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  1. adjective Having a low temperature.
  2. adjective Having a temperature lower than normal body temperature.
  3. adjective Feeling no warmth; uncomfortably chilled.
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  • With a weary sigh (for his cold was a severe one and he wanted to finish and get home), he took the witness back to the events of the preceding Wednesday. —  Busman’s Honeymoon
  • She was cold --the fur wrap that Marsha had loaned her was for show, not warmth -- but the cold was a distant feeling somehow unreal. —  F ;SF; - vol 089 issue 01 - July 1995
  • Unfortunately for Emrick, what sounded like a cold is actually a case of laryngitis. —  FanHouse
  • Yet, fierce as the cold was here, it was impossible it could be comparable with the rigours of the parts in which this schooner had originally got locked up in the ice. —  The Frozen Pirate
  • 217. HOW TO MAKE TREACLE POSSET Sweeten a pint of milk with four table-spoonfuls of treacle, boil this for ten minutes; strain it through a rag; drink it while hot, and go to bed well covered with blankets; and your cold will be all the less and you the better for it No. —  A Plain Cookery Book for the Working Classes
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  1. Middle English, from Old English ceald; see gel- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. = Scots and English dial. cauld, caud; from Middle English cold, cald, from Anglo-Saxon ceald, cald (= Old Saxon kald = OFries. kald = Middle Dutch kout, Dutch koud = Middle Low German kalt, Low German kold, kald, kolt = Old High German chalt, Middle High German G. kalt = Icelandic kaldr = Swedish kall = Danish kold = Gothic (Moesogothic) kalds, cold), an old past participle form in -d (like ol-d, lou-d, dea-d), from the strong verb preserved in Anglo-Saxon calan (= Icelandic kala), become cold, later cōl, English cool, and ciele, English chill; akin to L. gelus, gelu, frost, cold, gelidus, cool, cold, gelare, freeze, etc.: see cool and chill, and gelid, jelly, gelatine, congeal.
  2. from Middle English cold, cald, from Anglo-Saxon ceald = Gothic (Moesogothic) kald, n., cold, = (with different termination) OFries. kalde, kelde = Dutch koude = Middle Low German kolde, kulde, kuldene = Old High German chalti, Middle High German kalte, kelte = German kälte, feminine, = Danish kulde = Swedish köld, masculine, cold; from the adjective
  3. from Middle English colden (cf. equivalent chelden: see cheld), from Anglo-Saxon cealdian (= Middle Low German kolden, kulden = German kälten, chill), grow cold, from ceald, cold: see cold, adjective
 

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