Coolest

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Cool \Cool\, a. [Compar. {Cooler}; superl. {Coolest}.] [AS.
     c[=o]l; akin to D. koel, G. k["u]hl, OHG. chouli, Dan.
     k["o]lig, Sw. kylig, also to AS. calan to be cold, Icel.
     kala. See {Cold}, and cf. {Chill}.]
     1. Moderately cold; between warm and cold; lacking in warmth;
        producing or promoting coolness.


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              Fanned with cool winds.               --Milton.
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     2. Not ardent, warm, fond, or passionate; not hasty;
        deliberate; exercising self-control; self-possessed;
        dispassionate; indifferent; as, a cool lover; a cool
        debater.
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              For a patriot, too cool.              --Goldsmith.
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     3. Not retaining heat; light; as, a cool dress.
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     4. Manifesting coldness or dislike; chilling; apathetic; as,
        a cool manner.
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     5. Quietly impudent; negligent of propriety in matters of
        minor importance, either ignorantly or willfully;
        presuming and selfish; audacious; as, cool behavior.
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              Its cool stare of familiarity was intolerable.
                                                    --Hawthorne.
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     6. Applied facetiously, in a vague sense, to a sum of money,
        commonly as if to give emphasis to the largeness of the
        amount.
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              He had lost a cool hundred.           --Fielding.
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              Leaving a cool thousand to Mr. Matthew Pocket.
                                                    --Dickens.
  
     Syn: Calm; dispassionate; self-possessed; composed;
          repulsive; frigid; alienated; impudent.
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