2. The sensation produced by the escape of heat; chilliness or chillness.

When she saw her lord prepared to part,

A deadly cold ran shivering to her heart.

Dryden.

3. (Med.) A morbid state of the animal system produced by exposure to cold or dampness; a catarrh.

Cold sore (Med.), a vesicular eruption appearing about the mouth as the result of a cold, or in the course of any disease attended with fever. -- To leave one out in the cold, to overlook or neglect him. [Colloq.]

Cold, v. i. To become cold. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Cold"-blood`ed (?), a. 1. Having cold blood; -- said of fish or animals whose blood is but little warmer than the water or air about them.

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