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02319 Cool"ing (?), p.a. Adapted to cool and refresh; allaying heat. "The cooling brook."Goldsmith.Cooling card, something that dashes hopes. mark [Obs.] -- Cooling time (Law), such a lapse of time as ought, taking all the circumstances of the case in view, to produce a subsiding of passion previously provoked.Wharton.

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