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Cool

a.
  1. Moderately cold; between warm and cold; lacking in warmth; producing or promoting coolness.
    Fanned with cool winds.
  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.
  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.
  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.
    Leaving a cool thousand to Mr. Matthew Pocket.

Cool

n.
  1. 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

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.

Phrases & Compounds

To cool the heels
to dance attendance; to wait, as for admission to a patron's house.

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.
  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.