Fanned with cool winds. --Milton.
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. --Goldsmith.
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.
--Hawthorne.
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. --Fielding.
Leaving a cool thousand to Mr. Matthew Pocket.
--Dickens.
Syn: Calm; dispassionate; self-possessed; composed;
repulsive; frigid; alienated; impudent.
Send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger
in water, and cool my tongue. --Luke xvi.
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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. --Shak.
{To cool the heels}, to dance attendance; to wait, as for
admission to a patron's house. [Colloq.] --Dryden.
I saw a smith stand with his hammer, thus, the
whilst his iron did on the anvil cool. --Shak.
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. --Congreve.