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-- 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. -- Cold
slaw. See Cole slaw. -- 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.

Cold, n. 1.
The relative absence of heat or warmth.

2. The sensation produced by the escape
of heat; chilliness or chillness.

When she saw her lord prepared to part,

A deadly cold ran shivering to her heart.

Dryden.

3. (Med.) A morbid state of the
animal system produced by exposure to cold or dampness; a
catarrh.

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