Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Cold.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective obsolete Cold.
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- adjective obsolete Of a person, feeling
cold .
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- adjective of persons; feeling cold
Etymologies
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Examples
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She is acold, manipulative lair, We need integrity in the White House.
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As such, Nature willeventually force us to unite and cooperate with one another or we will destroy each other trying to stay alive in acold andincreasinglyhostile climate.
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The twin tails and skirt have lots of wiggle even with littlerod movement, which helps to entice smallies that have gotten lockjaw during acold front.
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Then sprang ye forth and went your way, and I abode there alone, sitting an whole day, sore and hungry and acold.
Song and Legend from the Middle Ages Porter Lander MacClintock 1906
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Ingram was away on one of his long absences, and she felt acold.
Rest Harrow A Comedy of Resolution Maurice Hewlett 1892
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Here you shall light a fire, which those who watch will believe to be but the fire of a herdsman who is acold.
The Wizard Henry Rider Haggard 1890
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She might rightly say with Shakspeare, "Poor Tom's acold."
Without Dogma Henryk Sienkiewicz 1881
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Could be dark as tombs that strike the spirit acold
A Midsummer Holiday and Other Poems Algernon Charles Swinburne 1873
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'Mayhappen not,' he said; 'yet yesterday I could not but look into the slaughter to come, and it seemed to me a grim thing, and darkened the day for me; and I grew acold as a man walking with the dead.
The Roots of the Mountains; Wherein Is Told Somewhat of the Lives of the Men of Burgdale William Morris 1865
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And earth is acold ere dawning, and new winds shake the night.
The Story of Sigurd the Volsung William Morris 1865
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