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Cold [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. Not warm or hot; gelid, frigid; a relative term. A substance is cold to the touch, when it is less warm then the body, and when in contact, the heat of the body passes from the body to the substance; as cold air; a cold stone; cold water. It denotes a greater degree of the quality than cool.

2. Having the sensation of cold; chill; shivering, or inclined to shiver; as, I am cold

3. Having cold qualities; as a cold plant.

4. Frigid; wanting passion, zeal ro ardor; indifferent; unconcerned; not animated, or easily excited into action; as a cold spectator; a cold Christian; a cold lover, or friend; a cold temper.

5. Thou art neither cold nor hot. Revelation 3:15 .

6. Not moving; unaffecting; not animated; not able to excite feeling; spiritless; as a cold discourse; a cold jest.

7. Reserved; coy; not affectionate, cordial or friendly; indicating indifference; as a cold look; a cold return of civilities; a cold reception.

8. Not heated by sensual desire.

9. Not hasty; not violent.

10. Not affecting the scent strongly.

11. Not having the scent strongly affected.

Cold [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. The sensation produced in animal bodies by the escape of heat, and the consequent contraction of the fine vessels. Also, the cause of that sensation. Heat expands the vessels, and cold contracts them; and the transition from an expanded to a contracted state is accompanied with a sensation to which, as well as to the cause of it, we give the denomination of cold Hence cold is a privation of heat, or the cause of it.

2. A shivering; the effect of the contraction of the fine vessels of the body; chilliness, or chillness.

3. A disease; indisposition occasioned by cold; catarrh.

Cold [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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.

5. Unwelcome; disagreeable; unsatisfactory.

6. Wanting in power to excite; dull; uninteresting.

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.

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.

11. The relative absence of heat or warmth.

12. The sensation produced by the escape of heat; chilliness or chillness.

13. A morbid state of the animal system produced by exposure to cold or dampness; a catarrh.

Cold [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

To become cold.

Cold-blooded [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. Having cold blood.

2. Without sensibility, or feeling.

Cold-blooded [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. Having cold blood; -- said of fish or animals whose blood is but little warmer than the water or air about them.

2. Deficient in sensibility or feeling; hard-hearted.

3. Not thoroughbred; -- said of animals, as horses, which are derived from the common stock of a country.

Cold-finch [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

A species of Motacilla, a bird frequenting the west of England, with the head and back of a brownish gray, the belly white, and the quill feathers and tail black.

Cold-hearted [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Wanting passion or feeling; indifferent.

Cold-hearted [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Wanting passion or feeling; indifferent.

Cold-heartedness [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Want of feeling or sensibility.

Cold-short [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Brittle when cold; as, cold-short iron.

Cold-shot [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Brittle when cold, as a metal.

Cold-shut [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Closed while too cold to become thoroughly welded; -- said of a forging or casting.

Cold-shut [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

An imperfection caused by such insufficient welding.

Coldfinch [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A British wagtail.

Coldish [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Somewhat cold; cool; chilly.

Coldly [Adverb] Webster's Dictionary 1828

In a cold manner; without warmth; without concern; without ardor or animation; without apparent passion, emotion or feeling; with indifference or negligence; as, to answer one coldly; a proposition is coldly received.

Coldly [Adverb] Webster's Dictionary 1913

In a cold manner; without warmth, animation, or feeling; with indifference; calmly.

Coldness [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. Want of heat; as the coldness or water or air. When the heat or temperature of any substance is less than that of the animal body exposed to it, that state or temperature is called coldness

2. Unconcern; indifference; a frigid state of temper; want of ardor, zeal, emotion, animation, or spirit; negligence; as, to receive an answer with coldness; to listen with coldness

3. Want of apparent affection, or kindness; as, to receive a friend with coldness

4. Coyness; reserve; indifference; as, to receive addresses with coldness

5. Want of sensual desire; frigidity; chastity.

Coldness [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

The state or quality of being cold.

Coldstream Encyclopedia Britannica

COLDSTREAM, a town of Scotland, in Berwickshire, 15 miles west of Berwick, on the north bank of the Tweed, there crossed by a bridge of five arches. It is situated on the principal thoroughfare between England and Scotland, and in the neighbourhood of the ford by which the Scotch and English armies were wont to cross the river in olden times. In the period before the Reformation it was the seat of a priory famous in history as the place where the Papal legate, in the reign of Henry VIII., published a bull against the printing of the Scriptures; and in the present century, by a curious irony of fate, the very site of the building was occupied by an establishment under Dr Adam Thomson for the production of Bibles at a low rate. Coldstream, like Gretna Green, was formerly celebrated for its irregular marriages. The regiment of Foot Guards known as the “Coldstream Guards” was so named from General Monk having set out with it from the town on his march into England in 1659. Population in 1871, 2619.

9th ed. Encyclopædia Britannica, vol. 6, p. 125
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Genesis 8:22

While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.

As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night shall never cease.”

Job 24:7

They cause the naked to lodge without clothing, that they have no covering in the cold.

Without clothing, they spend the night naked; they have no covering against the cold.

Job 37:9

Out of the south cometh the whirlwind: and cold out of the north.

The tempest comes from its chamber, and the cold from the driving north winds.

Psalms 147:17

He casteth forth his ice like morsels: who can stand before his cold?

He casts forth His hail like pebbles. Who can withstand His icy blast?

Proverbs 20:4

The sluggard will not plow by reason of the cold; therefore shall he beg in harvest, and have nothing.

The slacker does not plow in season; at harvest time he looks, but nothing is there.

Proverbs 25:13

As the cold of snow in the time of harvest, so is a faithful messenger to them that send him: for he refresheth the soul of his masters.

Like the cold of snow in the time of harvest is a trustworthy messenger to those who send him; he refreshes the soul of his masters.

Proverbs 25:20

As he that taketh away a garment in cold weather, and as vinegar upon nitre, so is he that singeth songs to an heavy heart.

Like one who removes a garment on a cold day or vinegar poured on a wound is one who sings songs to a heavy heart.

Proverbs 25:25

As cold waters to a thirsty soul, so is good news from a far country.

Like cold water to a weary soul is good news from a distant land.

Jeremiah 18:14

Will a man leave the snow of Lebanon which cometh from the rock of the field? or shall the cold flowing waters that come from another place be forsaken?

Does the snow of Lebanon ever leave its rocky slopes? Or do its cool waters flowing from a distance ever run dry?

Nahum 3:17

Thy crowned are as the locusts, and thy captains as the great grasshoppers, which camp in the hedges in the cold day, but when the sun ariseth they flee away, and their place is not known where they are.

Your guards are like the swarming locust, and your scribes like clouds of locusts that settle on the walls on a cold day. When the sun rises, they fly away, and no one knows where.

Zechariah 14:6

And it shall come to pass in that day, that the light shall not be clear, nor dark:

On that day there will be no light, no cold or frost.

Matthew 10:42

And whosoever shall give to drink unto one of these little ones a cup of cold water only in the name of a disciple, verily I say unto you, he shall in no wise lose his reward.

And if anyone gives even a cup of cold water to one of these little ones because he is My disciple, truly I tell you, he will never lose his reward.”

Matthew 24:12

And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold.

Because of the multiplication of wickedness, the love of most will grow cold.

John 18:18

And the servants and officers stood there, who had made a fire of coals; for it was cold: and they warmed themselves: and Peter stood with them, and warmed himself.

Because it was cold, the servants and officers were standing around a charcoal fire they had made to keep warm. And Peter was also standing with them, warming himself.

Acts 28:2

And the barbarous people shewed us no little kindness: for they kindled a fire, and received us every one, because of the present rain, and because of the cold.

The islanders showed us extraordinary kindness. They kindled a fire and welcomed all of us because it was raining and cold.

2 Corinthians 11:27

In weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.

in labor and toil and often without sleep, in hunger and thirst and often without food, in cold and exposure.

Revelation 3:15

I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot.

I know your deeds; you are neither cold nor hot. How I wish you were one or the other!

Revelation 3:16

So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth.

So because you are lukewarm—neither hot nor cold—I am about to vomit you out of My mouth!

2 Esdras 3:19

And thy glory went through four gates, of fire, and of earthquake, and of wind, and of cold; that thou mightest give the law unto the seed of Jacob, and diligence unto the generation of Israel.

Sirach 43:20

When the cold north wind bloweth, and the water is congealed into ice, it abideth upon every gathering together of water, and clotheth the water as with a breastplate.