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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.

8. Not sensitive; not acute.

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.


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