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m the blue, by adding yellow orpiment, or by grinding down the green carbonate of copper. Cooley. Brande & C.

ound of quassia, cocculus Indicus, etc., used by fraudulent brewers in adulterating beer. Cooley.

In forging and smelting, a trough in which tools and ingots are cooled.

A nuptia; festival or ceremony; a marriage. Sweet day, so cool, so calm, so bright, The bridal of the earth and sky. Herbert.

An apartment in a house where butter, milk and other provisions are kept. All that need a cool and fresh temper, as cellars, pantries, and butteries, to the north. Sir H. Wotton.

Given to contrivance or forethought; forecasting; scheming; as, a cool calculating disposition. Calculating machine, a machine for the mechanical performance of mathematical operations, for the most part invented by Charles Babbage and G. and E. Scheutz. It computes logarithmic and other mathematical tables of a high d…

Cool; refreshing; fresh; as, a caller day; the caller air. Jamieson.

A method of attaining successively lower temperatures by utilizing the cooling effect of the expansion of one gas in condensing another less easily liquefiable, and so on.

A vessel for heating water; -- hence, a dish or pan. A chafer of water to cool the ends of the irons. Baker.

A porous earthen pot used in India for cooling water, etc.

Cool confidence; assurance; impudence. [Slang] Cheek of beef. See Illust. of Beef. -- Cheek bone (Anat.) the bone of the side of the fase; esp., the malar bone. -- Cheek by jowl, side by side; very intimate. -- Cheek pouch (Zoöl.), a sacklike dilation of the cheeks of certain monkeys and rodents, used for holding fo…

A moderate but disagreeable degree of cold; a disagreeable sensation of coolness, accompanied with shivering. "[A] wintry chill." W. Irving.

Coolness; coldness; a chill. Death is the chillness that precedes the dawn. Longfellow.

Somewhat cold; cool; chilly.

Composedly; coolly.

the act of melting; fusion. When sand and ashes are well melted together and suffered to cool, there is generated, by the colliquation, that sort of concretion we call "glass". Boyle.

cture is characteristic of certain igneous rocks, as basalt, and is due to contraction in cooling.

eiving and condensing the volatile products of distillation to a liquid or solid form, by cooling.

size or extent; to shrink; to be reduced in compass or in duration; as, iron contracts in cooling; a rope contracts when wet. Years contracting to a moment. Wordsworth.

en a bystander took a coin to get it changed, and converted it, [it was] held no larceny. Cooley.