Cold
Cold (kōld) , adjective
[Old English cold, cald, Anglo-Saxon cald, ceald; akin to Old Saxon kald, Dutch koud, German kalt, Icelandic kaldr, Danish kold, Swedish kall, Gothic kalds, Latin gelu frost, gelare to freeze. Orig. past participle of Anglo-Saxon calan to be cold, Icelandic kala to freeze. Compare Cool, a., Chill, n.]
1.
Deprived of heat, or having a low temperature; not warm or hot; gelid; frigid.
The snowy top of cold Olympis.
2.
Lacking the sensation of warmth; suffering from the absence of heat; chilly; shivering; as, to be cold.
3.
Not pungent or acrid.
Cold plants.
4.
Wanting in ardor, intensity, warmth, zeal, or passion; spiritless; unconcerned; reserved.
A cold and unconcerned spectator.
No cold relation is a zealous citizen.
5.
Unwelcome; disagreeable; unsatisfactory.
Cold news for me.
Cold comfort.
6.
Wanting in power to excite; dull; uninteresting.
What a deal of cold business doth a man misspend the better part of life in!
The jest grows cold... when in comes on in a second scene.
7.
Affecting the sense of smell (as of hunting dogs) but feebly; having lost its odor; as, a cold scent.
8.
Not sensitive; not acute.
Smell this business with a sense as cold
As is a dead man's nose.
9.
Distant; -- said, in the game of hunting for some object, of a seeker remote from the thing concealed.
10.
(Painting) Having a bluish effect. Compare Warm, 8.
He was slain in cold blood after the fight was over.
Cold , noun
1.
The relative absence of heat or warmth.
2.
The sensation produced by the escape of heat; chilliness or chillness.
When she saw her lord prepared to part,
A deadly cold ran shivering to her heart.
3.
(Medicine) A morbid state of the animal system produced by exposure to cold or dampness; a catarrh.
Collocations (2)
Cold sore (Medicine) , a vesicular eruption appearing about the mouth as the result of a cold, or in the course of any disease attended with fever.<-- causative virus Herpes simplex -->
To leave one out in the cold , to overlook or neglect him. [Colloquial]
Cold , intransitive verb
To become cold. [Obsolete] — Chaucer