Word Meanings - COOLING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Adapted to cool and refresh; allaying heat. "The cooling brook." Goldsmith. Cooling card, something that dashes hopes. -- Cooling time , such a lapse of time as ought, taking all the circumstances of the case in view, to produce a subsiding of

Additional info about word: COOLING

Adapted to cool and refresh; allaying heat. "The cooling brook." Goldsmith. Cooling card, something that dashes hopes. -- Cooling time , such a lapse of time as ought, taking all the circumstances of the case in view, to produce a subsiding of passion previously provoked. Wharton.

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• TAKING
  1. Apt to take; alluring; attracting. Subtile in making his temptations most taking. Fuller. 2. Infectious; contageous. Beau. & Fl. -- Tak"ing*ly, adv. -- Tak"ing*ness, n.
• ADAPTABLE
  Capable of being adapted.
• OUGHT
  See AUGHT
• PRODUCEMENT
  Production.
• COOL-HEADED
  Having a temper not easily excited; free from passion. -- Cool"-head`ed*ness, n.
• TAKE
  Taken. Chaucer.
• TAKE-OFF
  An imitation, especially in the way of caricature.
• COOLNESS
  1. The state of being cool; a moderate degree of cold; a moderate degree, or a want, of passion; want of ardor, zeal, or affection; calmness. 2. Calm impudence; self-possession.
• REFRESHMENT
  1. The act of refreshing, or the state of being refreshed; restoration of strength, spirit, vigor, or liveliness; relief after suffering; new life or animation after depression. 2. That which refreshes; means of restoration or reanimation;
• ADAPTNESS
  Adaptedness.
• SUBSIDY
  stationed in reserve in the third line of battlem reserve, support, help, fr. subsidere to sit down, lie in wait: cf. F. subside. See 1. Support; aid; coöperation; esp., extraordinary aid in money rendered to the sovereign or to a friendly power.
• LAPSED
  1. Having slipped downward, backward, or away; having lost position, privilege, etc., by neglect; -- restricted to figurative uses. Once more I will renew His lapsed powers, though forfeit. Milton. 2. Ineffectual, void, or forfeited; as, a lapsed
• COOLER
  That which cools, or abates heat or excitement. if acid things were used only as coolers, they would not be so proper in this case. Arbuthnot. 2. Anything in or by which liquids or other things are cooled, as an ice chest, a vessel for ice water,
• BROOK
  A natural stream of water smaller than a river or creek. The Lord thy God bringeth thee into a good land, a land of brooks of water. Deut. viii. 7. Empires itself, as doth an inland brook Into the main of waters. Shak. (more info) LG. brok, marshy
• BROOKITE
  A mineral consisting of titanic oxide, and hence identical with rutile and octahedrite in composition, but crystallizing in the orthorhombic system.
• ADAPTIVE
  Suited, given, or tending, to adaptation; characterized by adaptation; capable of adapting. Coleridge. -- A*dapt"ive*ly, adv.
• COOLY; COOLIE
  An East Indian porter or carrier; a laborer transported from the East Indies, China, or Japan, for service in some other country.
• OUGHTNESS
  The state of being as a thing ought to be; rightness. N. W. Taylor.
• TAKE-IN
  Imposition; fraud.
• ROUGHT
  imp. of Reach.
• UNMISTAKABLE
  Incapable of being mistaken or misunderstood; clear; plain; obvious; evident. -- Un`mis*tak"a*bly, adv.
• BOUGHT
  1. A flexure; a bend; a twist; a turn; a coil, as in a rope; as the boughts of a serpent. Spenser. The boughts of the fore legs. Sir T. Browne. 2. The part of a sling that contains the stone.
• LEAVE-TAKING
  Taking of leave; parting compliments. Shak.
• MISTAKING
  An error; a mistake. Shak.
• PROLAPSE
  The falling down of a part through the orifice with which it is naturally connected, especially of the uterus or the rectum. Dunglison.
• HIGH-WROUGHT
  1. Wrought with fine art or skill; elaborate. Pope. 2. Worked up, or swollen, to a high degree; as, a highwrought passion. "A high-wrought flood." Shak.
• DREADNOUGHT
  1. A British battleship, completed in 1906 -- 1907, having an armament consisting of ten 12-inch guns, and of twenty-four 12-pound quick-fire guns for protection against torpedo boats. This was the first battleship of the type characterized by
• DELAPSE
  To pass down by inheritance; to lapse. Which Anne derived alone the right, before all other, Of the delapsed crown from Philip. Drayton.
• MISTAKINGLY
  Erroneously.
• THOUGHT
  imp. & p. p. of Think.
• BETHOUGHT
  imp. & p. p. of Bethink.
• MOUGHT
  of May. Might.
• OUTTAKE
  Except. R. of Brunne.
• DROUGHTY
  1. Characterized by drought; wanting rain; arid; adust. Droughty and parched countries. Ray. 2. Dry; thirsty; wanting drink. Thy droughty throat. Philips.