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rchitects of their own happiness. Milton. A French woman is a perfect architect in dress. Coldsmith.

f one who is stunned. Hence: Numbness; loss of sensation; stupor; loss of sense. [Obs.] A coldness and astonishment in his loins, as folk say. Holland.

Any place of retreat and security. Earth has no other asylum for them than its own cold bosom. Southey.

Any gaseous envelope or medium. An atmosphere of cold oxygen. Miller.

The peculiar sensation, as of a light vapor, or cold air, rising from the trunk or limbs towards the head, a premonitory symptom of epilepsy or hysterics. Electric ~, a supposed electric fluid, emanating from an electrified body, and forming a mass surrounding it, called the electric atmosphere. See Atmosphere, 2.…

Avenge, O Lord, thy slaughtered saints, whose bones Lie scattered on the Alpine mountains cold. Milton. He had avenged himself on them by havoc such as England had never before seen. Macaulay.

To turn away. [Archaic] Cold and averting from our neighbor's good. Thomson.

To harden by cold. The earth . . . is baked with frost. Shak. They bake their sides upon the cold, hard stone. Spenser.

The act or process of cooking in an oven, or of drying and hardening by heat or cold.

poses of cleanliness, comfort, health, etc., to water, vapor, hot air, or the like; as, a cold or a hot bath; a medicated bath; a steam bath; a hip bath.

A drop of sweat or other liquid. "Cold beads of midnight dew." Wordsworth.

orpid; to deprive of sensation or sensibility; to stupefy; as, a hand or foot benumbed by cold. The creeping death benumbed her senses first. Dryden.

To rate or chide vehemently; to scold. Holland. Motley.

To make rattle; to scold vociferously; to cry down. [Obs.] Shak.

A cold north wind which prevails on the northern coasts of the Mediterranean and in Switzerland, etc.; -- nearly the same as the mistral.

Causing pain or smart; piercing; painful; sharp; severe; as, a bitter cold day.

hich was so unusual that many of Edward III.'s soldiers, then before Paris, died from the cold. Stow. Then it was not for nothing that may nose fell a bleeding on Black Monday last. Shak.

To whiten, as the surface of meat, by plunging into boiling water and afterwards into cold, so as to harden the surface and retain the juices.

Desolate and exposed; swept by cold winds. Wastes too bleak to rear The common growth of earth, the foodful ear. Wordsworth. At daybreak, on the bleak sea beach. Longfellow.

One who bleats; a sheep. In cold, stiff soils the bleaters oft complain Of gouty ails. Dyer.