaden1899 dehydrate1957 the world > time > relative time > the future or time to come > newness or novelty > make new or novel [verb (transitive)] > deprive of newness cool1665 1665 J. Glanvill Sciri Tuum: Authors Defense To T. Aldius sig. a, in Scepsis Scientifica For what ever heat attends the first sallies of young Inventions, Time..cools these delights. 1717 Lady M. W. Montagu Let. 17 June (1965) I. 367 The great Gulph between You and Me cools all News that comes hither. 1738 R. Thyer Let. 11 Mar. in Private Jrnl. & Lit. Remains (1856) II. i. 198 You are come too late, the thing is cooled. c. transitive. To make less warm in colour; to reduce the warmth or intensity of (a colour or its effect); to tone down. Frequently with down. ΚΠ 1832 J. Constable Let. 17 July III. 78 Darken one of the children dancing, her on the right—cool her drapery and darken it. 1842 R. Hendrie Two Lett. to Amateur Artist 32 A few transparent glazings will either warm up tints too heavy..or cool down tints too warm. 1846 T. H. Fielding Painting in Oil & Water Colour (ed. 4) 125 It seems to be the natural tendency of finish to cool down and subdue the brightest colours. 1969 Winnipeg Free Press 12 Feb. (advt.) Colour fidelity control... You can warm up or cool down colours to suit your preference. 1996 Amateur Gardening 25 May 17/2 Cool down the hottest colours with Nicotiana ‘Lime Green’. 1996 A. Lawson Gardener's Bk. of Colour 104 Silver..tends to cool down a scheme by replacing the slightly warmer green foliage colour. d. transitive. U.S. slang. To kill. Also with out. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > killing > kill [verb (transitive)] swevec725 quelmeOE slayc893 quelleOE of-falleOE ofslayeOE aquellc950 ayeteeOE spillc950 beliveOE to bring (also do) of (one's) life-dayOE fordoa1000 forfarea1000 asweveOE drepeOE forleseOE martyrOE to do (also i-do, draw) of lifeOE bringc1175 off-quellc1175 quenchc1175 forswelta1225 adeadc1225 to bring of daysc1225 to do to deathc1225 to draw (a person) to deathc1225 murder?c1225 aslayc1275 forferec1275 to lay to ground, to earth (Sc. at eird)c1275 martyrc1300 strangle1303 destroya1325 misdoa1325 killc1330 tailc1330 to take the life of (also fro)c1330 enda1340 to kill to (into, unto) death1362 brittena1375 deadc1374 to ding to deathc1380 mortifya1382 perisha1387 to dight to death1393 colea1400 fella1400 kill out (away, down, up)a1400 to slay up or downa1400 swelta1400 voida1400 deliverc1400 starvec1425 jugylc1440 morta1450 to bring to, on, or upon (one's) bierc1480 to put offc1485 to-slaya1500 to make away with1502 to put (a person or thing) to silencec1503 rida1513 to put downa1525 to hang out of the way1528 dispatch?1529 strikea1535 occidea1538 to firk to death, (out) of lifec1540 to fling to deathc1540 extinct1548 to make out of the way1551 to fet offa1556 to cut offc1565 to make away?1566 occise1575 spoil1578 senda1586 to put away1588 exanimate1593 unmortalize1593 speed1594 unlive1594 execute1597 dislive1598 extinguish1598 to lay along1599 to make hence1605 conclude1606 kill off1607 disanimate1609 feeze1609 to smite, stab in, under the fifth rib1611 to kill dead1615 transporta1616 spatch1616 to take off1619 mactate1623 to make meat of1632 to turn up1642 inanimate1647 pop1649 enecate1657 cadaverate1658 expedite1678 to make dog's meat of1679 to make mincemeat of1709 sluice1749 finisha1753 royna1770 still1778 do1780 deaden1807 deathifyc1810 to lay out1829 cool1833 to use up1833 puckeroo1840 to rub out1840 cadaverize1841 to put under the sod1847 suicide1852 outkill1860 to fix1875 to put under1879 corpse1884 stiffen1888 tip1891 to do away with1899 to take out1900 stretch1902 red-light1906 huff1919 to knock rotten1919 skittle1919 liquidate1924 clip1927 to set over1931 creasea1935 ice1941 lose1942 to put to sleep1942 zap1942 hit1955 to take down1967 wax1968 trash1973 ace1975 1833 Sketches & Eccentricities D. Crockett xi. 145 I can kill more lickur..and cool out more men than any man you can find in all Kentucky. 1930 E. W. Scott in Flynn's 6 Sept. 849/1 Eight stick-up Johnnies out of ten aren't so hot about coolin' a cop. 1965 ‘D. Shannon’ Death-bringers (1966) v. 62 Anybody could have cooled him... I don't care one hell of a lot who shot Walter William. 1969 ‘J. Morris’ Fever Grass 251 He wasn't killed in any private fight... He was cooled by a Chinese agent. 1981 Event 9 Oct. 28/1 Cool out, to kill. 5. Horse Riding (chiefly U.S.). With out. a. intransitive. Of a horse: to recover after physical exertion. ΚΠ 1831 Spirit of Times (N.Y.) 10 Dec. 4/3 The way in which the black mare cooled out, showed..that the jig was up, barring accident. 1870 Harper's Mag. July 249 Colonel M'Daniels's filly cooled out well, and when called for the second heat, she was in superb condition. 1936 Daily Gleaner (Kingston, Jamaica) 15 Feb. 34/6 The condition they are in..and how they cool out after a desperate contest..determines the number of times a horse can be started. 2007 Horse & Rider Jan. 60/1 Consider sharing exercise time with a friend... Offer to turn out, hand graze, or longe her horse while yours is cooling out. b. transitive. To enable (a horse or a horse's legs) to recover after physical exertion, esp. by slow walking. Frequently in passive. ΚΠ 1871 H. Woodruff & C. J. Foster Trotting Horse Amer. (new ed.) xxi. 188 The horse will be cooled out in conformity with the directions before given, by slow walking in clothes in the air. 1946 M. C. Self Horseman's Encycl. 430 A horse is brought in from a long ride on a hot day and, having been cooled out, is turned into his stall where his water awaits him. 1990 Equus Aug. 4/1 The fast, easy way to cool out legs, reduce swelling and increase circulation. 2001 L. Hildebrand Seabiscuit (2002) vii. 104 Pollard..sat outside the stall, reading the paper while Seabiscuit was cooled out. 6. intransitive. Sport. With down. To recover from strenuous physical exercise by gradually decreasing the level of exertion, as by jogging and walking after running. Cf. warm v. 9c. ΚΠ 1972 N.Y. Times 21 May v. 5/2 Sprinters run through the tape a long distance after a race to cool down and avoid unnecessary quick stops that can produce pulled muscles. 1992 Future Fitness UK May–June 1 The right way to warm up and cool down: by far the most important part of your workout. 2002 Courier-Mail (Brisbane) 8 July 14/2 Amateur sportspeople who fail to warm up or cool down risk serious injury. PhrasesΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pleasure > state of being consoled or relieved > be relieved of [verb (transitive)] > console or relieve > relieve (suffering) lissea1000 alightOE allayc1225 softc1225 comfort1297 laya1300 eathea1325 allegea1375 appeasec1374 laska1375 slakea1387 releasea1393 balma1400 to bete one of one's balea1400 to cool a person's caresc1400 delivera1413 leggea1425 mitigate?a1425 repress?a1425 alleviate?a1475 allevya1500 alleve1544 leviate1545 lenify1567 allevate1570 ungrieve1589 straight1604 mulcify1653 balsama1666 solace1667 meliorate1796 c1400 (?c1390) Sir Gawain & Green Knight (1940) l. 1254 Keuer hem comfort & colen her carez. P2. slang (originally U.S.). to cool it: to relax, calm down; (also) to curtail or put an end to an activity (frequently with on, with). Frequently in imperative. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > calmness > become composed or calm [verb (intransitive)] saughtelc1400 breathe1485 pacify1509 settle1591 compose1663 to breathe freely (also easy, easily)1695 tranquillize1748 cool1836 simmer down1842 calm1877 relax1907 to cool it1952 to Zen out1968 mellow1974 to take a chill pill1981 chillax1994 1952 H. Ellson Golden Spike ii. 14 No, let's cool it for a while. 1953 E. Gilbert Hot & Cool 13 Cool it, girl. Nobody's interested. 1968 Crescendo June 33/1 Cool it will you? I said once a week, there's no need to go stark raving mad. 1982 O. Clark Diary 18 Feb. (1998) 115 [He] has been told to cool it on the Wall movie after Alan Parker walked off the movie for a week. 1989 E. Hoffman Lost in Transl. (1991) iii. 215 ‘Hey guys, cool it’—Don, a psychology student who hates fights, jumps in. 1990 J. Updike Rabbit at Rest i. 79 For Chrissake, cool it with the channel-changer. 2002 R. Williams Sing yer Heart out for Lads i. 58 Lee. It's over. (To Lawrie. ) Cool it, Lawrie. P3. to cool one's coppers: see copper n.1 8. P4. to cool one's heels (also †feet, †hooves): to rest, esp. after the feet have become hot with walking; (now usually) to wait, to be kept waiting. ΘΚΠ the world > time > a suitable time or opportunity > untimeliness > delay or postponement > delay [verb (intransitive)] > be delayed hang1494 stick?a1518 supersede1569 to cool one's heels (also feet, hooves)1576 slow1601 stay1642 retard1646 to come by the lame post1658 to cool one's toes1665 1576 G. Whetstone Ortchard of Repentance 61 in Rocke of Regard And nowe they will him coole his feete, He cloyde with yrons great. 1606 A. Nixon Black Yeare sig. Dv Many striuing to stretch beyond compasse shal so heate themselues on New-market-heath, that they shall be constrained to coole their heeles in New-gate. ?1611 G. Chapman tr. Homer Iliads iii. 340 The soldiers all sat down enrank'd, each by his arms and horse That then lay down and cool'd their hoofs. 1641 Barthol. Faire 4 Who forthwith comitted my little hot furie to the stockes, where we will leave him to coole his heeles. 1752 H. Fielding Amelia II. vi. ix. 257 In this Parlour, Amelia cooled her Heels, as the Phrase is, near a Quarter of an Hour. 1786 E. Sheridan Let. in Betsy Sheridan's Jrnl. (1986) iii. 77 We had the pleasure of cooling our heels for half an hour. 1847 C. Brontë Let. ?24 Sept. (1995) I. 542 The train was just gone and I had to cool my heels at the station for two hours. 1849 Southern Literary Messenger Feb. 127/2 The humble visitor is warned not to become impatient..at being left to cool his heels in the ante-room of the White House while more important personages are admitted. 1884 H. R. Haggard Dawn I. x. 141 Whilst Philip was cooling his heels in Lincoln's Inn Fields, a rather curious scene was in progress. 1954 I. Murdoch Under Net i. 7 So you may imagine how unhappy it makes me to have to cool my heels at Newhaven, waiting for the trains to run again. 1997 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 26 June 26/1 He was made to cool his heels in the corridor outside some functionary's office while the great man attended to more urgent matters. P5. colloquial (originally U.S.). to cool one's jets: to calm down; to become less excited or agitated. Frequently in imperative.In quot. 19731: to become less warm, cool off. ΚΠ 1973 Daily Tribune (Wisconsin Rapids) 29 Jan. 1/1 If you want to cool your jets, just step outside, where it will be about 10 degrees under cloudy skies. 1973 Independent Record (Helena, Montana) 21 Oct. 4/3 Nixon may be able to stifle Congress but he better cool his jets if he thinks he can mess with the rest of the world. 1984 J. McInerney Bright Lights, Big City 154 ‘What time is it?.. I'm late for work.’ ‘Cool your jets. It's Saturday.’ 1998 I. Welsh Filth 284 God Bruce! Cool yir jets man! We're tryin tae git some sleep! This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022). † coolv.2 Obsolete. rare. intransitive. To run, flow. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > liquid > liquid flow > action or process of flowing > flow [verb (intransitive)] runeOE flowa1000 fledec1175 farea1325 yern1340 fleamc1465 coursea1533 cool1545 roll1697 spend1735 1545 T. Raynald in tr. E. Roesslin Byrth of Mankynde i. sig. G The vessels through which it colith or runnith. 1545 T. Raynald in tr. E. Roesslin Byrth of Mankynde i. sig. H.h.iiiv It droppeth and coolyth out of the vaynes. 1696 D. Manley Royal Mischief iii. i. 26 A pleasing trickling cools through all my Veins, And tempers into Love, what else would be Distraction. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online June 2021). < n.1a1393n.21792adj.adv.int.eOEv.1OEv.21545 |
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