Word Meanings - REFRIGERATORY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Mitigating heat; cooling.

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• MITIGATORY
  Tending to mitigate or alleviate; mitigative.
• COOL-HEADED
  Having a temper not easily excited; free from passion. -- Cool"-head`ed*ness, n.
• 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.
• MITIGATOR
  One who, or that which, mitigates.
• 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,
• COOLY; COOLIE
  An East Indian porter or carrier; a laborer transported from the East Indies, China, or Japan, for service in some other country.
• COOLIE
  See COOLY
• COOLLY
  Coolish; cool. Spenser.
• MITIGATIVE
  Tending to mitigate; alleviating.
• COOLISH
  Somewhat cool. The nights began to grow a little coolish. Goldsmith.
• MITIGATE
  1. To make less severe, intense, harsh, rigorous, painful, etc.; to soften; to meliorate; to alleviate; to diminish; to lessen; as, to mitigate heat or cold; to mitigate grief. 2. To make mild and accessible; to mollify; -- applied to persons.
• MITIGATION
  The act of mitigating, or the state of being mitigated; abatement or diminution of anything painful, harsh, severe, afflictive, or calamitous; as, the mitigation of pain, grief, rigor, severity, punishment, or penalty. Syn. -- Alleviation;
• COOL
  D. koel, G. kühl, OHG. chouli, Dan. kölig, Sw. kylig, also to AS. 1. Moderately cold; between warm and cold; lacking in warmth; producing or promoting coolness. Fanned with cool winds. Milton. 2. Not ardent, warm, fond, or passionate; not hasty;
• 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
• AIR COOLING
  In gasoline-engine motor vehicles, the cooling of the cylinder by increasing its radiating surface by means of ribs or radiators, and placing it so that it is exposed to a current of air. Cf. Water cooling. -- Air"-cooled`, a.