Cold-shut

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  ·noun A door or cover; a shutter. II. Shut ·Impf & ·p.p. of Shut. III. Shut ·adj Closed or fastene...

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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 ...

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• to shut up

  To hold one's tongue. A vulgar expression. Jones was singing, "'Tis the Star Spangled Banner;" but ...

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• water-shut

  An old name for a flood-gate. ...

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• 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

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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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• Key-cold

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• Stone-cold

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• Cold Abbeye

  A tenement so called in Wendageynes Lane held under the Fraternity of St. Katherine in the Church of...

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• cold pye

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

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• cold burning

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

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• cold cook

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

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• cold iron

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

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• cold meat

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

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• cold pig

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

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• cold pudding

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

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• bitter cold

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

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• cold fire

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

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• cold-chisel

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

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• cold-eel

  The Gymnotus electricus. ...

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• shut in, to

  Said of landmarks or points of land, when one is brought to transit and overlap the other, or interc...

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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 ...

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• finish. the finish; a small coffee-house in coven garden, market, opposite russel-street, open very early in the morning, and therefore resorted to by debauchees shut out of every other house: it is also called carpenter's coffee- house.

  Introducing a story by head and shoulders. A man wanting to tell a particular story, said to the com...

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