For forms see prec. [f. COOL a. Cf. OHG. chuoli, MHG. küele, mod.G. kühle.]
1. That which is cool: the cool part, place, time, thing, etc.
a. 1400–50. Alexander, 5534. To see quat selcuthe is seet in þe salt watir, How many kind of creatours þat in þe cole duellis.
c. 1450. Merlin, 191. As they that wolde ride in the cole of the mornynge.
a. 1533. Ld. Berners, Huon, lxvi. 227. It were good for us to aryse … it is good to ryde in the coole.
1535. Coverdale, Gen. iii. 8. In the coole of the daye [so 1611].
1713. Addison, Cato, III. But see where Lucia … Amid the cool of yon high marble arch, Enjoys the noon-day breeze!
1863. Mrs. Carlyle, Lett., III. 171. He … goes for his ride in the cool of the evening.
1879. Browning, Pheidippides, 64. There in the cool of a cleft, sat he—majestical Pan!
† 2. A cool breeze, a light and refreshing wind.
1393. Gower, Conf., II. 231. The wind stood thanne nought amis, But every topsaile cole it blewe.
a. 1470. Tiptoft, Caesar, iii. (1530), 4. That he had a good and convenable time and also a good cole.
1506. Guylford, Pilgr., 72. The wynde began to blow a ryght good coole in oure waye.
1558. Phaër, Æneid, III. A mery coole of wynde them fast pursueth.
1565–73. Cooper, Thesaurus, Aura… a softe coole of wynde. Aprica Zephyri aura, a warme coole of [wynde].
3. Coolness.
14[?]. Songs & Carols (1847), 35. A pilion or taberd to wer in hete or cole.
1535. Coverdale, Prov. xxv. 13. Like as the wynter coole in the haruest.
1667. Milton, P. L., IX. 1109. There oft the Indian Herdsman shunning heate Shelters in coole.
1860. Sir T. Martin, Horace, 133. Thou a grateful cool dost yield To the flocks that range afield.
4. fig.
1617. Bp. Hall, Recoll. Treat., 1112. God loves to give us cools and heats in our desires.
1659. W. Brough, Sacr. Princ., 291. Men of intemperate heates and cooles in religion.
1714. Arbuthnot, etc., Mart. Scriblerus, II. ix. To treat … of the emollients and opiates of poesy, of the cool, and the manner of producing it.
