Cold — Defs

01 a. Deprived of heat, or having a low temperature; not warm or hot; gelid; frigid.

1.
Deprived of heat, or having a low temperature; not warm or hot; gelid; frigid.
2.
Lacking the sensation of warmth; suffering from the absence of heat; chilly; shivering; as, to be cold.
3.
Not pungent or acrid.
4.
Wanting in ardor, intensity, warmth, zeal, or passion; spiritless; unconcerned; reserved.
“A cold and unconcerned spectator.” — T. Burnet.

“No cold relation is a zealous citizen.” — Burke.
5.
Unwelcome; disagreeable; unsatisfactory.
6.
Wanting in power to excite; dull; uninteresting.
“What a deal of cold business doth a man misspend the better part of life in!” — B. Jonson.

“The jest grows cold . . . when in comes on in a second scene.” — Addison.
7.
Affecting the sense of smell (as of hunting dogs) but feebly; having lost its odor; as, a cold scent.
8.
Not sensitive; not acute.
“Smell this business with a sense as cold As is a dead man's nose.” — Shak.
9.
Distant; -- said, in the game of hunting for some object, of a seeker remote from the thing concealed.
10.
Having a bluish effect. Cf. Warm, 8.(Paint.) See: Warm
“He was slain in cold blood after the fight was over.” — Sir W. Scott.

Syn. Gelid; bleak; frigid; chill; indifferent; unconcerned; passionless; reserved; unfeeling; stoical.

02 n. The relative absence of heat or warmth.

1.
The relative absence of heat or warmth.
2.
The sensation produced by the escape of heat; chilliness or chillness.
“When she saw her lord prepared to part, A deadly cold ran shivering to her heart.” — Dryden.
3.
A morbid state of the animal system produced by exposure to cold or dampness; a catarrh.(Med.)

Phrases & compounds

Cold sore — a vesicular eruption appearing about the mouth as the result of a cold, or in the course of any disease attended with fever.<-- causative virus Herpes simplex -->

To leave one out in the cold — to overlook or neglect him.

03 v. i. To become cold.

1.
To become cold.[Obs.]