Cool
Webster's Dictionary [1]
(1): (superl.) Not retaining heat; light; as, a cool dress.
(2): (n.) A moderate state of cold; coolness; - said of the temperature of the air between hot and cold; as, the cool of the day; the cool of the morning or evening.
(3): (superl.) Moderately cold; between warm and cold; lacking in warmth; producing or promoting coolness.
(4): (superl.) Not ardent, warm, fond, or passionate; not hasty; deliberate; exercising self-control; self-possessed; dispassionate; indifferent; as, a cool lover; a cool debater.
(5): (v. i.) To become less hot; to lose heat.
(6): (v. i.) To lose the heat of excitement or passion; to become more moderate.
(7): (superl.) Manifesting coldness or dislike; chilling; apathetic; as, a cool manner.
(8): (v. t.) To moderate the heat or excitement of; to allay, as passion of any kind; to calm; to moderate.
(9): (v. t.) To make cool or cold; to reduce the temperature of; as, ice cools water.
(10): (superl.) Quietly impudent; negligent of propriety in matters of minor importance, either ignorantly or willfully; presuming and selfish; audacious; as, cool behavior.
(11): (superl.) Applied facetiously, in a vague sense, to a sum of money, commonly as if to give emphasis to the largeness of the amount.
King James Dictionary [2]
COOL, a. G., cold, to cool chilliness to blow strong.
1. Moderately cold being of a temperature between hot and cold as cool air cool water. 2. Not ardent or zealous not angry not fond not excited by passion of any kind indifferent as a cool friend a cool temper a cool lover. 3. Not retaining heat light as a cool dress.
COOL, n. A moderate state of cold moderate temperature of the air between hot and cold as the cool of the day the cool of the morning or evening.
COOL,
1. To allay heat to make cool or cold to reduce the temperature of a substance as, ice wools water.
Send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue. Luke 16 .
2. To moderate excitement of temper to allay, as passion of any kind to calm, as anger to abate, as love to moderate, as desire, zeal or ardor to render indifferent.
COOL,
1. To become less hot to lose heat. Let tea or coffee cool to the temperature of the blood, before it is drank. 2. To lose the heat of excitement or passion to become less ardent, angry, zealous, or affectionate to become more moderate. Speak not in a passion first let your temper cool.
Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words [3]
Luke 16:24 , denotes "to cool off, make cool" (kata, "down," psucho, "to cool"). In the Sept., Genesis 18:4 .
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia [4]
kool ( רוּח , rūaḥ , "wind"; καταψύχω , katapsúchō , "to cool down"): "Cool of the day" ( Genesis 3:8 , margin "wind"), when the evening breeze has tempered the heat of the day, enabling Orientals to walk abroad. "Cool my tongue" ( Luke 16:24 ), a phrase reflecting the Jewish notion that Abraham had power to rescue his descendants from the fires of Hades.
