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adjective

Cooling adj. Adapted to cool and refresh; allaying heat. "The cooling brook."

Cooling card, something that dashes hopes. (Obs.)

Cooling time (Law), such a lapse of time as ought, taking all the circumstances of the case in view, to produce a subsiding of passion previously provoked.

verb

Cool v. t. (past & past part. cooled; pres. part. cooling)

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."

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."

To cool the heels, to dance attendance; to wait, as for admission to a patron's house. (Colloq.)

Cool v. i.

To become less hot; to lose heat. "I saw a smith stand with his hammer, thus, the whilst his iron did on the anvil cool."

To lose the heat of excitement or passion; to become more moderate. "I will not give myself liberty to think, lest I should cool."

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Etymology of 'Cooling'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Cooling" Quotes from Famous Books

... the cooling draught, the priestess now addressed herself to her task. Gazing for an instant around the majestic temple in which her act of worship was to be performed, she began like some child of a long gone age to rear an altar. Selecting a few from the many boulders ...

— The Redemption of David Corson • Charles Frederic Goss

... Rage and pain glared in his gloomy gray eyes, and shook his clenched fists, resting on the arms of an easy chair. "Ten thousand red-hot devils are boring ten thousand holes through my foot," he said. "If you touch the pillow on my stool, I shall fly at your throat." He poured some cooling lotion from a bottle into a small watering-pot, and irrigated his foot as if it had been a bed of flowers. By way of further relief to the pain, he swore ferociously; addressing his oaths to himself, ...

— Heart and Science - A Story of the Present Time • Wilkie Collins

... numerous gardens, and invite To health and temperance, in the simple meal, Unstain'd with murder, undefil'd with blood, Unpoison'd with rich sauces, to provoke The unwilling appetite to gluttony. For this, the bulbous esculents their roots With sweetness fill; for this, with cooling juice The green herb spreads its leaves; and opening buds And flowers and seeds with various flavors tempts Th' ensanguined palate from its ...

— A Poetical Cook-Book • Maria J. Moss

... a courtyard, they were ushered upstairs into a spacious and well-lighted saloon, with enormous windows looking on one side into a courtyard, in the midst of which a fountain threw up jets of cooling water, and on the other, into a ...

— The Three Lieutenants • W.H.G. Kingston

... is to at once ascertain and remove the cause; aids in the treatment are vaginal douches and cooling lotions. ...

— The Four Epochs of Woman's Life • Anna M. Galbraith

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