cookmaid

[Eng. cook, and maid.] A maid or female servant who prepares food for the table by cooking. “. Sisly, the cook-maid, Bee, No. VIII. cook'-rôom, s. [Eng. cook, and room.] 1. Ord. Lang.: A kitchen. ."-Goldsmith: The 2. Naut .: The galley of a ship; a room in which the food is prepared for the crew; a cookhouse. their forecastles, in all their ships the cook - rooms are built in."-Raleigh: E ays. côol, *cole, *coole, *coule, a . & s. [A. S. cól ; Dut. koel ; Dan. köl , kölig =cool, chilly; Icel. kul =a cold breeze; Sw. kylig ; Ger. kühl =cool.] [COLD.] A. As adjective : I. Literally : 1. Slightly or moderately cold; of a temperature between hot and cold. "Coolde (Cole or sumwhat colde P.). Algidus ." Prompt . Parv . 2. Cooling; affording a degree of coolne . "To rest thy weary person in the shadow coole?" Spenser: F. Q., II. vii. 63. 3. Not retaining or causing heat; light. II. Figuratively: IMG:content-0881.png:[blocks in formation] Destr. of Troy, 9,255. (3) Deliberate; not done or determined on hastily. (4) Manifesting coolne or frigidity of feeling; repellant. (5) Impudent, presuming. ( Colloquial .) (1) A cool card : An impudent, self-po e ed fellow, whom nothing can put out of countenance. ( Slang .) (2) Used of money; implying a large sum. (Dickens: Great Expectations , ch. lvii.) B. As subst.: Coolne ; moderate temperature. "They that wolde ride in the cole of the mornynge." Merlin , I. ii. 191. Crabb thus discriminates between cool, cold, and frigid : "In the natural sense, cool is simply the absence of warmth; cold and frigid are positively contrary to warmth; the former in regard to objects in general, the latter to moral objects: in the physical sense the analogy is strictly preserved. With regard to the pa ions, cool designates a freedom from agitation, which is a desirable quality. Coolne in a time of danger, and coolne in an argument, are alike commendable. As cool and cold respect affections, the is opposed to the friendly, the cold to the warmhearted, the frigid to the animated: the former is but a degree of the latter. A reception is said to be cool ; an embrace to be cold ; a sentiment frigid . Coolne is an Owhyhee, in the Sandwich Islands, Feb. 14, 1779.] enemy to social enjoyments; coldne is an enemy Bot. A genus of plants, order Aurantiacee; that to every moral virtue: frigidity destroys all force of it supposes the previous existence of warmth; to which the belongs. It consists of small character. Coolne is engendered by circumstances: trees with unequally pinnate leaves. Cookia punc tat a bears an eatable fruit called Wampee, about coldne lies often in the temperament, or is engenthe size of a pigeon's egg. It is esteemed as food dered by habit; it is always something vicious; in China and the Indian Archipelago. There are other species of the same genus, known also by the name of Wampee. cook-le, cook'-ý, s. [Dut. koekje a little cake, dim in. of koek =a cake.] A kind of small sweet cake for eating at tea. "Muckle obliged to ye for your cookies , Mrs. Short cake." Scott: Antiquary, ch. xv. cook'-ing, pr. par., a. & s. [Cook (1), v.] frigidity is occasional, and is always a defect. Trifling differences produce coolne sometimes between the best friends: trade sometimes engenders a cold calculating temper in some minds; those who are are remarkable for apathy will often expre themselves with frigid indifference on the most important subjects." (Crabb: Eng . Synon.) For the difference between cool and dispa ion ate, see DISPASSIONATE.