Chis·el n.  A tool with a cutting edge on one end of a metal blade, used in dressing, shaping, or working in timber, stone, metal, etc.; -- usually driven by a mallet or hammer.
 Cold chisel. See under Cold, a.
 Cold a. [Compar. Colder superl. Coldest.]
 1. Deprived of heat, or having a low temperature; not warm or hot; gelid; frigid. “The snowy top of cold Olympis.”
 2. Lacking the sensation of warmth; suffering from the absence of heat; chilly; shivering; as, to be cold.
 3. Not pungent or acrid. “Cold plants.”
 4. Wanting in ardor, intensity, warmth, zeal, or passion; spiritless; unconcerned; reserved.
    A cold and unconcerned spectator.   --T. Burnet.
    No cold relation is a zealous citizen.   --Burke.
 5. Unwelcome; disagreeable; unsatisfactory. “Cold news for me.” “Cold comfort.”
 6. Wanting in power to excite; dull; uninteresting.
    What a deal of cold business doth a man misspend the better part of life in!   --B. Jonson.
    The jest grows cold . . . when in comes on in a second scene.   --Addison.
 7. Affecting the sense of smell (as of hunting dogs) but feebly; having lost its odor; as, a cold scent.
 8. Not sensitive; not acute.
 Smell this business with a sense as cold
 As is a dead man's nose.   --Shak.
 9. Distant; -- said, in the game of hunting for some object, of a seeker remote from the thing concealed.
 10. Paint. Having a bluish effect. Cf. Warm, 8.
 Cold abscess. See under Abscess.
 Cold blast See under Blast, n., 2.
 Cold blood. See under Blood, n., 8.
 Cold chill, an ague fit. --Wright.
 Cold chisel, a chisel of peculiar strength and hardness, for cutting cold metal. --Weale.
 Cold cream. See under Cream.
 Cold slaw. See Cole slaw.
 In cold blood, without excitement or passion; deliberately.
    He was slain in cold blood after the fight was over.   --Sir W. Scott.
 To give one the cold shoulder, to treat one with neglect.
 Syn: -- Gelid; bleak; frigid; chill; indifferent; unconcerned; passionless; reserved; unfeeling; stoical.
 cold chisel
      n : narrow chisel made of steel; used to cut stone or bricks
          [syn: set chisel]