Cold Abbeye

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• Cold

  ·vi To become cold. II. Cold ·noun Not pungent or acrid. III. Cold ·noun Not sensitive; not acute....

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• cold

  You will catch cold at that; a vulgar threat or advice to desist from an attempt. He caught cold by ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• Cold wave

  ·add. ·- In the terminology of the United States Weather Bureau, an unusual fall in temperature, to ...

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• Cold-blooded

  ·adj Deficient in sensibility or feeling; hard-hearted. II. Cold-blooded ·adj Not thoroughbred; — ...

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• Cold-hearted

  ·adj Wanting passion or feeling; indifferent. ...

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• Cold-short

  ·adj Brittle when cold; as, cold-short iron. II. Cold-short ·add. ·adj Brittle when cold (that is, ...

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• Cold-shut

  ·noun An imperfection caused by such insufficient welding. II. Cold-shut ·adj Closed while too cold...

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• Key-cold

  ·adj Cold as a metallic key; lifeless. ...

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• Stone-cold

  ·adj Cold as a stone. ...

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• cold pye

  A punishment inflicted on any person sleeping in company: it consists in wrapping up cotton in a cas...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• cold burning

  A punishment inflicted by private soldiers on their comrades for trifling offences, or breach of the...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• cold cook

  An undertaker of funerals, or carrion hunter. See carrion hunter. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• cold iron

  A sword, or any other weapon for cutting or stabbing. I gave him two inches of cold iron into his be...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• cold meat

  A dead wife is the beat cold meat in a man's house. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• cold pig

  To give cold pig is a punishment inflicted on sluggards who lie too long in bed: it consists in pull...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• cold pudding

  This is said to settle one's love. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• bitter cold

  Very cold. This common colloquial expression is used alike in England and America. Those who say it...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• cold fire

  a fire laid ready for lighting. York. ...

  A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose

• cold-chisel

  A stout chisel made of steel, used for cutting iron when it is cold. ...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• cold-eel

  The Gymnotus electricus. ...

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• cold as presbyterian charity

  I know not the origin of this saying, and am not aware that there is less charity in this sect than ...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.