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   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.
   
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   Fanned with cool winds. Milton.
   
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   2. Not ardent, warm, fond, or passionate; not hasty; deliberate; exercising self-control; self-possessed; dispassionate; indifferent; as, “a cool lover; a cool debater”.
   
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   For a patriot, too cool. Goldsmith.
   
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   3. Not retaining heat; light; as, “a cool dress”.
   
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   4. Manifesting coldness or dislike; chilling; apathetic; as, “a cool manner”.
   
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   5. Quietly impudent; negligent of propriety in matters of minor importance, either ignorantly or willfully; presuming and selfish; audacious; as, “cool behavior”.
   
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   Its cool stare of familiarity was intolerable. Hawthorne.
   
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   6. Applied facetiously, in a vague sense, to a sum of money, commonly as if to give emphasis to the largeness of the amount.
   
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   He had lost a cool hundred. Fielding.
   
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   Leaving a cool thousand to Mr. Matthew Pocket. Dickens.
   
   Syn. -- Calm; dispassionate; self-possessed; composed; repulsive; frigid; alienated; impudent.
   
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   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”.
   
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   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”.
   
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   Send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue. Luke xvi. 24.
   
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   2. To moderate the heat or excitement of; to allay, as passion of any kind; to calm; to moderate.
   
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   We have reason to cool our raging motions, our carnal stings, our unbitted lusts. Shak.
   
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   To cool the heels, to dance attendance; to wait, as for admission to a patron's house. [Colloq.]  Dryden.
   
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   Cool, v. i.
   1. To become less hot; to lose heat.
   
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   I saw a smith stand with his hammer, thus,
   
   the whilst his iron did on the anvil cool. Shak.
   
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   2. To lose the heat of excitement or passion; to become more moderate.
   
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   I will not give myself liberty to think, lest I should cool. Congreve.
   
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