Obs. Also 4 coold. [OE. *caldian, cealdian, to become cold, f. cald, ceald, COLD a. Cf. deriv. acealdian, ACOLD. See also KELD v.]
1. intr. To become cold. (Also fig.)
a. 1000. Riming Poem, 69 (Gr.). Eorþmæʓen ealdaþ, ellen cealdaþ [MS. cólaþ].
c. 1320. Sir Beues, 4603. Er her body be-gan to colde.
c. 1374. Chaucer, Troylus, V. 1671. Ful sodeynli his herte gan to colde.
c. 1380. Wyclif, Sel. Wks., III. 438. Charite of many cooldiþ.
c. 1400. Pol. Rel. & L. Poems (1866), 220. Whanne þe ffet coldeth.
c. 1450. Lonelich, Grail, xiii. 828. Sone his herte be-gan to colde.
2. trans. To make cold; to chill.
c. 1385. Chaucer, L. G. W., Prol. 240. His loking dooth myn herte colde.
a. 1400[?]. Morte Arth., 3519. Thowe coldis myne herte!
1598. R. Haydocke, trans. Lomazzo’s Artes, V. 193. The selfe same power of washing, colding, heating, and burning.
