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English → English (gcide) Definition: Cold abscess Abscess \Ab"scess\, n.; pl. Abscesses. [L. abscessus a going away, gathering of humors, abscess, fr. abscessus, p. p. of absedere to go away; ab, abs + cedere to go off, retire. See Cede.] (Med.) A collection of pus or purulent matter in any tissue or organ of the body, the result of a morbid process. [1913 Webster] Cold abscess, an abscess of slow formation, unattended with the pain and heat characteristic of ordinary abscesses, and lasting for years without exhibiting any tendency towards healing; a chronic abscess. [1913 Webster] Cold \Cold\ (k[=o]ld), a. [Compar. Colder (-[~e]r); superl. Coldest.] [OE. cold, cald, AS. cald, ceald; akin to OS. kald, D. koud, G. kalt, Icel. kaldr, Dan. kold, Sw. kall, Goth. kalds, L. gelu frost, gelare to freeze. Orig. p. p. of AS. calan to be cold, Icel. kala to freeze. Cf. Cool, a., Chill, n.] 1. Deprived of heat, or having a low temperature; not warm or hot; gelid; frigid. “The snowy top of cold Olympis.” --Milton. [1913 Webster] 2. Lacking the sensation of warmth; suffering from the absence of heat; chilly; shivering; as, to be cold. [1913 Webster] 3. Not pungent or acrid. “Cold plants.” --Bacon [1913 Webster] 4. Wanting in ardor, intensity, warmth, zeal, or passion; spiritless; unconcerned; reserved. [1913 Webster] A cold and unconcerned spectator. --T. Burnet. [1913 Webster] No cold relation is a zealous citizen. --Burke. [1913 Webster] 5. Unwelcome; disagreeable; unsatisfactory. “Cold news for me.” “Cold comfort.” --Shak. [1913 Webster] 6. Wanting in power to excite; dull; uninteresting. [1913 Webster] What a deal of cold business doth a man misspend the better part of life in! --B. Jonson. [1913 Webster] The jest grows cold . . . when in comes on in a second scene. --Addison. [1913 Webster] 7. Affecting the sense of smell (as of hunting dogs) but feebly; having lost its odor; as, a cold scent. [1913 Webster] 8. Not sensitive; not acute. [1913 Webster] Smell this business with a sense as cold As is a dead man's nose. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 9. Distant; -- said, in the game of hunting for some object, of a seeker remote from the thing concealed. [1913 Webster] 10. (Paint.) Having a bluish effect. Cf. Warm, 8. [1913 Webster] Cold abscess. See under Abscess. Cold blast See under Blast, n., 2. Cold blood. See under Blood, n., 8. Cold chill, an ague fit. --Wright. Cold chisel, a chisel of peculiar strength and hardness, for cutting cold metal. --Weale. Cold cream. See under Cream. Cold slaw. See Cole slaw. In cold blood, without excitement or passion; deliberately. [1913 Webster] He was slain in cold blood after the fight was over. --Sir W. Scott. To give one the cold shoulder, to treat one with neglect. Syn: Gelid; bleak; frigid; chill; indifferent; unconcerned; passionless; reserved; unfeeling; stoical. [1913 Webster]

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