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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Probably a past participle of the Middle English verb acolen (to grow cold or cool), from the Old English verb āclian (to grow cold); from the prefix a- (compare the Gothic er-, originally meaning out) + clian (to cool). See cool.

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