Cold /(kōld)/

Cold

Deprived of heat, or having a low temperature; not warm or hot; gelid; frigid.
Lacking the sensation of warmth; suffering from the absence of heat; chilly; shivering; as, to be cold.
Not pungent or acrid.
Wanting in ardor, intensity, warmth, zeal, or passion; spiritless; unconcerned; reserved.
A cold and unconcerned spectator.
— T. Burnet.

No cold relation is a zealous citizen.
— Burke.
Unwelcome; disagreeable; unsatisfactory.
Wanting in power to excite; dull; uninteresting.
What a deal of cold business doth a man misspend the better part of life in!
— B. Jonson.

The jest grows cold . . . when in comes on in a second scene.
— Addison.
Affecting the sense of smell (as of hunting dogs) but feebly; having lost its odor; as, a cold scent.
Not sensitive; not acute.
Smell this business with a sense as cold As is a dead man's nose.
— Shak.
Distant; -- said, in the game of hunting for some object, of a seeker remote from the thing concealed.
Having a bluish effect. Cf. Warm, 8. (Paint.)
He was slain in cold blood after the fight was over.
— Sir W. Scott.

The relative absence of heat or warmth.
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.
— Dryden.
A morbid state of the animal system produced by exposure to cold or dampness; a catarrh. (Med.)

Cold sore: 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.

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