2. Lacking the sensation of warmth; suffering from the absence of heat; chilly; shivering; as, to be cold.
3. Not pungent or acrid. "Cold plants." Bacon
4. Wanting in ardor, intensity, warmth, zeal, or passion; spiritless; unconcerned; reserved.
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. — 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
(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.
Cold sore (Med.), a vesicular eruption appearing about the mouth as the result of a cold, or in the
course of any disease attended with fever. — To leave one out in the cold, to overlook or neglect
him. [Colloq.]
Cold
(Cold), v. i. To become cold. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Cold-blooded
(Cold"-blood`ed) a.
