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▪ I. cooling, vbl. n.|ˈkuːlɪŋ|
[f. cool v. + -ing1.]
1. a. The action of the verb cool. Also with -off.
a1340Hampole Psalter lvi. 2 In shadow of þi wengis..Þat is, in hilynge and kolynge of þi goednes and þi pite. c1440Promp. Parv. 87 Coolynge, frigefaccio. c1540in Vicary's Anat. (1888) App. 227 In the coolyng, putt in thiese thinges folowing. 1886Athenæum 4 Sept. 298/2 Shrinkage consequent on the earth's secular cooling. 1911Chambers's Jrnl. 1 July 494/1 Water which..affords them a ready means of ‘cooling-off’. 1947Science News IV. 51 The measurement of the steady cooling-off of the body. 1949Manch. Guardian Weekly 10 Feb. 14/2 The proposed bill..merely asks for a thirty-day ‘cooling off’ period. 1970Physics Bull. Mar. 99/2 The points put forward for discussion..included..a ‘cooling off’ period between school and university to allow school leavers more time to consider their plans.
b. fig.
1588Greene Perimedes 39 The disdaine of thy parentage..is a sufficient cooling to thee. 1640O. Sedgwicke Christs Counsell 69 Take heed of the first coolings.
2. attrib. and Comb., as cooling-place; cooling-board U.S. local, the board on which a dead body is laid out; cooling-cup, a contrivance for cooling liquids, consisting of a cup into which is plunged another containing a heat-absorbing substance, as a solution of ammonium nitrate; cooling-floor, a large shallow tank or cooler in which wort is cooled; cooling-pond, an open pond in which water is cooled after use in a steam-engine or an industrial process; cooling tower, a structure in which water heated for some industrial purpose is cooled for re-use.
1853W. G. Simms Sword & Distaff 224 He wouldn't care ef I was on my cooling-board to-morrow. 1896J. C. Harris Sister Jane 19, I don't want to be put on my cooling-board.
1591Percivall Sp. Dict., Enfriadera, a cooling-place.
1909Cent. Dict. Suppl., Cooling-pond. 1955J. H. Wellington S. Africa II. ii. xii. 182 As an illustration of the difficulty involved in using fuel resources in the absence of an adequate ‘cooling pond’, the use of the Witbank power station may be cited. 1962Listener 13 Dec. 1014/1 Some blue-green algae grow in the radio-active cooling-ponds of nuclear power stations.
1901W. W. F. Pullen Steam Engin. vi. 278 It is customary..to resort to some device by which the cooling water is itself cooled and used over again many times. A cooling tower is then used... It is simply an iron shell filled with porous terra cotta drain pipes stacked on end. 1933Archit. Rev. LXXIV. 167 Erecting concrete cooling towers in a modern super-power station. 1955Oxf. Jun. Encycl. VIII. 329/2 Where no such river is available, the hot water from the condensers is cooled in large concrete cooling towers, by being trickled over a series of large trays or ‘baffles’.
▪ II. ˈcooling, ppl. a.
[f. as prec. + -ing2.]
1. That cools or makes cool. spec.
a. Of medicines, etc.: Lowering the temperature of the blood, refrigerant.
b. Painting. Making less warm in colour; toning down warm colour.
1588Shakes. Tit. A. ii. iii. 14 The greene leaues quiuer with the cooling winde. 1671Milton Samson 626 Dire inflammation, which no cooling herb Or medicinal liquor can assuage. 1732Arbuthnot Rules of Diet 244 Pomegranates contain a Juice styptick, and extremely cooling. 1781Cowper Retirement 422 The stream that spreads Its cooling vapour o'er the dewy meads. c1790J. Imison Sch. Art ii. 61 Cooling crayons, composed of black and white, should succeed these, and melt into the hair. 1887R. N. Carey Uncle Max viii. 69, [I] left the..cooling drink beside the sick woman.
†2. cooling card: see card n.2 2 a. Obs.
1577Holinshed Chron. III. 188 A cooling card it was unto them, still to see ships arrived in the haven out of England, openlie before their faces. 1664Marquis of Worcester in Dircks Life viii. (1865) 137 It would..prove a cooling card to many, whose zeal otherwise would transport them. 1678Dryden Limberham i. i, Wood. [Aside.] That, besides her self, is a cooling Card.
3. That is becoming cooler.
1877J. Cook Boston Monday Lect., Concessions of Evolutionists, In the complex conditions of a cooling planet.
Hence ˈcoolingly adv., ˈcoolingness.
1855G. Meredith Shav. Shagpat 352 None of earth were like to them in silveriness, sweet coolingness. 1880Lady F. Dixie Across Patagonia i. 11 We are off again, with a slight breeze stealing coolingly over us. |