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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.


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