Cool, v. t. [imp. & p.
p. Cooled (?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Cooling.] 1. To make cool or cold; to
reduce the temperature of; as, ice cools water.
Send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his
finger in water, and cool my tongue.
Luke xvi. 24.
2. To moderate the heat or excitement of;
to allay, as passion of any kind; to calm; to moderate.
We have reason to cool our raging motions,
our carnal stings, our unbitted lusts.
Shak.
To cool the heels, to dance attendance;
to wait, as for admission to a patron's house. [Colloq.]
Dryden.
Cool, v. i. 1.
To become less hot; to lose heat.
I saw a smith stand with his hammer, thus,
the whilst his iron did on the anvil cool.
Shak.
2. To lose the heat of excitement or
passion; to become more moderate.
I will not give myself liberty to think, lest I
should cool.
Congreve.
Cool, n. A moderate state of
cold; coolness; -- said of the temperature of the air between hot
and cold; as, the cool of the day; the cool of the
morning or evening.
Cool (?), a.
[Compar. Cooler (?);
superl. Coolest.] [AS. cōl;
akin to D. koel, G. kühl, OHG. chouli, Dan.
kölig, Sw. kylig, also to AS. calan to
be cold, Icel. kala. See Cold, and cf.
Chill.] 1. Moderately cold; between
warm and cold; lacking in warmth; producing or promoting
coolness.
Fanned with cool winds.
Milton.
2. Not ardent, warm, fond, or passionate;
not hasty; deliberate; exercising self-control; self-possessed;
dispassionate; indifferent; as, a cool lover; a
cool debater.
For a patriot, too cool.
Goldsmith.
3. Not retaining heat; light; as, a
cool dress.
4. Manifesting coldness or dislike;
chilling; apathetic; as, a cool manner.
5. Quietly impudent; negligent of
propriety in matters of minor importance, either ignorantly or
willfully; presuming and selfish; audacious; as, cool
behavior.
Its cool stare of familiarity was
intolerable.
Hawthorne.
6. Applied facetiously, in a vague sense,
to a sum of money, commonly as if to give emphasis to the
largeness of the amount.
He had lost a cool hundred.
Fielding.
Leaving a cool thousand to Mr. Matthew
Pocket.
Dickens.
Syn. -- Calm; dispassionate; self-possessed; composed;
repulsive; frigid; alienated; impudent.