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ˈice-cold, a. [f. cold a. Cf. Du. ijskoud, G. eiskalt, ON. ískaldr.] As cold as ice.
a1000Boeth. Metr. xxvii. 3 Is-calde sæ. a1000Seafarer 19 Iscaldne wæᵹ. 1798Ct. Rumford in Phil. Trans. LXXXVIII. 94 The former quantity of ice-cold water. 1808W. Herbert Ella Rosenberg II. 123, I felt her ice-cold lips upon mine. 1887Bowen Virg. Ecl. viii. 66 The passionless heart of this ice-cold lover of mine. |