[f. COOL v. + -ING1.] The action of the verb COOL.
a. 1340. Hampole, Psalter, lvi. 2. In shadow of þi wengis … Þat is, in hilynge and kolynge of þi goednes and þi pite.
c. 1440. Promp. Parv., 87. Coolynge, frigefaccio.
c. 1540. in Vicary’s Anat. (1888), App. 227. In the coolyng, putt in thiese thinges folowing.
1886. Athenæum, 4 Sept., 298/2. Shrinkage consequent on the earth’s secular cooling.
b. fig.
1588. Greene, Perimedes, 39. The disdaine of thy parentage is a sufficient cooling to thee.
1640. O. Sedgwicke, Christs Counsell, 69. Take heed of the first coolings.
2. attrib. and Comb., as cooling-place; cooling-cup, a contrivance for cooling liquids, consisting of a cup into which is plunged another containing a heat-absorbing substance, as a solution of ammonium nitrate; cooling-floor, a large shallow tank or cooler in which wort is cooled.
1591. Percivall, Sp. Dict., Enfriadera, a cooling-place.
