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Moderately cold; between warm and cold; lacking in warmth; producing or promoting coolness. Fanned with cool winds. Milton.

Having a temper not easily excited; free from passion. -- Cool"-head`ed*ness, n.

That which cools, or abates heat or excitement. if acid things were used only as coolers, they would not be so proper in this case. Arbuthnot.

Same as Cooly.

Adapted to cool and refresh; allaying heat. "The cooling brook." Goldsmith. Cooling card, something that dashes hopes. [Obs.] -- Cooling time (Law), such a lapse of time as ought, taking all the circumstances of the case in view, to produce a subsiding of passion previously provoked. Wharton.

Somewhat cool. The nights began to grow a little coolish. Goldsmith.

Coolish; cool. [Obs.] Spenser.

The state of being cool; a moderate degree of cold; a moderate degree, or a want, of passion; want of ardor, zeal, or affection; calmness.

The great gray crane of India (Grus cinerea). [Also written coolen and cullum.]

An East Indian porter or carrier; a laborer transported from the East Indies, China, or Japan, for service in some other country.

In gasoline-engine motor vehicles, the cooling of the cylinder by increasing its radiating surface by means of ribs or radiators, and placing it so that it is exposed to a current of air. Cf. Water cooling. -- Air"-cooled`, a.

To expose to the air for the purpose of cooling, refreshing, or purifying; to ventilate; as, to air a room. It were good wisdom . . . that the jail were aired. Bacon. Were you but riding forth to air yourself. Shak.

A vessel of porous earthenware, used for cooling liquids by evaporation from the exterior surface.

due to a curving downward (refraction) of the light rays from the west resulting from the cooling of the air.

To subject to great heat, and then cool slowly, as glass, cast iron, steel, or other metal, for the purpose of rendering it less brittle; to temper; to toughen.

The process used to render glass, iron, etc., less brittle, performed by allowing them to cool very gradually from a high heat.

A heavy green oil (partially solidifying on cooling), which distills over from coal tar at a temperature above 270º. It is the principal source of anthracene.

hat which, atomizes; esp., an instrument for reducing a liquid to spray for disinfecting, cooling, or perfuming.

To come into legal operation in connection with anything; to vest; as, dower will attach. Cooley.

ough, used by brewers, distillers, dyers, picklers, gluemakers, and others, for mixing or cooling wort, holding water, hot glue, etc. Hop back, Jack back, the cistern which receives the infusion of malt and hops from the copper. -- Wash back, a vat in which distillers ferment the wort to form wash. -- Water back, a c…