cooler

Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

1.Moderately cold; between warm and cold; lacking in warmth; producing or promoting coolness. [1913 Webster]

Fanned with cool winds.— Milton.[1913 Webster]

2.Not ardent, warm, fond, or passionate; not hasty; deliberate; exercising self-control; self-possessed; dispassionate; indifferent; as, a cool lover; a cool debater. [1913 Webster]

For a patriot, too cool.— Goldsmith.[1913 Webster]

3.Not retaining heat; light; as, a cool dress. [1913 Webster]

4.Manifesting coldness or dislike; chilling; apathetic; as, a cool manner. [1913 Webster]

5.Quietly impudent; negligent of propriety in matters of minor importance, either ignorantly or willfully; presuming and selfish; audacious; as, cool behavior. [1913 Webster]

Its cool stare of familiarity was intolerable.— Hawthorne.[1913 Webster]

6.Applied facetiously, in a vague sense, to a sum of money, commonly as if to give emphasis to the largeness of the amount. [1913 Webster]

He had lost a cool hundred.— Fielding.[1913 Webster]

Leaving a cool thousand to Mr. Matthew Pocket.— Dickens.

Syn: Calm; dispassionate; self-possessed; composed; repulsive; frigid; alienated; impudent. [1913 Webster]

If acid things were used only as coolers, they would not be so proper in this case. --Arbuthnot. [1913 Webster]

2.Anything in or by which liquids or other things are cooled, as an ice chest, a vessel for ice water, etc. [1913 Webster]

3.An alcoholic beverage containing liquor or wine plus a carbonated beverage, usually served with ice. [PJC]

4.jail; -- usually used in the form the cooler. [slang] [PJC]

4.an air conditioner. [PJC] cool-headed