Cool
Bible Usage:
- cool used twice.
- First Reference: Genesis 3:8
- Last Reference: Luke 16:24
Dictionaries:
- Included in Eastons: No
- Included in Hitchcocks: No
- Included in Naves: No
- Included in Smiths: No
- Included in Websters: Yes
- Included in Strongs: Yes
- Included in Thayers: Yes
- Included in BDB: Yes
Strongs Concordance:
COOL, adjective [G., cold, to cool; chilliness; to blow strong.]
1. Moderately cold; being of a temperature between hot and cold; as cool air; cool water.
2. Not ardent or zealous; not angry; not fond; not excited by passion of any kind; indifferent; as a cool friend; a cool temper; a cool lover.
3. Not retaining heat; light; as a cool dress.
COOL, noun A moderate state of cold; moderate temperature of the air between hot and cold; as the cool of the day; the cool of the morning or evening.
COOL, verb transitive
1. To allay heat; to make cool or cold; to reduce the temperature of a substance; as, ice wools water.
Send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue. Luke 16:24.
2. To moderate excitement of temper; to allay, as passion of any kind; to calm, as anger; to abate, as love; to moderate, as desire, zeal or ardor; to render indifferent.
COOL, verb intransitive
1. To become less hot; to lose heat. Let tea or coffee cool to the temperature of the blood, before it is drank.
2. To lose the heat of excitement or passion; to become less ardent, angry, zealous, or affectionate; to become more moderate. Speak not in a passion; first let your temper cool
COOL-CUP, noun A beverage that is cooling.
COOLED, participle passive Made less hot, or less ardent.
COOLER, noun
1. That which cools; any substance which abates heat or excitement; as, acids are coolers to the body.
2. A vessel in which liquors or other things are cooled.
COOL-HEADED, adjective Having a temper not easily excited; free from passion.
COOLING, participle present tense Abating heat or excitement; making or becoming cool.
COOLISH, adjective Somewhat cool.
COOLLY, adverb
1. Without heat or sharp cold.
2. In a cool or indifferent manner; not cordially; without passion or ardor. He was coolly received at court.
3. Without haste; calmly; deliberately. The design was formed coolly and executed with firmness.
COOLNESS, noun
1. A moderate degree of cold; a temperature between cold and heat; as the coolness of the summers evening.
2. A moderate degree, or a want of passion; want of ardor, or zeal; indifference; want of affection; as, they parted with coolness