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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.]
   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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   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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   Not retaining heat; light; as, a cool dress.
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   Manifesting coldness or dislike; chilling; apathetic; as, a cool manner.
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   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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   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.]
   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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   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.
   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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   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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