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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Cool a. [Compar. Cooler superl. Coolest.]
 1. Moderately cold; between warm and cold; lacking in warmth; producing or promoting coolness.
    Fanned with cool winds.   --Milton.
 2. Not ardent, warm, fond, or passionate; not hasty; deliberate; exercising self-control; self-possessed; dispassionate; indifferent; as, a cool lover; a cool debater.
    For a patriot, too cool.   --Goldsmith.
 3. Not retaining heat; light; as, a cool dress.
 4. Manifesting coldness or dislike; chilling; apathetic; as, a cool manner.
 5. Quietly impudent; negligent of propriety in matters of minor importance, either ignorantly or willfully; presuming and selfish; audacious; as, cool behavior.
    Its cool stare of familiarity was intolerable.   --Hawthorne.
 6. Applied facetiously, in a vague sense, to a sum of money, commonly as if to give emphasis to the largeness of the amount.
    He had lost a cool hundred.   --Fielding.
    Leaving a cool thousand to Mr. Matthew Pocket.   --Dickens.
 Syn: -- Calm; dispassionate; self-possessed; composed; repulsive; frigid; alienated; impudent.