2. Lacking the sensation of warmth; suffering from the
absence of heat; chilly; shivering; as, to be cold.
3. Not pungent or acrid. ``Cold plants.'' --Bacon
4. 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.
5. Unwelcome; disagreeable; unsatisfactory. ``Cold news for
me.'' ``Cold comfort.'' --Shak.
6. 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.
7. Affecting the sense of smell (as of hunting dogs) but
feebly; having lost its odor; as, a cold scent.
Smell this business with a sense as cold As is a
dead man's nose. --Shak.
9. Distant; -- said, in the game of hunting for some object,
of a seeker remote from the thing concealed.
10. (Paint.) Having a bluish effect. Cf. {Warm}, 8.
{Cold abscess}. See under {Abscess}.
{Cold blast} See under {Blast}, n., 2.
{Cold blood}. See under {Blood}, n., 8.
{Cold chill}, an ague fit. --Wright.
{Cold chisel}, a chisel of peculiar strength and hardness,
for cutting cold metal. --Weale.
{Cold cream}. See under {Cream}.
{In cold blood}, without excitement or passion; deliberately.
He was slain in cold blood after the fight was over.
--Sir W.
Scott.
{To give one the cold shoulder}, to treat one with neglect.
Syn: Gelid; bleak; frigid; chill; indifferent; unconcerned;
passionless; reserved; unfeeling; stoical.