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coldn. Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: cold adj. Etymology: < cold adj. or its Germanic base (see discussion below); compare Middle High German kalt (occasional uses in modern German are apparently perceived as contextual uses of the adjective, and hence spelt with lower-case initial). Other West Germanic languages more typically show a cognate of the derivative formation chelde n.In Old English the word inflects as a strong noun, either neuter or masculine. It probably at least in part represents use as noun of the neuter of ceald cold adj. (compare hot n.1), although clear evidence for neuter gender is wanting. It is possible that the word may also partly represent a (masculine or neuter) derivative of the same Germanic base as cold adj. For the development of Middle English forms in ch- see discussion at cold adj. eOE tr. Bede (Tanner) iii. i.156 Þa he wæccende wæs, þa ne wiste he hwæt he gefelde cealdes æt his sidan licgan [L. sensit nescio quid frigidi suo lateri adiacere]. eOE (Royal) (1865) ii. xxxvii. 244 Hu mon scyle þone monnan, innan & utan, lacnian mid hatum & cealdum. OE (1992) ii. 56 Þonne þinceð þam synfullan þæt noht ne sie þæs hates ne þæs cealdes, ne þæs heardes ne þæs hnesces, ne þæs leofes ne ðæs laðes, þæt hine þonne mæge fram dryhtnes lufan adon. lOE Distichs of Cato (Trin. Cambr.) lxx, in (1972) 90 14 Forðon hira nauðer ne mæg bion æltewe buton oðrum, ðon ma ðe wæt mæg bion butan drygum, oþþe wearm buton cealdum, oððe leoht butan ðystrum. ?a1200 (?OE) (1896) 21 Þa teþ þoliȝean ne mæȝe ne hæte ne ceald and swyþest þa grindig teþ [read grindingteþ]. c1475 (c1445) R. Pecock (1921) 9 (MED) Þe office of þe v outward bodili wittis..is forto..touche hardnesse, neischnes, heet or coold present to þe touche. a1500 (Rawl. C.307) (1911) 12 (MED) When erthe goeth on erthe as colde opon colde. 1611 Prov. xxv. 13 As the cold of snow in the time of haruest, so is a faithfull messenger to them that send him: for he refresheth the soule of his masters. View more context for this quotation 1650 E. Leigh (ed. 3) 136/2 A Cramp-fish, a fish (they say) that bath such a benumming qualitie, that the cold of it will strike from the hook to the line, from the line to the goad, from the goad to the arm , from the arm to the body of the fisher, and so benumbe him. a1657 R. Loveday (1659) lx. 112 The same thing that corrects the intemperate heat of the Liver, increases the unnatural cold of the stomach. 1706 (new ed.) To Damask Wine, is to warm it a little, in order to take off the edge of the Cold and make it mantle. 1727 R. Bradley xviii. 370 Litter him well, lest the cold of the stable floor happen to distemper him. 1796 J. Moore II. xci. 556 She was suddenly chilled by the cold of her wet clothes. 1820 P. B. Shelley i. i. 21 The bright chains Eat with their burning cold into my bones. 1862 W. Collins I. 242 The cold of the marble floor struck through the narrow strip of matting laid down, parallel with the windows, as a footpath for passengers across the wilderness of the room. 1929 Jan. 18 Yes, I said newspapers! Nothing like them to insulate you against the cold of the ground. 1998 B. Lott (1999) 84 I held it with both hands,..the cold off the gun feeling like it'd burn through my fingers any second now. the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > coldness > [noun] > sensation of cold OE 8 Calde geþrungen wæron mine fet, forste gebunden. c1225 (?c1200) (Bodl.) 202 Þe rawen rahten of luue þurh euch lið of his limes & inwið bearnde of brune swa & cwakede as of calde. c1300 (Laud) (1868) 416 He greten ofte sore, Boþe for hunger and for kold. c1400 (c1378) W. Langland (Laud 581) (1869) B. xi. l. 276 Neither kirtel ne cote, þeigh þey for colde shulde deye. c1405 (c1385) G. Chaucer (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 1936 The coold of deeth þt hadde him ouercome. a1425 (a1325) (Galba) 28904 When þou sese any haue hunger or calde..Aw þe first do þine almus till. a1470 T. Malory (Winch. Coll. 13) (1990) III. 1211 Lat us kepe oure stronge-walled townys untyll they have hunger and colde, and blow on their nayles. 1530 J. Palsgrave 307/2 Chyveryng as one dothe for colde, frilleux. 1560 A. L. in tr. J. Calvin Epist. Sometime chilling and chatering with colde. 1565 A. Golding tr. Ovid ii. f. 13 The cold of death Strake to her heart, and closde her veines, and lastly stopt her breath. 1668 J. Dryden v. i. 60 As children..First try the water with their tender feet; Then, shuddring up with cold, step back again. 1681 J. Crowne iv. 58 The Blood..freezes with the cold of Death, And ne're returns, but leaves the face all pale. 1722 R. Wodrow III. viii. § 5 So benummed with Cold, that when they offered to write, their Hands would not serve them. 1786 R. Burns Twa Dogs xi, in 13 They maun starve o' cauld and hunger. 1828 W. Scott 2nd Ser. xxxviii The mother and infant..perishing with cold. 1878 30 Jan. 10/3 Mr. Slade..confirms the account as an eye-witness of the deplorable state of the population south of the Balkans: wandering about in the snow, dying of cold and hunger. a1911 D. G. Phillips (1917) II. xxiv. 538 The ache of this cold, like the cold of death, was an agony. 1938 G. T. Basden (1966) xxxiii. 431 The frog had become stiff with cold and could scarcely move at all. 2008 E. Strosser & M. Prince ix. 167 The commanders seemed to be paralyzed as their troops slowly died from cold and hunger. the mind > emotion > absence of emotion > [noun] > coldness or lack of warm feeling OE 106 Soþ þæt wile cyþam [read cyþan], þonne we us gemittað on þam mæstan dæge,..secgað þonne ryhta fela, eal swylce under heofonum gewearð hates ond cealdes, godes oþþe yfles. a1375 (c1350) (1867) l. 907 (MED) Sum-time it hentis me wiþ hete as hot as ani fure, but quicliche so kene a cold comes þer-after. c1450 (?a1405) J. Lydgate Complaint Black Knight (Fairf.) 229 in (1934) ii. 392 This ys the colde of ynwarde high dysdeyn, Colde of dyspite, and colde of cruel hate. a1500 (?c1425) (1936) 92 To faste..in wynter, for to chaste the colde of infidelite and of malice. 1583 A. Golding tr. J. Calvin To Cath. Ch. sig. ¶.iiii The arguments..haue beene oftentimes chafed and rechafed, yet are they so starke and stiffe for colde, that they haue no force nor might. 1616 S. Ward (1627) 52 Such as forsake the best fellowship, and waxe strange to holy assemblies..how can they but take cold? 1648 Bp. J. Hall v. 6 Ah my Lord God, what heats and colds do I feel in my soul? 1668 J. Flavell 207 It is because we suffer our hearts to take cold again. 1712 R. Steele No. 300. ⁋3 This valetudinary Friendship, subject to so many Heats and Colds. 1735 S. Bowden II. 118 How long will this dumb Quietism hold, And when Love's gentle Heat dissolve the Cold? 1793 C. Smith I. v. 111 I am sure, Bessy, we want something to keep the cold of fear out of ours [sc. our stomachs]. a1853 F. W. Robertson (1855) 1st Ser. ii. 23 The cold of human desertion. 1869 Mar. 561 There is an absence of true warmth; the cold of hatred is present instead. 1913 V. Z. Post vii. 130 The darkness and cold of despair settled down on me and enshrouded me. 1951 J. Steinbeck 39 You, Victor, would die in a cold of hatred. 2004 D. Hauger 258 Tao was the winter in her life, and the cold in her heart. 4. the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > coldness > [noun] eOE (Corpus Cambr. 422) ii. 305 Ac forhwon fealleð se snaw.., wæstmas getigeð, geðyð hie and geðreatað, ðæt hie ðrage beoð cealde geclungne? OE 264 Ne bið þær liget ne laðlic storm, winter ne þunerrad ne wiht cealdes. OE 131 Hwæt, her [sc. in hell] hat and ceald hwilum mencgað. 1340 (1866) 139 He soffreþ and honger, an þorst, and chald and hot. a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus (BL Add. 27944) (1975) I. v. lxvi. 288 Heeres of þe heed..[beþ] imaad..to kepe and saue þe brayn from coolde. a1400 (a1325) (Vesp.) 8620 (MED) Mi barn es ded..Caald [a1400 Fairf. calde, a1400 Gött. cold] has slan it. ?a1425 (Egerton) (1889) 65 At þe north syde of þe werld, whare comounly es mare intense calde. ?1518 A. Barclay sig. Av Pastoures..drawe to cotes, for to eschewe the colde. 1579 E. Spenser Feb. 3 The kene colde blowes through my beaten hide. 1611 Gen. viii. 22 Seed-time and haruest, and cold, and heat, and Summer, and Winter, and day and night, shall not cease. View more context for this quotation 1626 F. Bacon §68 Heat and Cold are Natures two Hands, whereby she chiefly worketh. a1684 J. Evelyn anno 1667 (1955) III. 478 The cold so intense, as hardly a leafe on a tree. 1725 D. Defoe ii. 76 English Wheat..will by no means thrive for want of Moisture and Cold. 1794 I. 157 (Jam.) 'Tis not sic cauld that makes me cry. 1858 D. Lardner (new ed.) 308 The greatest natural cold of which any record has been kept, was that observed by Professor Hanstean between Krasnojarsk and Nishne-Udmiks in 55° N. lat., which he states amounted to −55° (Reaum. ?) = −91·75 F. 1895 H. G. Wells xiv. 141 The cold..overcame me. I shivered, and a deadly nausea seized me. 1917 E. Wharton 4 Feb. (1988) 390 Please tilt me-ward by return of post, & meanwhile think of me so fondly that I shall feel it a little through the cold. 1961 J. Carew 37 The grown-ups waited impatiently, stamping their feet and hunching their shoulders against the cold. 2007 Dec. 62/2 Reports such as this make it sound as if the outdoors itself—a snow slope, a river, extreme heat or cold—killed an innocent human. the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > cold weather > [noun] ?c1400 (c1380) G. Chaucer tr. Boethius (BL Add. 10340) (1868) ii. pr. ii. l. 865 Þe erþe haþ eke leue to apparaile þe visage of þe erþe..with floures..and to confounde hem somtyme wiþ raynes and wiþ coldes. ?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 133 In þe moneþ of Maij or september..ar noȝt clowdez ne pouryngz, tonitruez ne hetez ne coldez intense þat hurteþ pacientez. a1500 ( J. Yonge tr. (Rawl.) (1898) 142 (MED) The coldis and the hetis of the Somer and the wyntyr helpyth to the Spryngynge and the bourgynge of naturall thyngis. 1570 B. Googe tr. T. Kirchmeyer Spirituall Husbandry i. in tr. f. 64v Stormes of raine, or heate, or frostie coldes. 1626 F. Bacon §744 Wee see, that in great Colds, one can scarce draw his Breath. 1664 J. Evelyn Kalendarium Hortense 82 in [Plants] not perishing but in excessive Colds. 1705 J. Addison 72 The Colds of Winter, and the Heats of Summer, are equally incapable of molesting you. 1796 J. Morse (new ed.) I. 97 One hundred winters or colds. 1876 E. A. Freeman (ed. 2) IV. xvii. 62 The colds and storms of January did not hinder him from sending messengers. 1919 Sept. 822/2 He had to go to the barn and hitch up his horse and in a biting cold and hardly awake jog along on his mission of mercy. 1968 June 46/1 In the biting weather of Minneapolis, a freezing cold which forced Paul Bunyan to don ear muffs, judo men were put through strenuous exercises. 2000 J. Tarr (2002) ii. xl. 259 But after the long mild spell ended and the colds and storms of winter closed in once more, Rain could not wander so far afield. 5. the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > fever > [noun] > ague > cold stage of a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus (BL Add. 27944) (1975) I. vii. xxxviii. 386 And comounliche in þese [cotidiane] feueres comeþ hedeache,..heuynesse of body, furst þe colde [L. frigus] & þeraftir þe hete, and euery day axesse. 1578 T. Brasbridge sig. D They are healed with this herbe, that are sicke of a quartane, or other Agues that come with a colde. 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny I. 183 Vexed at certain houres..with the pestiferous heats and shaking colds of the feuer. a1645 W. Browne tr. M. Le Roy (1647) v. ii. 346 The most violent cold of an Ague puts not a man into such an estate as he was, by the excess of his passion. 1674 tr. R. Minderer iv. 31 As soon as any begins to droop, grows melancholy, faint, and feeble in his limbs,..finding head-ach, interrupted heats and colds. 1700 R. Johnson p. v Acrimonious and flatulent Vapours, may be the Cause of all Ague-Fits, with all their Symptoms, as in the beginning, Horror, Chilness, Cold, Shaking, &c. then follows Reaching, Yawning, and Vomiting, &c. the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > high or low temperature > [noun] > low temperature the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > high or low temperature > have high or low temperature [verb (intransitive)] > low temperature ?a1400 (a1338) R. Mannyng (Petyt) ii. 60 He..died þer for colde in Lumbardie o chance. a1470 T. Malory (Winch. Coll. 13) (1990) III. 1240 Thys wounde on youre hede hath caught overmuch coulde! a1513 R. Fabyan (1516) I. ccxii. f. cxxxii Swanus..went to Iherusalem,..and dyed by the waye of Colde, that he had taken of goynge barefote. 1540 R. Jonas tr. E. Roesslin i. f. lvii By desease in the brestes, or by takyng of colde in the same. 1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens i. 3 Sothrenwood stieped or soked in oyle, is profitable to rubbe or annoint the body, against the benomming of members taken with colde, and the brusing or shyuering coldes that come by fittes, like as in Agues. 1597 W. Langham 50 Cough of colde, anoint the chest with oyle de Bay. 1646 T. Juxon (1999) (modernized text) 134 My Lord General Essex died at his house..of an apoplex, having been sick about a week, taking cold in hunting the stag. 1690 S. Sewall 11 Sept. (1973) I. 266 Having also found that sitting so near the out-side of the House causeth me in Winter-time to take cold in my head, I removed into Gallery. 1762 (Royal Soc.) 52 344 In the winter of the year 1759, upon taking cold, he was afflicted with peripneumonic and pleuritic symptoms. 1800 W. Angus p. xxxii Scotticisms... He has got the cold. 1842 Ld. Tennyson Morte d'Arthur in (new ed.) II. 11 I fear My wound hath taken cold, and I shall die. 1872 W. Black iv. 40 I will not allow Bell to catch her death of cold. 1913 (National Assoc. Study & Prevention Tuberculosis) 259 Of the 13 cases not previously subject and taking vaccine, 3, or 23 per cent., took cold. 1922 C. S. Lewis Diary 6 Sept. in (1991) 104 Very tired and full of cold. 2000 A. Taylor (2003) i. 14 ‘Don't just stand there,’ she said. ‘Come in before I catch my death of cold.’ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > disorder of respiratory organs > [noun] > common cold or catarrh the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > disorder of respiratory organs > have disorder of respiratory organ [verb (intransitive)] > catch cold ?a1425 (?1373) (1938) f. 32 (MED) Yf a man haue a wekyd colde, let this erbe [etc.]. 1537 (1836) iv. 91 If I take any cold, incontinent the lax commythe agayne. 1597 W. Langham 49 There is no better remedie against the diseases of the sinewes, coldes, falling downe of humors, ache in the eares, diseases of the kidneys that come of colde, then this oyle is. 1600 W. Shakespeare iii. ii. 178 A horson cold sir, a cough sir. View more context for this quotation 1679 No. 1436/4 His Majesty..has been indisposed for some days by a Cold he took. 1751 S. Johnson No. 154. ⁋19 All whom I entreat to sing are troubled with colds. 1751 E. Haywood IV. xxiii. 287 Lady Loveit having got a cold, had complained of some little disorder. 1886 J. Morley III. 17 The people of..St. Kilda believed that the arrival of a ship in the harbour inflicted on the islanders epidemic colds in the head. 1937 Apr. 100/1 (advt.) These inexpensive tissues help protect your family and friends. For Kleenex holds germs, thus checks the spread of colds. 1987 R. Hall (1990) ii. xxxii. 171 He sneezed. There, he added as further proof of the disadvantages he had to rise above. Now I've got a cold. the world > health and disease > ill health > animal disease or disorder > disorders of animals generally > [noun] > other disorders 1486 sig. bjv And she flye therwith, and take blood, and coolde ther vppon. 1566 T. Blundeville Order curing Horses Dis. xxvi. f. 22, in According as the colde whiche the horse hath taken is newe, or older, greate, or small, and also according as humors do abounde in his heade, and as suche humors be thicke or thin, so is the disease more or lesse daungerous. 1610 G. Markham i. xxxviii. 74 The cold or poze in a horses head. 1726 N. B. 113/2 It proceeds from a Cold, and from all the same Causes that a Cold proceeds from; as exposing a Horse to the cold Air, and riding of him at that time into cold Water, or letting him drink cold Water when he is hot. 1863 18 July 488/1 Owned horses take cold, throw out splints or curbs. 1903 F. Simpson 261/1 If the kittens have bad colds or any trifling ailment, I indulge them with a little finely cut up raw beef. 1966 (Farmers Weekly Farm Women's Club) 24 It was a major calamity when the hens caught colds... They sneezed and made ruttling noises in their throats. 1991 A. Nikiforuk ix. 147 ‘Horse colds’..preceded epidemics of ‘knock-me-down fever’ or ‘the new acquaintance’ in 1732, 1762 and 1775. Phrases P1. to catch a cold (also to catch cold). the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > disorder of respiratory organs > have disorder of respiratory organ [verb (intransitive)] > catch cold c1460 (?c1400) 631 Aftir his hete he cauȝte a cold, þurh þe nyȝtis eyr. 1539 R. Morison tr. Frontinus i. xii. sig. Diiiv What, arte thou amased to here that oone of so many thousandes hath caught colde? 1616 B. Jonson Epicœne iii. ii, in I. 554 One that has catch'd a cold, sir, and can scarce bee heard sixe inches off. View more context for this quotation 1747 J. Wesley p. xxiii Obstructed Perspiration (vulgarly called catching Cold) is one great Source of Diseases. 1849 E. Bulwer-Lytton I. iii. iii. 110 You certainly havecaught cold: you sneezed three times together. 1931 M. A. Dormie 46 I caught a filthy cold, which lasted three solid days. 1992 Spring 8/1 What happens if a singer catches cold? 2004 F. Lawrence p. xi Where I had been living, suffering from V and D..(vomiting and diarrhoea) was as common as catching a cold. a1563 J. Bale (1969) ii. 1266 We must helpe yowre state, msters, to uphold, Or elles owre profyttes wyll cache a wynter colde. 1775 18 Feb. 146/1 She snatched the watch out of my pocket, I told her if she did not give it me again she would catch cold, meaning she would repent of it. 1788 F. Grose (ed. 2) You will catch cold at that; a vulgar threat or advice to desist from an attempt. 1823 J. Badcock 202 ‘Catch cold (to) at a thing’—to have the worst of betting, of a bargain, or contest—ruination sometimes. 1948 G. Heyer xii. 190 Putting away a Dook is coming it too strong... Mark my words, Sam, you'll catch cold at this! 1977 4 Sept. 14/7 (heading) Do not catch a cold with gold. 2005 C. Newbrook 54 I want every box ticked, mind you—we don't want to catch a cold on this one. P2. the world > life > the body > secretory organs > secretion > [noun] > fluid secretion > humours > quality arising from 1594 R. Carew tr. J. Huarte xv. 275 If with a sharp wit, she be froward, curst, & wayward, she is in the first degree of cold and moist. 1660 J. Harding tr. Paracelsus ii. 105 That you may know the Degree of Cold, besides that which is Elemental; understand it thus: Whatsoever Congeals humours, possesseth the fourth Degree. 1665 R. Hooke 38 That mark I fix at a convenient place of the stem, to make it capable of exhibiting very many degrees of cold, below that which is requisite to freeze water. 1676 M.D. tr. F. Bacon 26 Our feeling cannot be sensible of any degree of heat in inanimate substances, but they differ in their degrees of cold, for Wood is not so cold as Metals. 1694 (Royal Soc.) 18 190 In the Column of the Thermometer, — denotes degrees of Cold below the freezing Point. 1796 R. Walker p. vii Blowing on the bulb of a thermometer to hasten the evaporation [of vitriolic æther], produces about thirty degrees of cold; rectified wine, thus treated, about twelve. 1839 42 The mean degree of cold is 7° below zero. 1883 Dec. 52/1 I've always heard that ten degrees of cold below zero destroyed the fruit germs. 1909 S. Hedin I. xiii. 162 It blows and snows, with 18 degrees of cold. 1937 (Federal Writers' Project) 227 It is not a large pool, but a swimmer can stroke from almost cold water into hot water and through various degrees of cold and warmth between the two extremes. 1999 J. L. Chapman & M. J. Reiss (ed. 2) ix. 105/2 Different organisms can withstand different degrees of cold: some plants can tolerate temperatures well below −60°C. 2012 C. D. Reese (ed. 2) xxiii. 234 Clothing should be selected to suit the degree of cold, level of activity, and job design. the mind > attention and judgement > inattention > ignoring, disregard > ignore, disregard [verb (transitive)] the world > action or operation > manner of action > carelessness > be careless or heedless of [verb (transitive)] > neglect 1839 P. Morrill et al. Memorial on Banks & Banking 19 in The currency having been reduced to the ‘just and proper limit’ to supply only one of these demands, the bank debtors, (with many others) were ‘left out in the cold’—to the amount of 37 7-10 of all the bank debt. 1842 1 July Poor deluded Bell was left out in the cold! 1861 July (Farmer) The ‘Assents’ continue to come in freely..and the appearances are that at the closing of the books..there will be few shares or bonds left out in the cold. 1886 D. C. Murray xx. 153 A distant relative..and he left her out in the cold. 1915 W. S. Maugham xxvii. 116 I have a sort of sympathy for Mahomet, I regret that you should have left him out in the cold. 1943 H. Read iii. 44 Except for poets laureate and political propagandists like Virgil and Pope, they [sc. poets] have always been left out in the cold. 1993 8 Feb. (Business Outlook Suppl.) 16/1 Independent contractors..are also left out in the cold when it comes to other traditional benefits of employment. 1963 ‘J. le Carré’ ii. 19 One can't be out in the cold all the time; one has to come in from the cold. 1964 10 Oct. 27/4 The commissar..imported another [baseball] club from Cuba. The Cubans, if you'll forgive the weather reversal in the idea, were glad to come in from the cold. They..promptly defected. 1971 31 Jan. 10/7 Bank shares, for so long the orphans of the stock market, started coming in from the cold last week. 1985 25 Feb. 8/2 Naturism is a leisure activity that is coming in from the cold... Membership of the Oxford Club has boomed. 1988 M. Moon iv. 112 Gay people began ‘coming in from the cold’ in large numbers in the fifties and sixties. 1996 29 Dec. 11/2 For the first time in 60 years, architects have come in from the cold—no longer a profession trapped in paranoid isolation..but one that has suddenly been propelled centre stage. 2004 31 July a17/5 Colonel Qaddafi brought Libya in from the cold..because he was afraid of losing his grip on power. Compounds C1. General attributive and objective with participial adjectives and verbal nouns. 1826 M. R. Mitford II. 173 That..cold-braving, shade-seeking plant. 2006 (Nexis) 8 Mar. (Hotsheet section) 13F While the deck door was open for cold-braving gazers, it is understandably out of service for seating. 1740 T. Short 198 When a dayly Headach, or frequent cold catching in the head afflicts and imbitters the Life of any Person. 1824 M. R. Mitford I. 113 The clothes-spoiling, the cold-catching. 1942 9 Mar. 71 Sunny days, sloppy days, cold-catching days—days when you wonder what Billy should wear, how to dress Sally, and should you take that umbrella? 2006 T. A. Hicks iii. 28 One theory about cold-catching still circulates today. For centuries, people have thought that being exposed to cold temperatures caused colds. 1885 Mar. 309 One drachm of paregoric elixir and the same quantity of ammonia in a wine-glass of water, form the best cold cure in the world. 1954 I. Murdoch iv. 62 I could get free board and lodging in exchange for being a guinea pig in a cold-cure experiment. 1969 21 Feb. 10/7 Several cold cures and cough syrups on public sale contain phenylpropanolamine. 2002 (Nexis) 29 Jan. 6 Shoppers at supermarket giants Safeway have snapped up more cold-cure products at their Ayr store than anywhere else in the country. 1731 J. Trapp tr. Virgil Georgicks i, in tr. Virgil I. 118 That we by sure Prognosticks might foreknow The Heats, the Rains, and Cold-producing Winds. 1889 6 July 2/3 The aggregate daily cold-producing effect. 1967 16 Sept. 63 (advt.) Only Frigidaire offers the current-saving Meter-Miser, simplest cold-producing mechanism ever built. 2007 J. M. Helms xi.144 Too many cold-producing foods will slow down digestion. 1379 No. 1. i. iii. lf. 6v Wicked ayr or grevaunce, or cold takyng. ?1550 T. Elyot f. 27v He that is robbed and loseth his coate, where he hath no moo, if he had leauer lament hym selfe, than to looke aboute hym, and prouyde howe to escape frome colde takynge..woldest thou not thynke hym to be a naturall foole. 1627 R. Sanderson 388 That cold-taking [is] but the occasion of the Ague. 1725 J. Colbatch (ed. 4) 13 Upon Accidents, or Cold-taking, the Distemper will be apt to return. 1859 W. A. Alcott lxix. 258 Cold-taking and Consumption. 1914 J. Wright & H. Smith xi. 308 It must be left to the judgment and the conscientiousness of the physician to put the upper air passages in proper order to diminish the frequency of cold-taking in his patient. C2. Instrumental, with past participial adjectives. Chiefly literary. 1855 F. W. Faber xix. 293 The leaves may be cold-crumpled and frost-bitten; but the tree is still green. a1657 G. Daniel Trinarchodia: Henry V cclxxx, in (1878) IV. 171 The cold-drench't Soyle Verdant with Glorie. 1864 E. B. Pusey iv. 229 False Christs..were darkness cast, where the true Light was obstructed; fantastic, cold-engendered, fleeting, parhelia around the Sun of Righteousness. 1929 R. A. Daly in K. F. Mather (1967) 108 There is evident need of correlation between two utterly different processes in widely separated parts of our dramatic earth—between cold-engendered glaciation and the growth of the warmth-loving corals. 2006 14 On 1st, cold-engendered ailments may trouble you. 1626 T. Hawkins tr. N. Caussin I. i. 23 If a little Planet happen to be eclypsed, who can tell the newes thereof, but some Coldfoundred Mathematician..in the shady obscurityes of the night. 1800 R. Bloomfield Autumn in 63 The fire-side..warms the blood Of cold-nipt weaklings of the latter brood. 1826 H. H. Wilson tr. 93 Her soft cheek was paler than the leaf Cold-nipped and shrivelled. 1906 tr. R. Donn Winter Song in Apr. 442 Cold-nipt with every wind that blows. a1849 J. C. Mangan (1859) 443 And such doom each drees, Till, hunger-gnawn, And cold-slain, he at length sinks there. 1596 R. Linche Dom Diego in sig. F4v That long hath knockt cold-staruen at thy dore. 1856 E. O'Riley Jrnl. Tour to Karen-ni 8 Dec. in (1862) 32 179 The Jemadar reported that one of the elephants had been cold-struck. 1878 3 243 Death may take place from syncope, as happens when the animal is cold-struck. 1908 (War Office) 319 Where the days are very hot and the nights equally cold, these animals [sc. horses and camels] are often observed to be ‘cold struck’, stiff all over. C3. the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > [adjective] > proof against cold 1808 Mar. 135/1 A hole dug into the ground, to a certain depth, is both heat-proof, and cold-proof. 1856 E. K. Kane I. xxvii. 354 A nearly cold-proof covering. 1935 Oct. 56A Few motorists know that winter motor oil must not only be cold–proof but heat–proof. 2006 Nov. 92/1 As we don our fetching cold-proof cloaks, complete with fur-lined hoods and gloves, I'm in hysterics. 1916 Sept. 374/2 All of the men ‘caught cold’ within this period, though some threw off the effects of the cold virus within a few hours. 1991 17 Oct. i. 13/2 Most cold viruses are transmitted from the nose to the hands of the person with the cold to the hands and then the nose of the unintentional recipient. 2007 25 June 8/4 Some studies suggested that echinacea is less effective against rhinovirus one of the most ubiquitous cold viruses. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2012; most recently modified version published online June 2022). coldadj.Etymology: Old English Anglian cald (West Saxon ceald ), corresponding to Old Frisian and Old Saxon kald (Middle Low German kold , Middle Dutch cold , cout(d-) , Low German kold , koold , kool , Dutch koud , West Frisian kâd , North Frisian kuld , kould , Satl. kôld , Wangeroog kôl , Heligoland kûl , East Frisian kold ), Old High German chalt , kalt , (Middle High German, modern German kalt ), Old Norse kald-r , (Norwegian kald , Swedish kall , Danish kold ), Gothic kald-s < Old Germanic *kalˈdo-z , originally a participial formation (corresponding to Greek words in -τός , Latin -tus ) from Old Germanic verb-stem kal- to be cold, frigēre , cognate with Latin gel- in gelu , gelidus , Old Church Slavonic golatŭ ice. Middle English and modern cold is in origin a midland form, < Anglian cald , later cāld , whence also, with a retained, Scots cauld , north English caud , caad ; the Saxon and Kentish ceald survived in the south to the 14th cent. as cheald adj. and n., cheld, chald. (The affinities of the various words belonging to this root are here exhibited for reference from their respective places. I. from stem kal- : i. simply: 1. vb. intransitive kal-an , kôl , kalans : compare Old Norse kala , Old English calan , whence acale adj. 2. n. kal-i-z , Old English cęle , cięle , chill n.; thence chill adj., chill v., chilled adj., chilling n., chilly adj., chilliness n. II. with suffix -d : 3. adjective kal-d-oz , Old English cald , ceald , cold n., cauld n., cheald adj. and n. Thence 4. noun cold n. 5. noun kald-în- , Old High German chaltî(n , German kälte , Old English cieldu , Middle English †chelde n. 6. verb intransitive kald-ôjan , Old Saxon caldôn , Old High German chaltên , Old English caldian , cealdian , to cold v.; thence acold v. III. from ablaut stem kôl- : 7. adjective kôl-uz , Old English cól cool adj., cooly adj., coolness n.; and with transition to jo- inflection, Old High German chuoli , German kühle . Thence 8. noun cool n.1 9. verb intransitive kôlôjan , Old Saxon côlôn , Old English côlian to cool v.1; thence acool v., adjective acold adj. 10. verb transitive kôljan , Old English cœlan , célan , to keel v.1; thence vb. †akele v. Several other formations occur in the other languages. Old Norse and Low German have also a weak-grade stem kuld ( < ˈglto), whence Old Norse n. kuldi, Low German -küllen (sik verküllen) < kuldjan; of this no derivatives occur in English). I. literally. 1. The proper adjective expressing a well-known quality of the air or of other substances exciting one of the primary physical sensations, due to the abstraction of heat from the surface of the body: of a temperature sensibly lower than that of the living human body. Admitting degrees of intensity ( colder, coldest). the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > cold weather > [adjective] c950 John xviii. 18 Stodon..æt gloedum forðon cald wæs and wearmdon hia. c1000 (Corpus Cambr.) xviii. 18 And wyrmdon hig, for þam hit wæs ceald. c1160 John xviii. 18 And wermdan hye, for-þan hit wæs cheald. a1400 (a1325) (Vesp.) l. 15910 Þe night it was ful caald. c1400 (Roxb.) viii. 29 Wheder þe weder sall be calde or hate. c1440 86 Coolde [1499 colde], frigidus. 1483 51 A Calde plase, frigidarium. 1526 W. Bonde iii. sig. BBBvii In ye colde wynter and foule wether. 1576 A. Fleming tr. Erasmus in 352 Without hoare frostes, without snowe, and such like colde meteors. a1616 W. Shakespeare (1623) i. i. 103 When Vertues steely bones Lookes bleake i'th cold wind. View more context for this quotation 1709 No. 24 A cold Morning. 1774 O. Goldsmith VII. 161 In the cold regions of the north. 1815 J. Smith II. 59 If the winters and springs be dry, they are mostly cold. 1880 A. Geikie (new ed.) v. xxxi. 349 Round the poles..the climates are coldest. the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > coldness > [adjective] the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > coldness > [adjective] > making cold or cool > causing sensation of coldness c1290 (1887) 183 So cold ase a ston. 1297 (1724) 1 Welles swete and colde. 1576 A. Fleming 231 (margin) Blowe hot and colde breath out of one mouth. 1667 J. Milton x. 851 Outstretcht he lay, on the cold ground. View more context for this quotation 1771 T. Smollett II. 204 To hazard a thrust of cold iron with his antagonist. 1796 H. Macneill ii. 14 Wi' the cauld ground for his bed. 1816 W. Scott Old Mortality iii, in 1st Ser. III. 69 Try him with the cold steel. 1834 F. Marryat II. xiv. 247 Others darted cold shot at us. the world > life > death > dead person or the dead > [adjective] the world > life > the body > dead body > [adjective] > condition of the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > coldness > [adjective] > of body, esp. in death the world > physical sensation > physical sensibility > physical insensibility > dullness of sense perception > dull (the senses) [verb (transitive)] > stun the mind > mental capacity > expectation > surprise, unexpectedness > surprise, astonish [verb (transitive)] a1400 (a1325) (Trin. Cambr.) l. 7061 Þere mony modir son was colde. 14.. 106 He lay cold dedde as any stan. c1405 (c1385) G. Chaucer (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 1918 Now in his colde graue. c1450 (C.) 1149 When he sawe þe bodyes colde Of þe knyghtys. c1540 (?a1400) 7303 Kild all to kold dethe. 1546 J. Heywood ii. vii. sig. K I wold Thy toung were coolde. 1602 J. Marston ii. iv. sig. Ev Knowing my fathers trunke scarce colde. 1668 R. L'Estrange tr. F. G. de Quevedo y Villegas (1708) 99 Solacing her self with her Gallant, before her Husband was thorough cold in the Mouth. 1671 (Royal Soc.) 5 2027 The separated Heart of a Cold Animal. 1752 S. Johnson No. 190. ⁋6 The cold hand of the angel of death. 1805 W. Scott ii. xxi. 50 Then Deloraine, in terror, took From the cold hand the mighty book. 1829 22 July I want to lay out [this candidate] as cold as a wedge. 1847 W. T. Porter 45 He picked up an ole axe helve an gin me a wipe aside the hed that laid me cole fur a while. 1847 J. M. Field 93 It is ‘bound’ to lay every thing in the way of architecture west of the Alleghanies ‘out cold’. 1884 ‘M. Twain’ xxxvii. 317 It was the sudden surprise of it that knocked us so kind of cold. 1896 G. Ade xvii. 159 Here's somethin' that'll knock you cold. 1905 R. E. Beach v. 127 Some Polack..laid out the quartermaster cold. 1928 F. N. Hart iii. 98 ‘What did you do?’ ‘Do? I don't know what I did. It knocked me cold.’ 1930 P. G. Wodehouse iv. 115 ‘Held them spellbound.’ ‘Knocked 'em, eh?’ ‘Cold,’ said young Tuppy. ‘Not a dry eye.’ 1944 iv. 93 The boxer who is not at the peak of training is likely to be laid cold. a1530 W. Bonde (1531) iii. f. Clxxxviv As the lyght of ye nyght a colde & a bareyn lyght. 1859 J. M. Jephson & L. Reeve ix. 139 Almost dazzled by the moon's cold rays. 1908 S. E. White xlvii. 353 I'll put Heinzman in the pen too. I've got it on him, cold. 1921 ‘I. Hay’ ix. 166 Strung about as we were, he had us cold. 1924 C. E. Mulford xix. 213 What you doin'? I got you cold. 1928 F. E. Baily xix Cynthia's lapping like an angel. You've got London cold. 2. the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > coldness > [adjective] > relatively without heat 1725 N. Robinson 222 Having Recourse to the Cold Bath..This Action of Cold Bathing. 1800 tr. E. J. B. Bouillon-Lagrange II. 111 Nitric acid dissolves copper well, even cold. 1833 N. Arnott (ed. 5) II. 46 In a clear night the objects on the surface of the earth radiate heat..they consequently soon become colder. 1853 C. McIntosh I. 473 Cold pits for preserving vegetables during winter. 1891 at Cold Mod. The sun is supposed to be growing colder through loss of its heat. the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > coldness > [adjective] > cool > heated and allowed to cool the world > food and drink > food > meal > [noun] > meal by type of food a1240 Sawles Warde in 251 Þat fur ham forbearneð al to colen calde. a1475 (Sloane) (1862) 17 When hit is colde, leche hit with knyves..and messe hit forthe on schyves. ?1578 W. Patten 84 Of a dish, az a colld Pigeon or so. 1759 (ed. 6) 227 It was succeeded..by a prodigious cold collation. 1856 R. W. Emerson xvii. 295 The story of Walter Scott's..slipping out every day..to the Swan Inn, for a cold cut and porter. 1883 ‘G. Lloyd’ II. xxix. 149 Picked away daintily at his cold chicken. 3. the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > coldness > [adjective] > affected with or having sensation of cold 1570 P. Levens sig. Si/2 Could to be, frigescere. a1616 W. Shakespeare (1623) iv. iv. 33 When I am cold, he heates me with beating. View more context for this quotation 1870 E. S. Phelps xviii. 273 ‘I grew cauld to my shoes.’ 1884 F. M. Crawford (ed. 2) I. 21 One moment you are in danger of being too cold. 1846 G. E. Day tr. J. F. Simon II. 256 Intermittent fever..towards the end of the cold stage. the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > earth or soil > soil qualities > [adjective] > cold for lack of drainage 1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville xv. xx. 496 In Asturia in Spain is scarce of wyne, of whete, and of oyle: for the londe is colde. 1420 iii. 1050 The colde or weetisshe lande most sowen be. 1626 F. Bacon §665 It sheweth the Earth to be very Cold. 1649 W. Blith xiii. 75 Sad and moyst strong Clay and cold. 1665 (Royal Soc.) 1 92 Cold weeping Ground. 1806 G. Gregory I. 514 The worst soil is a cold heavy clay. 1813 H. Davy iv. 155 Many soils are popularly distinguished as cold. 1833 37 209 On such a cold and lean soil the emotions of domesticity wither. 1877 Pendleton 102 Clay soils are cold. the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > characteristics > [adjective] > other characteristics the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > high or low temperature > [adjective] > low temperature 1569 R. Grafton II. 454 Muche vexed with colde diseases. II. figurative. †6. the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > coldness > [adjective] > in old physiology c1050 Byrhtferth's Handboc in (1885) 8 299 Eorðe ys ceald & drigge. 1340 R. Rolle 767 Þan waxes his kynde wayke and calde. a1400 (a1325) (Vesp.) l. 3563 Quen þat sua bicums ald, His blode þan wexus dri and cald. c1400 i. iii. 12 Oon of þe men is of an hoot complexioun & a moist, þat oþer of a cold complexioun & a drie. 1551 W. Turner sig. P vv The vertues of Chokewede..Galene writeth that it is colde and drye in the fyrste degree. 1597 J. Gerard ii. 659 His roote, is colde and drie. 1626 F. Bacon §701 Bole-Arminicke is the most Cold of them; And..Terra Lemnia is the most Hot. 1707 J. Floyer 391 The Meat produces cold spirits. 1732 J. Arbuthnot i. 257 They are fitter for old People, and cold Constitutions, than the young and sanguine. the world > physical sensation > taste and flavour > insipidity > [adjective] 1585 H. Llwyd tr. Pope John XXI (new ed.) sig. Y iij Of these .iiii. cold sedes, Lettyse, Purslayne, white poppye and sanders. 1609 W. B. tr. i. xxxi. f. 38v Bitter grapes are cold, and doe binde the belly. 7. the mind > emotion > absence of emotion > [adjective] > cold or lacking warm feeling c1175 95 Heortan, þet calde weren þurh ilefleaste. ?c1225 (?a1200) (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 294 Ich walde..þet þu were inmi luue. oðer allunge calt oder hat mid alle. 1382 Rev. iii. 15 I wolde thou were coold or hoot. c1450 tr. Thomas à Kempis i. xxi For þese goþ not to þe herte..þerfore we remayne colde & slowe. 1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart I. ccviii. 248 He was nat colde to sette forward, but incontinent went to the lorde of Roy. 1526 W. Bonde iii. sig. YYYvii Vnkynde synner, whiche renderest agayne, so drye & colde thankes to thy lorde therfore. 1597 R. Hooker v. lxxix. 242 Their colde affection to Godward. 1640 in J. Nicholson 17 Dec. (1855) 129 The Committie foirsaid..declares ane cold covenanter to be suche ane persone quha does not his dewtie in everie thing committed to his charge, thankfullie and willinglie. 1711 R. Steele No. 38. ⁋10 Whether a Man is to be cold to what his Friends think of him. 1727 A. Hamilton II. xlvii. 167 Their Incomes are very small, as Charity and Piety are very cold among their Flock. a1770 J. Jortin (1772) VI. vii. 137 A cold request is entitled to a cold answer. 1783 G. Crabbe i. 17 And the cold charities of man to man. 1842 H. Rogers I. 19 He was even slandered in Ireland as a cold friend to his country. the mind > emotion > calmness > self-possession or self-control > [adjective] c1500 Young Children's Bk. (Ashm. 61) in (2002) i. 23 Be cold of spech, & make no stryfe. 1509 Bp. J. Fisher 269 His delynge in tyme of perylles and daungers was colde and sobre. a1522 G. Douglas tr. Virgil (1960) xi. vii. 104 A man nocht indegest, bot wyss and cald. a1616 W. Shakespeare (1623) ii. iii. 2 Your Lordship is..the most coldest that euer turn'd vp Ace. View more context for this quotation 1795 W. Paley (ed. 3) II. ii. iii. 94 The production of artifice, or of a cold forgery. the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual desire > [adjective] > full of sexual desire > not 1602 W. Warner (rev. ed.) xiii. lxxviii. 323 And Nature, as in Mules, in all Diuersities is could. 1604 W. Shakespeare iv. vii. 143 Long Purples That..our cull-cold maydes [1623 our cold Maids] doe dead mens fingers call them. 1609 W. Shakespeare Louers Complaint in sig. L2v He preacht pure maide, and praisd cold chastitie. a1616 W. Shakespeare (1623) iv. i. 66 To make cold Nymphes chast crownes. View more context for this quotation 1722 A. Pope 23 Chaste as cold Cynthia's virgin light. 1859 C. Dickens ii. xvi. 122 She was pretty enough to have been married long ago. You English are cold, it seems to me. 1951 M. McLuhan 94/2 When this very frigid aspect of the beauty chorus was being discussed, Ring Lardner is reported to have made the famous remark: ‘Some like 'em cold'. 1984 3 Sept. 20/2 Olivier..makes his prince something of a cold cod. the mind > goodness and badness > harmfulness > hard-heartedness > [adjective] the mind > emotion > absence of emotion > [adjective] > cold-blooded 1849 J. Ruskin Introd. 2 That sometimes the too cold calculation of our powers should reconcile us too easily to our short comings. 1857 T. P. Thompson II. App. 96 The cold, habitual, constitutional belief, that every man who is stronger has a right to take from every man who is weaker. the mind > attention and judgement > [phrase] > fail to interest the mind > emotion > absence of emotion > make emotionally unfeeling [verb (transitive)] > fail to interest or excite 1857 ‘G. Eliot’ in 11 30 An orator may discourse very eloquently on injustice in general, and leave his audience cold. 1888 H. Sweet 28 His enthusiasm..leaves us cold. 1927 A. Huxley 173 I..am left cold by ritual, the corybantic emotionalism of revivals. 1967 E. Short i. 1 Whereas one is uplifting to look at the other leaves one emotionally cold. the world > action or operation > undertaking > preparation > unpreparedness > [adverb] 1896 G. Ade x. 88 I'm an easy runner till it comes to the high jump and then I quit cold. 1928 5 Sept. 12/5 He had just heard that..a play had opened cold in Philadelphia or somewhere... I told him it meant that it had gone into a big town without a try-out week. 1958 N. Coward V. p. xxiii We were to open [at Drury Lane] ‘cold’, that is without a try-out. the mind > emotion > hatred > hostility > [adjective] the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > discourtesy > [adjective] > not affable 1557 Earl of Surrey et al. (new ed.) f. 97v (heading) The complaint of a hot woer, delayed with doutfull cold answers. a1616 W. Shakespeare (1623) iii. vi. 114 I spoke with hir but once, And found her wondrous cold . View more context for this quotation 1673 A. Wood (1848) 184 Dined at my brother Kits, cold meat, cold entertainment, cold reception, cold clownish woman. a1701 H. Maundrell (1703) 9 Having reason to expect, but a cold welcome. 1722 W. Wollaston vi. 142 The husband becoming cold and averse to her. 1736 W. R. Chetwood II. vii. 166 I have, once more, made my Addresses to Isabella..but she's as cold as a Cucumber. 1833 H. Martineau i. iii. 38 Meet cold looks at every turn. 1885 10 91 She was excessively cold to her. the mind > emotion > suffering > dejection > [adjective] > gloomy or depressing a1400 (a1325) (Vesp.) l. 24204 Care clinges in mi hert cald. 14.. 3561 (MS. M) Whan he awaked, his hert was colde. c1400 (?c1390) (1940) l. 1982 With ful colde sykyngeȝ. c1400 (?c1380) l. 807 He toke on hymself oure carez colde. c1485 (1882) iii. 151 Cast in carys cold. c1540 (?a1400) 10385 Neuer kepis þu þi corse out of cold angur. 1598 W. Shakespeare ii. iv. 29 In very sinceritie of feare and cold heart, will hee to the King, and lay open all our proceedings. View more context for this quotation 1625 K. Long tr. J. Barclay ii. ix. 91 Timonides was strucke cold at heart. a1691 J. Flavell Faithful Narr. Sea-deliv. in (1701) II. 73 Which gave a colder Damp of Despair and Sorrow to our Hearts. 1782 W. Cowper Conversation in 251 She feels..A cold misgiving, and a killing dread. 10. c1386 G. Chaucer 436 Wymmens counseiles ben ful ofte colde; Wommannes counseil brought us first to woo. a1400 (a1325) (Trin. Cambr.) l. 14295 My broþer lazer þi frend is deed And þat is to me a colde reed. c1400 (?c1380) l. 264 Lorde! colde watz his cumfort. 1571 A. Golding tr. J. Calvin (x. 14) We receive but cold comfort of whatsoever the Scripture speaketh. 1594 W. Shakespeare iii. i. 86 Cold newes indeed Lord Somerset, But Gods will be done. 1597 W. Shakespeare iv. iv. 465 Colder tidings, yet they must be told. View more context for this quotation 1615 A. Niccholes Disc. Marriage & Wiving vii, in (1744) II. 153 A cold Comfort to go to hot Hell for Company. 1652 J. Howell tr. A. Giraffi II. 145 There came cold news from the countrey. 1837 J. H. Newman (ed. 2) III. ix. 128 It all falls as cold comfort upon them. 1848 T. B. Macaulay viii Preston brought cold news from Cumberland and Westmoreland. 1879 J. A. Froude xxi. 356 The messenger sent to Capua came back with cold comfort. 1905 R. E. Beach 82 We were liable to get turned down cold if we didn't have some story. 1916 H. L. Wilson vi. 265 This game where you play cards with yourself and mebbe win a thousand dollars cold. 1953 26 Mar. One of their attacks..was stopped cold by concentrated artillery and mortar fire. 1954 B. Benson xxi. 213 I'm not going to quit cold like you... I'll start all over again with the school. the mind > emotion > absence of emotion > [adjective] > rendered emotionless > rendered emotionally powerless society > communication > information > news or tidings > [adjective] > of news: sensational, striking, etc. > not 1600 W. Shakespeare ii. vii. 73 Fareyouwell, your sute is cold. View more context for this quotation] 1705 J. Addison 104 The Jest grows cold even with them too when it comes on the Stage in a Second Scene. 1843 T. Carlyle ii. xvii. 175 The coldest word was once a glowing new metaphor. 1913 E. C. Bentley i. 16 Within a week..‘the Manderson story’, to the trained sense of editors..was ‘cold’. 1946 D. L. Sayers 130 The date had to be changed to conceal the fact that the news was already ‘cold’. 12. the world > food and drink > hunting > hunting with hounds > [adjective] > of the scent the world > food and drink > hunting > thing hunted or game > [adjective] > scent > weak or scentless 1593 W. Shakespeare sig. Eijv The hot sent-snuffing hounds are driuen to doubt..till they haue singled With much ado the cold fault cleanly out. View more context for this quotation a1616 W. Shakespeare (1623) ii. v. 119 He is now at a cold sent. a1616 W. Shakespeare (1623) ii. i. 153 You smell this businesse with a sence as cold As is a dead-mans nose. 1773 G. Washington (1925) II. 100 Touched now and then upon a Cold Scent till we came into Colo. Fairfax's Neck. 1874 in S. Sidney (1875) 398 When running a cold scent the music [of the hounds] is extremely fine. 1875 S. Sidney 476 Where hounds run from grass to plough, it is often found that they decline from racing breast-high to cold hunting. 1878 C. Hallock (ed. 4) i. 440 The object is to obtain a fine nose [in a dog], so as to hunt a cold scent. society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > children's game > hiding or chasing game > [adjective] > distant in seeking games 1865 C. Dickens II. iii. vi. 53 ‘That can't be the spot too?’ said Venus. ‘No,’ said Wegg, ‘he's getting cold.’ 1876 ‘M. Twain’ ix. 88 Now they're stuck. Can't find it. Here they come again. Now they're hot. Cold again. 1882 (ed. 2) 29 The progress of the player is usually announced by assuring him that he is ‘very cold’, ‘cold’, ‘warmer’, ‘warm’, ‘hot’, ‘very hot’, or ‘burning’, according as he is far from or near to the article to be discovered. 1887 A. Daly 17 You are nowhere near it. As the children say in their game— you're ‘cold’. the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > family Cervidae (deer) > [adjective] > not wounded 1856 ‘Stonehenge’ i. x. §1 An unwounded deer is called a cold hart. the world > action or operation > manner of action > carelessness > [adjective] > neglectful > neglected a1701 H. Maundrell (1703) To Rdr. sig. a2 The Papers, after they had lain cold a good while by him. the world > matter > colour > quality of colour > [adjective] > cold society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > painting > art of colouring > [adjective] > quality of colour > cold 1706 B. Buckeridge Ess. Eng. School in J. Savage tr. R. de Piles 448 He is, for the most part, very cold in his Colouring. 1756 T. Bardwell 26 His [sc. Van Haecken's] Middle Teint, which was made only of Black and White, was so very cold, that no other Colour but Blue would make a colder Teint. 1821 W. M. Craig iii. 172 Colours..are divided by the painter into warm and cold. 1879 O. N. Rood xvii. 296 Green is not a colour suggestive of light or warmth, but is what artists call cold. Compounds1594 W. Shakespeare (new ed.) sig. Fiijv With cold-pale weaknesse, nums ech feeling part. 1673 J. Milton On Death Fair Infant iii, in (new ed.) 18 With his cold-kind embrace. 1830 Ld. Tennyson Dying Swan in 102 The cold-white sky. 1598 G. Chapman tr. Homer iii. 165 Those cold-spirited peers. 1647 H. More To Rdr. 6/1 Some cold-pated Gentlemen. 1718 C. Cibber ii. 23 Stupid, cold-scented Treason. 1804 3 447 Some such cold-tempered..antiquary. 1806 R. Forsyth IV. 250 Cold-bottomed land scattered in patches on the slopes. 1840 T. Hood 58 There was such a cold-muttonish expression in his round unmeaning face. 1861 Gen. P. Thompson in 21 Sept. 6/1 Some cold-skinned lizard. C3. with past participle, expressing the state in which a process is performed. See also cold-hammer v. a. the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > [noun] > meat > cold meat 1951 R. Mayer (new ed.) iii. 139 Simple solutions of resin in solvents, made without oils and driers, are known in the varnish industry as ‘cold-cut’ varnishes, even though steam heat is occasionally used to accelerate the solution. society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > materials having undergone process > [adjective] > having undergone other processes 1716 No. 5468/4 Fine Beech Oil cold drawn. 1859 T. J. Gullick & J. Timbs 207 When oils are expressed without heat, or, as it is termed, ‘cold-drawn.’ 1892 R. L. Stevenson & L. Osbourne ix. 142 The little beast means cold-drawn biz. 1898 R. Kipling in 11 Nov. 5/1 Out of all manner of tight places that require dexterity and a cheek of cold-drawn brass. 1906 L. C. Cornford 99 Cotton is the subject of much cold-drawn gambling. 1906 10 Feb. 7/1 A detective-sergeant, by relating cold-drawn facts..showed the prisoner to be an unprincipled scoundrel. 1919 Nov. 24/2 Many successful locomotive builders procure various parts from special manufacturers—for instance, cold-drawn or welded tubes. 1946 28 Dec. 930/1 X-ray examination of the cold-drawn fibres shows that the crystals have become orientated in a direction parallel to the fibre axis. 1878 1 Nov. 347 By comparing hot-rolled and cold-rolled iron of the same kind, under physical stress. 1888 78 Cold rolled, bars and plates rolled without being previously heated. 1897 8 Mar. 2/5 Steel..cold-rolled sheets. 1963 7 Dec. 1079/1 Cold-rolled [steel] thin plates. 1742 E. Young 23 On cold-serv'd Repetitions He subsists. 1847 4 47 Iron..which after having been cold-swaged became crystalline. b. 1909 Cold-drawing. 1946 28 Dec. 930/1 These fibres can then be extended to some four to five times their original length by the process of cold-drawing. 1888 Cold Riveting, small rivets in thin plates are hammered up without being heated in the fire. 1878 1 Nov. 347 The cold rolling is effected by means of a powerful train of the ordinary type. 1888 78 Cold rolling. The practice of rolling iron plates cold produces a material having a high tensile strength. 1955 4 June 3/4 The cold-rolling firms take steel from the re-rollers..and roll it to the correct gauge... Every engineering trade uses cold rolled strip. 1888 Cold Sawing, the sawing of iron while cold with a cold iron saw. 1877 VII. 799/2 Cold swaging, that is, by hammering it [sc. malleable iron] till cold. 1873 E. Spon i. 337/2 Block tin dissolved in muriatic acid with a little mercury forms a very good amalgam for cold tinning. 1946 59 The more recently developed method of cold welding in which pressure alone is applied. Cold welding..is used principally for aluminium and its alloys and not for steel. C4. Special combinations. the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > suppuration > [noun] > a suppuration > abscess > other abscesses 1828 Boyer & Craigie 43 The cold abscess of the Surgeons of the Saracen School. 1847 J. F. South tr. Chelius I. 45 The commencement of cold abscess usually sets in, without any sensibly perceptible local appearance. 1888 Apr. 291 Sir John Floyer of cold-bathing notoriety. the world > food and drink > farming > gardening > garden > division or part of garden > [noun] > bed or plot > cold bed 1664 J. Evelyn Kalendarium Hortense 63 in African Mary-golds..will come..in the Cold-bed without Art. 1881 9 121 Cold-bed, a platform in a rolling-mill on which cold bars are stored. 1881 9 121 Cold blast, air forced into a furnace without being previously heated. 1890 6 Jan. 2/3 Best Staffordshire hot-blast pigs are 90s., and cold-blast 110s. to 115s. the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > electronics > electronic devices or components > cathode-ray tube > [noun] > operating at ambient temperature 1929 17 849 (heading) Cold cathode rectification. 1929 17 850 Cold cathode devices for rectification are essentially identical in that they embody a cathode, of relatively greater surface area than the anode, situated in a suitable gas of the proper density to produce the desired conductivity by ionization. 1930 31 Oct. 560/3 Many interesting developments of the original cold-cathode tubes were taking place. 1945 17 762 A special cold cathode tube capable of carrying loads of 1,000 to 2,000 amperes at 100 kV. 1725 R. Bradley Cold-Charges, outward Applications to distemper'd Horses. 1927 2 351/1 Cold cocked, to be knocked senseless. ‘Tom was cold cocked when that rock hit him.’ 1934 J. T. Farrell (1936) iv. 205 They cold-cocked him, and left him unconscious. the world > health and disease > healing > medical appliances or equipment > ice packs and water bags > [noun] 1888 tr. 44 A very great reduction in temperature..can be obtained by the cold coil. 1729 4 Oct. (Notes & Queries 5 Oct. 1929, 236/2) He further directs, that no Undertaker, alias Cold Cook, or Upholder shall have the Management thereof. 1860 J. C. Hotten (ed. 2) Cold cook. the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > [noun] > meat > cold meat 1945 A. Kober 113 She suddenly sighted the food on the table and pointed accusingly. ‘Look what he's itting—cold cotts!’ 1964 W. Markfield (1965) xii. 242 Cold cuts, a roll? It's Sunday, it's hot, she didn't feel like cooking. 1967 N. Mailer i. 13 A cold cut set in the white tray of a refrigerator. 1969 P. Highsmith xvii. 152 A buffet-table of cold cuts. 1857 3 Apr. 4/2 He's got the thing all set to ring in a cold deck. a1875 ‘M. Twain’ Sketches in (1900) XIX. 360 I never have gambled from that day to this..without a ‘cold deck’ in my pocket. 1876 B. Harte vi. ii You've been..playin' it very low down on my moral and religious nature, generally ringin' in a cold deck on my spiritual condition. 1887 F. Francis 225 Between them they put up a cold deck in a faro-box. 1884 in (1942) 17 125/2 The miller..kicked because said Serna was trying to cold deck said Sanches. 1902 H. L. Wilson xi. 123 A man wakes up to find that his natural promptin's has cold-decked him. 1920 C. E. Mulford xv. 163 I've had all th' visitin' I want with a bunch of cold-deckers. the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > [noun] > crushing, stifling, or overwhelming > one who or that which 1835 IV. 33/2 A stream of water falling on the head..It is called the cold dash, or douche, or douse. 1904 VII. 168 He would have to be an uncommonly sturdy Simon Zelotes whose zeal survived the cold-douching of schoolboy chaff. 1925 D. H. Lawrence 172 It's no use talking... That ‘subject’ was a cold douche. 1959 11 Feb. 9/1 From official quarters a cold douche was quickly poured on this premature jubilation. the mind > emotion > fear > cowardice or pusillanimity > [noun] 1893 S. Crane (1896) xiv. 112 I knew this was the way it would be. They got cold feet. 1896 G. Ade xii. 108 He's one o' them boys that never has cold feet. 1904 E. Robins i. 8 But instead of ‘getting cold feet’ as the phrase for discouragement ran, and turning back, they determined [etc.]. 1909 Cold feet,..the condition of plants due to excessive watering without proper drainage. 1914 H. Rosher (1916) 40 I get awfully cold feet... That puts the fear of God into you. 1915 ‘I. Hay’ xxi. 329 It seems that the enemy have evacuated Fosse Alley again. Nobody quite knows why: a sudden attack of cold feet, probably. 1962 20 Feb. 11/2 The Algerian leadership might have cold feet at the concessions it has made. the mind > emotion > absence of emotion > [noun] > coldness or lack of warm feeling > person 1941 ‘P. Wentworth’ (1942) xxvi. 150 He's a cold fish. No, fish isn't the right creature—I believe they are quite affectionate. 1962 M. McLuhan 19 The Westerner appears..a very cold fish indeed. the mind > emotion > fear > cowardice or pusillanimity > [adjective] the mind > emotion > fear > cowardice or pusillanimity > [adjective] > abjectly cowardly the mind > emotion > fear > cowardice or pusillanimity > [noun] > quality of spiritlessness > spiritless person or people 1944 G. B. Shaw xxxvi. 311 In Russia there is the Communist Party with its rules and disciplines and frequent purges of the coldfooted. 1966 6 Oct. 517/3 A strangely cold-footed way of presenting such glorious music. 1919 W. H. Downing 17 Cold footer, a carpet knight. 1920 J. M. Hunter I. 429 Two of my men stayed with me, and the third, a ‘cold-footer’, crossed on the bridge. the world > food and drink > farming > gardening > equipment and buildings > [noun] > glazed frame or cloche 1851 E. C. Gaskell 17 Mar. (1966) 833 Papa has bought a new frame..& we are going to have it for a cold frame to harden out the plants from the hot bed. 1859 3 503 The seed for early summer cabbages can be planted in a cold frame early in September. 1877 2 164 These insects had all gathered along the Northern and Eastern margin [inside] of a ‘cold frame’, in his garden. the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > movements and pressure conditions > [noun] > uniform body of air > boundary of > specific 1921 J. Bjerknes & H. Solberg in II. iii. 12 The boundary line at the ground will be the front of advancing cold air, or, to introduce a shorter expression, a ‘cold front’. the world > health and disease > ill health > pain > pain in specific parts > [noun] > in hip-joint 1584 T. Cogan cliv. 130 A verie good oyntment..for the Sciatica or colde gowte. the world > food and drink > farming > gardening > equipment and buildings > [noun] > greenhouse or glass-house > other types of glass-house or hothouse 1841 J. W. Loudon 60/2 Cold Houses for Plants are not generally in use, though it is a common practice with gardeners to remove plants from hothouses into the back sheds, in order to retard their blossoming. 1904 28 Jan. 6/1 It is the cold-house that has smiled upon them, in the shape of the refrigerated holds of the South African steamers. 1920 384/1 The ‘forced’ and ‘cold-house’ tomato is Guernsey's speciality. 1927 7 Aug. 8/6 The ‘cold kiss’ [in Berlin] is an ice-cream, flattened between two wafers. the world > matter > light > light emitted under particular conditions > [noun] > luminescence 1894 6 Oct. 328 Cold Light... Apparatus..to produce light by means of high frequency electric currents, without converting most of the energy into heat. 1936 5 Dec. 974/1 It..makes available a ‘permanent’ source of ‘cold’ light. 1959 VIII. 723/2 To produce ‘cold light’, or luminescence, the molecules of a substance must be stimulated to emit light by the reception of some form of energy. 1816 W. Scott Old Mortality xiv, in 1st Ser. IV. 306 Cold-livered and mean-spirited. the world > life > the body > dead body > [noun] > condition of a1616 W. Shakespeare (1623) iii. i. 119 To die,..To lie in cold obstruction, and to rot, This sensible warme motion, to become A kneaded clod. View more context for this quotation 1813 Ld. Byron (ed. 3) 5 Where cold Obstruction's apathy Appals the gazing mourner's heart. 1876 J. R. Lowell 2nd Ser. 157 The cold obstruction of two centuries thaws, and the stream of speech..seeks out its old windings. the world > health and disease > healing > medical appliances or equipment > ice packs and water bags > [noun] 1909 Dec. 866 The cold-pack is used for from 10 to 15 minutes every hour. 1786 R. Burns 73 Cold-pausing Caution's lesson scorning. 1966 J. Stevens Cox 35/2 Cold permanent wave, the transformation of straight hair to curled hair by means of chemicals without the application of heat. the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > state of being awake > [noun] > action, act, or state of waking or being wakened > specific waking or rousing > an act/instance of 1611 R. Cotgrave Porter vne chemise blanche à, to giue a mornings camisado, or a cold pie for a breakfast, vnto. the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > state of being awake > wake or rouse [verb (transitive)] > other ways of rousing 1834 T. Hood (1840) 257 I've often cold-pigged her of a morning. the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > state of being awake > [noun] > action, act, or state of waking or being wakened > specific waking or rousing > an act/instance of 1870 M. Bridgman II. v. 117 You deserve ‘cold pig’ for your laziness. the world > the earth > region of the earth > zone or belt > [noun] > in relation to climate or weather conditions > specific 1909 Suppl. at Pole2 Pole of cold or cold pole. 1927 W. G. Kendrew (ed. 2) 167 In Eastern Siberia is situated the ‘cold pole’ of the earth. 1678 J. Moxon I. ii. 21 Smiths call all Punches they use upon cold Iron cold Punches. the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > inferior thing > [noun] ?1406 T. Hoccleve La Mâle Règle l. 363 in E. P. Hammond (1927) 65/1 Thy rentes annuel, as thow wel woost, To scarse been greet costes to susteene; And in thy cofre, pardee, is cold roost. a1500 (a1450) (Cambr.) l. 136 I vow to God..þou spekis of cold rost! I schal wyrch swyselyer, withouten any bost. a1500 (a1460) (1994) I. ii. 24 Yey, cold rost is at my masteres hame. 1542 N. Udall tr. Erasmus f. 266v A beggerie litle toune of cold roste in the mountaignes of Savoye. the world > food and drink > farming > gardening > equipment and buildings > [noun] > cold room 1904 12 Jan. 4/2 In some of the largest nurseries..there exist cold-rooms or stores, pitch-dark and packed full of lily-of-the-valley crowns, lilies, and other bulbs and plants. society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > synthetic resins and plastics > [noun] > synthetic rubber > specific 1948 in (1950) 25 64/2 You'll get up to 30 percent more wear out of that set of synthetics when ‘cold rubber’ is used. 1964 N. G. Clark xvii. 356 A recent process, operated at 5°, produces ‘cold rubber’ with improved toughness and elasticity. 1883 30 Sept. 619/2 They get up a ceremony in her honour, what they call a cold Suttee. 1885 13 Oct. 784 Sentencing to a life of wretchedness those who would at one time have been immolated on the funeral pyre, or poisoned under the name of cold suttee. 1900 Wrongs of Indian Womanhood iv. 53 A leading reformer refers to the present sufferings of Indian widows as ‘cold suttee’. 1993 M. Strobel in M. Adas 359 A life of poverty, advancing age, and the ‘cold sati’ to which Hindu widows were subjected as polluted, marginal, and ostracized members of the community. society > trade and finance > selling > [noun] > selling method or technique > types of 1961 at Cold a. 13 b. Cold selling. 1978 28 Aug. 90 It was all cold selling…We'd walk into a tavern and ask the owner to cook up a Tombstone pizza for his customers. 1986 29 May iv. 2/2 The major addition was a ban on ‘cold selling’ in which customers are given unsolicited calls and told that a review of their records shows a need for additional services. a1884 E. H. Knight Suppl. Cold shot. society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > metal > metal in specific state or form > [adjective] > welded > without weld 1874 E. H. Knight I. 593/2 Cold-shut, a term meaning that a link is closed while cold, without welding. 1877 W. Richards 217 The castings must be free from any imperfections, such as honeycombs, ‘cold shuts’, cracks, or flaws. 1887 2 304/2 A ‘cold-shut’ or split ring..which can be fastened by hammering. the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > cold weather > [noun] > cold spell 1776 T. Smith (1849) 279 A dismal cold snap of weather. 1839 13 509 We had a cold snap, last night. 1848 J. R. Bartlett (at cited word) ‘A cold snap,’ i.e. a period of sudden cold weather. 1861 4 118 The sun was shining upon them during a cold snap, after a thaw. 1885 ‘C. E. Craddock’ xv. 289 One might easily judge how few of the mountaineers had ventured out since the beginning of the ‘cold snap’. 1892 W. Pike 237 The cold snap continued for several days. society > occupation and work > industry > working with specific materials > working with metal > [noun] > soldering > types of 1864 28 Oct. 527/2 A correspondent sends us the following method of cold soldering. 1877 16 June 43/2 (heading) Cold Soldering. the world > life > the body > part of body > [noun] > surface > sensitive points on 1895 E. B. Titchener tr. O. Külpe 94 Blix and Goldscheider..speak of heat and cold spots, and regard them as the peculiar terminal organs of the temperature sense, and as independent of the pressure spots. 1901 E. B. Titchener I. i. 57 To ascertain how these organs (warm spots or cold spots) respond to a stimulation. society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > machines which impart power > engine > internal-combustion engine > [adjective] > other specific types society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > machines which impart power > engine > internal-combustion engine > [noun] > ignition > types of 1930 5 July 32/2 A new light, high-speed, cold-starting Diesel engine. 1936 Apr. 113/1 The engine is of the solid-injection, cold-starting type, and even under the worst climatic conditions it can be started in a few seconds. 1959 (ed. 36) iii. 50 Cold starting in winter requires the richest mixture of the whole operating range. the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preserving or pickling > [noun] > preserving by cooling or freezing > place or machine for 1895 29 May 8/4 Extensive cold-store accommodation had been provided. 1949 (B.S.I.) 6 Cold store, an artificially cooled and insulated structure for the purpose of maintaining perishables at a pre-determined temperature. the world > food and drink > food > food otherwise characterized > [noun] > cold food the world > food and drink > food > amounts of food > [noun] > table of food 1955 185 ‘A wonderful display’ of cold table, including turkey, grouse, and salmon. 1962 P. Purser xvii. 78 I ate more than usual of the cold table. 1964 C. Gavin iii. 64 Champagne and a ‘cold table’ spread with every kind of delicacy. the mind > emotion > suffering > feeling of weariness or tedium > [noun] > story or news which is dull through repetition 1709 R. Steele & J. Addison No. 93. ⁋1 [These] are thread-bear Subjects, and cold Treats. a1739 C. Jarvis tr. M. de Cervantes (1742) I. iii. xii. 152 All having been cold-treat with him for many days past. the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > suppuration > [noun] > a suppuration > abscess > ulcer > other ulcers 1870 T. Holmes (ed. 2) I. 185 Cold ulcers should be distinguished, because of the peculiarity of constitution on which they depend. 1858 5 168 The most remarkable peculiarity of the Gulf Stream is what has been..termed the ‘cold wall’, a mass of cold water lying between the warm water and the shore. 1874 F. G. D. Bedford iv. 85 The fall of temperature is so sudden that the line of separation has received the distinctive name of the ‘cold wall’; at the surface a difference of 30° has been observed within a few ships lengths. society > armed hostility > war > types of war > [noun] > cold war 1945 ‘G. Orwell’ in 19 Oct. 8/1 A State which was..in a permanent state of ‘cold war’ with its neighbours. 1946 10 Mar. 4/3 After the Moscow Conference last December,..Russia began to make a ‘cold war’ on Britain and the British Empire. 1947 W. Lippmann (title) The cold war. A study in U.S. foreign policy. 1947 17 Apr. 21/4 Let us not be deceived—we are today in the midst of a cold war. 1948 CCCCXLVI. 411 The British Government..should recognize that the ‘cold war’, as the Americans call it, is on in earnest, that the third world war has, in fact, begun. 1950 D. Gascoyne 61 Cold war propaganda. 1950 5 Feb. 42L/2 A ‘cold war’ was in progress..as the police..dared Georgia's revenue agents to invade Alabama. 1951 W. S. Chalmers xvi. 376 The ‘cold war’ which Beatty had to wage throughout his term of office for British maritime security was on two fronts. 1958 14 Aug. 224/2 World communism..is rejecting a policy of partial disengagement in the cold war. 1964 18 Public concern with cold-war espionage was then at its height with the..conviction in Moscow of a British business man. 1967 30 June 757/3 Only in Europe after a decade of cold war..has confrontation given way to the kind of mutually recognised status quo. 1959 27 Sept. 7/8 Screeching, hysterical cries of cold warriors. 1969 5 Nov. 8/3 It is very hard morally to distinguish between the good guys and the bad guys..for any but the most committed cold warrior. the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > cold weather > [noun] > cold spell the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > beautification of the hair > [noun] > curling or frizzing > act of 1876 Nov. 124/1 Low temperatures..developed among the Rocky Mountains, and moved thence, as ‘cold waves’, over the continent eastward. 1901 4 Oct. 5/1 When a cold wave strikes Northern Minnesota, there is no knowing where the thermometer may go. 1921 10 Apr. 31/6 A cold wave that struck Eastern Nebraska last night continued to prevail today. 1949 687/1 Cold wave, a type of permanent hair waving, in which ammonium thioglycollate is generally used. 1956 A. Waldhorn 33 Cold wave,..in hairdressing, a chemical process used to create a permanent wave. 1965 22 Feb. 9/4 After the heavy snowfall..the cold wave spread, causing freezing conditions in orange groves. 1859 W. J. M. Rankine §337 In land engines the injection water [for the condenser] comes from a tank called the cold well, surrounding the condenser. the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > distilled drink > [noun] > spirits and water 1850 1st Ser. 2 82/2 A glass of ‘cold without’..understood to mean brandy and cold water without sugar. 1853 E. Bulwer-Lytton II. vi. xx. 175 Fame, sir—not worth a glass of cold without! society > occupation and work > industry > working with specific materials > working with metal > [noun] > hardening, tempering, or annealing > cold working 1899 56 197 By cold work is meant work performed below the critical range. 1899 56 198 Cold work distorts the grains or crystals of steel, flattening them and elongating them. 1899 56 198 The lower the temperature the more pronounced the effect of cold working. 1903 H. H. Campbell (ed. 2) ii. xv. 408 Cold worked steel showing lines of flow. 1911 CLXXXIII. 405 The microscopic properties of cold-worked iron. 1917 II. 156 (heading) Light versus Heavy Reductions in Cold Working Brass. 1932 June 191/1 As we ‘coldwork’ the metal. 1942 J. N. Greenwood (ed. 2) 12 Cold work, the plastic deformation of metals at temperatures below that at which recovery and recrystallisation would take place. 1942 J. N. Greenwood (ed. 2) 13 Cold work can be regular as in wire drawing, cold rolling, etc., or irregular as in hammering, deep drawing, cold heading. 1946 9 Steels containing 0·7–0·85% carbon are often cold-worked. 1946 18 Cold-working, a method of conferring strength by means of plastic deformation below the annealing or recrystallization temperature. Draft additions 1997the world > the universe > diffused matter > [noun] > dark matter > types of 1984 J. R. Primack & G. R. Blumenthal in 117 166 We will consider here the physical and astrophysical implications of three classes of elementary particle D[ark] M[atter] candidates, which we will call hot, warm, and cold. (We are grateful to Dick Bond for proposing this apt terminology.).. Cold DM consists of particles for which free streaming is of no cosmological importance.] 1984 285 l39 (title) Fine-scale anisotropy of the cosmic microwave background in a universe dominated by cold dark matter. 1986 Dec. 57/3 The cold-dark-matter hypothesis has forged a strong link between particle physics and cosmology. 1993 18 Jan. 49/3 Both [axions and WIMPS] are known..as cold dark matter (cold refers not just to their temperature but also to the fact that they move slowly..). Draft additions 1997the world > matter > physics > atomic nucleus > nuclear fission > nuclear fusion > [noun] > occurring at low temperature 1956 29 Dec. 3 Known as ‘cold fusion’ and still only a laboratory phenomenon, the new process requires neither uranium nor the million degrees of heat used in the other two atomic principles. 1977 14 Oct. 584/1 The idea of muon catalysis of cold fusion goes back nearly 50 years. 1982 G. Münzenberg in N. M. Edelstein 241 The nuclei formed in the chosen target projectile combinations need no extra energy above the Coulomb barrier to undergo fusion. So we have a new hope, to reach the island of superheavy nuclei by cold fusion of 48Ca and 248Cm. 1989 24 Mar. i. 20/1 More recently, Jones has concentrated his research in the ‘cold fusion’ process like that announced Thursday by his colleagues at the University of Utah. 1991 20 Feb. a10/4 A group that initially reported confirmation of cold fusion and then retracted its report when the scientists realized their neutron counter was giving erroneous measurements. 1992 Spring 59 Many supposed ‘breakthroughs’ are only beginnings, and some have little more substance than cold fusion. Draft additions January 20051985 11 July (San Diego County ed.) ii. 2/2 Miami police were unable to find any further evidence, and the ‘torso’ killing was retired to the ‘cold case section’, where unsolved crimes lie dormant. 2003 H. C. Lee & F. Tirnady iv. 80 DNA can survive under favorable conditions for tens of thousands of years at least, certainly longer than the average unsolved cold case. Draft additions June 20081918 W. A. White l. 604 Tell 'em to come over and have a cold one on me. 1962 A. J. Marshall & R. Drysdale 54 Bottles and cans discarded along the way,..wrapped in wet paper, a few ‘cold ones for the road’. 2006 (Nexis) 10 June 23 All we have to do is kick back, turn on the telly, crack open a cold one and enjoy. Draft additions September 2018the mind > emotion > suffering > displeasure > [noun] > unpleasantness > unpleasant experience the mind > will > motivation > demotivation > [noun] > discouraging action or quality > a discouraging influence 1875 I. M. Calisch 396/2 Dat viel mij kond op het [lijf], that seized me disagreeably; that was a cold shower to me. 1904 19 1574/2 That was my first political cold shower. It was my first experience of men who speak like angels on the public platforms, and yet in Parliament act like cats. 1961 13 Jan. (Late City ed.) 28/1 Anyone who has developed a complacent attitude toward our rocket and space programs is likely to find the report..a cold shower indeed. 2004 15 Nov. (Central ed.) a1/3 Congress opens its lame-duck session tomorrow, with mounting debt a cold shower for Bush initiatives. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online June 2022). coldv. Etymology: Old English *caldian , cealdian , to become cold, < cald , ceald , cold adj. Compare derivative acealdian , acold adj. See also kelde v. the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > high or low temperature > have high or low temperature [verb (intransitive)] > low temperature the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > coldness > be cold [verb (intransitive)] > be cold or have sensation of cold the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > coldness > be cold [verb (intransitive)] > become cold the mind > emotion > absence of emotion > lack sensitivity [verb (intransitive)] > grow cold OE 69 Eorðmægen ealdaþ, ellen coldað. c1320 4603 Er her body be-gan to colde. c1374 G. Chaucer v. 1671 Ful sodeynli his herte gan to colde. c1380 J. Wyclif III. 438 Charite of many cooldiþ. c1400 (1866) 220 Whanne þe ffet coldeth. a1450 (c1410) H. Lovelich xiii. l. 828 Sone his herte be-gan to Colde. 1885 T. H. Huxley Let. 30 Mar. in L. Huxley (1900) II. 101 It blew and rained and colded for eight-and-forty hours consecutively. 1909 T. Hardy 26 I kissed her colding face and hair, I kissed her corpse. the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > coldness > make cold [verb (transitive)] c1385 G. Chaucer Prol. 240 His loking dooth myn herte colde. ?a1400 3519 Thowe coldis myne herte! 1598 R. Haydocke tr. G. P. Lomazzo v. 193 The selfe same power of washing, colding, heating, and burning. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < |
