3 definitions found
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Cooling \Cool"ing\, p.a.
Adapted to cool and refresh; allaying heat. ``The cooling
brook.'' --Goldsmith.
{Cooling card}, something that dashes hopes. [Obs.]
{Cooling time} (Law), 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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Cool \Cool\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Cooled}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Cooling}.]
1. To make cool or cold; to reduce the temperature of; as,
ice cools water.
Send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger
in water, and cool my tongue. --Luke xvi.
24.
2. To moderate the heat or excitement of; to allay, as
passion of any kind; to calm; to moderate.
We have reason to cool our raging motions, our
carnal stings, our unbitted lusts. --Shak.
{To cool the heels}, to dance attendance; to wait, as for
admission to a patron's house. [Colloq.] --Dryden.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
cooling
n 1: the process of becoming cooler; a falling temperature [syn:
{chilling}, {temperature reduction}]
2: a mechanism for keeping something cool; "the cooling was
overhead fans" [syn: {cooling system}]