cold cream
    n 1: a cream used cosmetically (mostly by women) for softening
         and cleaning the skin [syn: cold cream, coldcream,
         face cream, vanishing cream]

Cream \Cream\ (kr[=e]m), n. [F. cr[^e]me, perh. fr. LL. crema
   cream of milk; cf. L. cremor thick juice or broth, perh. akin
   to cremare to burn.]
   1. The rich, oily, and yellowish part of milk, which, when
      the milk stands unagitated, rises, and collects on the
      surface. It is the part of milk from which butter is
      obtained.
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   2. The part of any liquor that rises, and collects on the
      surface. [R.]
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   3. A delicacy of several kinds prepared for the table from
      cream, etc., or so as to resemble cream.
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   4. A cosmetic; a creamlike medicinal preparation.
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            In vain she tries her paste and creams,
            To smooth her skin or hide its seams. --Goldsmith.
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   5. The best or choicest part of a thing; the quintessence;
      as, the cream of a jest or story; the cream of a
      collection of books or pictures.
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            Welcome, O flower and cream of knights errant.
                                                  --Shelton.
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   Bavarian cream, a preparation of gelatin, cream, sugar, and
      eggs, whipped; -- to be eaten cold.

   Cold cream, an ointment made of white wax, almond oil, rose
      water, and borax, and used as a salve for the hands and
      lips.

   Cream cheese, a kind of cheese made from curd from which
      the cream has not been taken off, or to which cream has
      been added.

   Cream gauge, an instrument to test milk, being usually a
      graduated glass tube in which the milk is placed for the
      cream to rise.

   Cream nut, the Brazil nut.

   Cream of lime.
      (a) A scum of calcium carbonate which forms on a solution
          of milk of lime from the carbon dioxide of the air.
      (b) A thick creamy emulsion of lime in water.

   Cream of tartar (Chem.), purified tartar or argol; so
      called because of the crust of crystals which forms on the
      surface of the liquor in the process of purification by
      recrystallization. It is a white crystalline substance,
      with a gritty acid taste, and is used very largely as an
      ingredient of baking powders; -- called also potassium
      bitartrate, acid potassium tartrate, etc.
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Cold \Cold\ (k[=o]ld), a. [Compar. Colder (-[~e]r); superl.
   Coldest.] [OE. cold, cald, AS. cald, ceald; akin to OS.
   kald, D. koud, G. kalt, Icel. kaldr, Dan. kold, Sw. kall,
   Goth. kalds, L. gelu frost, gelare to freeze. Orig. p. p. of
   AS. calan to be cold, Icel. kala to freeze. Cf. Cool, a.,
   Chill, n.]
   1. Deprived of heat, or having a low temperature; not warm or
      hot; gelid; frigid. "The snowy top of cold Olympis."
      --Milton.
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   2. Lacking the sensation of warmth; suffering from the
      absence of heat; chilly; shivering; as, to be cold.
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   3. Not pungent or acrid. "Cold plants." --Bacon
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   4. Wanting in ardor, intensity, warmth, zeal, or passion;
      spiritless; unconcerned; reserved.
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            A cold and unconcerned spectator.     --T. Burnet.
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            No cold relation is a zealous citizen. --Burke.
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   5. Unwelcome; disagreeable; unsatisfactory. "Cold news for
      me." "Cold comfort." --Shak.
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   6. Wanting in power to excite; dull; uninteresting.
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            What a deal of cold business doth a man misspend the
            better part of life in!               --B. Jonson.
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            The jest grows cold . . . when in comes on in a
            second scene.                         --Addison.
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   7. Affecting the sense of smell (as of hunting dogs) but
      feebly; having lost its odor; as, a cold scent.
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   8. Not sensitive; not acute.
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            Smell this business with a sense as cold
            As is a dead man's nose.              --Shak.
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   9. Distant; -- said, in the game of hunting for some object,
      of a seeker remote from the thing concealed.
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   10. (Paint.) Having a bluish effect. Cf. Warm, 8.
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   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.
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            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.
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