Definition of cold

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Cold (n.) The sensation produced by the escape of heat; chilliness or chillness.

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Infrigidation :: Infrigidation (n.) The act of chilling or causing to become cold; a chilling; coldness; congelation.
Gas :: Gas (n.) An aeriform fluid; -- a term used at first by chemists as synonymous with air, but since restricted to fluids supposed to be permanently elastic, as oxygen, hydrogen, etc., in distinction from vapors, as steam, which become liquid on a reduction of temperature. In present usage, since all of the supposed permanent gases have been liquified by cold and pressure, the term has resumed nearly its original signification, and is applied to any substance in the elastic or aeriform state..
Cold :: Cold (n.) The relative absence of heat or warmth.
Branks :: Branks (n.) A scolding bridle, an instrument formerly used for correcting scolding women. It was an iron frame surrounding the head and having a triangular piece entering the mouth of the scold..
Cold :: Cold (n.) Unwelcome; disagreeable; unsatisfactory.
Refrigerate :: Refrigerate (v. t.) To cause to become cool; to make or keep cold or cool.
Clammy :: Clammy (Compar.) Having the quality of being viscous or adhesive; soft and sticky; glutinous; damp and adhesive, as if covered with a cold perspiration..
Cold :: Cold (v. i.) To become cold.
Gelidly :: Gelidly (adv.) In a gelid manner; coldly.
Discountenance :: Discountenance (v. t.) To refuse to countenance, or give the support of one's approval to; to give one's influence against; to restrain by cold treatment; to discourage..
Chill :: Chill (n.) A sensation of cold with convulsive shaking of the body, pinched face, pale skin, and blue lips, caused by undue cooling of the body or by nervous excitement, or forming the precursor of some constitutional disturbance, as of a fever..
About :: About (adv.) Nearly; approximately; with close correspondence, in quality, manner, degree, etc.; as, about as cold; about as high; -- also of quantity, number, time..
Thermosystaltic :: Thermosystaltic (a.) Influenced in its contraction by heat or cold; -- said of a muscle.
Icy :: Icy (superl.) Characterized by coldness, as of manner, influence, etc.; chilling; frigid; cold..
Coldfinch :: Coldfinch (n.) A British wagtail.
Key-cold :: Key-cold (a.) Cold as a metallic key; lifeless.
Black Monday :: Black Monday () Easter Monday, so called from the severity of that day in 1360, which was so unusual that many of Edward III.'s soldiers, then before Paris, died from the cold..
Calypso :: Calypso (n.) A small and beautiful species of orchid, having a flower variegated with purple, pink, and yellow. It grows in cold and wet localities in the northern part of the United States. The Calypso borealis is the only orchid which reaches 68ยก N..
Frosty :: Frosty (a.) Attended with, or producing, frost; having power to congeal water; cold; freezing; as, a frosty night..
Chill :: Chill (v. t.) To strike with a chill; to make chilly; to cause to shiver; to affect with cold.
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