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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.

Cool, n. A moderate state of
cold; coolness; -- said of the temperature of the air between hot
and cold; as, the cool of the day; the cool of the
morning or evening.

Cool, v. t. [imp. & p.
p. Cooled (?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Cooling.] 1. To make cool or cold; to
reduce the temperature of; as, ice cools water.

Send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his
finger in water, and cool my tongue.

Luke xvi. 24.

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.


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