Cold

Cold - Other Definitions

• (n.) Deprived of heat, or having a low temperature; not warm or hot; gelid; frigid.
  
  
• (n.) Lacking the sensation of warmth; suffering from the absence of heat; chilly; shivering; as, to be cold.
  
  
• (n.) Not pungent or acrid.
  
  
• (n.) Wanting in ardor, intensity, warmth, zeal, or passion; spiritless; unconcerned; reserved.
  
  
• (n.) Unwelcome; disagreeable; unsatisfactory.
  
  
• (n.) Wanting in power to excite; dull; uninteresting.
  
  
• (n.) Affecting the sense of smell (as of hunting dogs) but feebly; having lost its odor; as, a cold scent.
  
  
• (n.) Not sensitive; not acute.
  
  
• (n.) Distant; -- said, in the game of hunting for some object, of a seeker remote from the thing concealed.
  
  
• (n.) Having a bluish effect. Cf. Warm, 8.
  
  
• (n.) The relative absence of heat or warmth.
  
  
• (n.) The sensation produced by the escape of heat; chilliness or chillness.
  
  
• (n.) A morbid state of the animal system produced by exposure to cold or dampness; a catarrh.
  
  
• (v. i.) To become cold.
  
  
• (adv.) In a cold manner; without warmth, animation, or feeling; with indifference; calmly.