Adjective

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Having a slightly low temperature; mildly or pleasantly cold.

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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=8 , passage=The day was cool and snappy for August, and the Rise all green with a lavish nature. Now we plunged into a deep shade with the boughs lacing each other overhead, and crossed dainty, rustic bridges over the cold trout-streams, the boards giving back the clatter of our horses' feet:

Allowing or suggesting heat relief.

* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)

, chapter=2 citation , passage=Now that she had rested and had fed from the luncheon tray Mrs. Broome had just removed, she had reverted to her normal gaiety.  She looked cool in a grey tailored cotton dress with a terracotta scarf and shoes and her hair a black silk helmet.}}

Of a person, not showing emotion, calm and in self-control.

Unenthusiastic, lukewarm, skeptical.

Calmly audacious.

* (Nathaniel Hawthorne) (1804-1864)

Its cool stare of familiarity was intolerable.

* 1944 November 28, Irving Brecher and Fred F. Finklehoffe, Meet Me in St. Louis , Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer:

My father was talking to the World's Fair Commission yesterday, and they estimate it's going to cost a cool fifty million.

(label) Of a person, knowing what to do and how to behave; considered popular by others.

(label) In fashion, part of or fitting the in crowd; originally hipster slang.

* 2008 , Lou Schuler, "Foreward", in'' Nate Green, ''Built for Show , page xii

The fact that I was middle-aged, bald, married, and raising girls instead of chasing them didn't really bother me. Muscles are cool at any age.

(label) Of an action, all right; acceptable; that does not present a problem.

(label) A dismissal of a comment perceived as boring or pointless.

(label) Of a person, not upset by circumstances that might ordinarily be upsetting.

* (Henry Fielding) (1707-1754)

He had lost a cool hundred.

* (Charles Dickens) (1812-1870)

leaving a cool four thousand to Mr. Matthew Pocket

Adjective

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Beautiful, of a pleasing appearance, with a pure and fresh quality.

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*{{quote-book, year=1917, year_published=2008

, edition=HTML, author=(Edgar Rice Burroughs), publisher=The Gutenberg Project , title= A Princess of Mars , passage="It was a purely scientific research party sent out by my father's father, the Jeddak of Helium, to rechart the air currents, and to take atmospheric density tests," replied the fair prisoner, in a low, well-modulated voice.}}

*{{quote-book, year=2010, author=(Stephan Grundy)

, title= Beowulf , genre=Fiction, publisher=iUniverse, isbn=9781440156977, page=33 , passage=And yet he was also, though many generations separated them, distant cousin to the shining eoten-main Geard, whom the god Frea Ing had seen from afar and wedded; and to Scatha, the fair daughter of the old thurse Theasa, who had claimed a husband from among the gods as weregild for her father's slaying: often, it was said, the ugliest eotens would sire the fairest maids.}}

Unblemished (figuratively or literally); clean and pure; innocent.

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*:a fair white linen cloth

Light in color, pale, particularly as regards skin tone but also referring to blond hair.

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*1677 , (Matthew Hale), The Primitive Origination of Mankind, Considered and Examined According to the Light of Nature , page 200

*:the northern people large and fair -complexioned

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*:This new-comer was a man who in any company would have seemed striking. In complexion fair , and with blue or gray eyes, he was tall as any Viking, as broad in the shoulder.

Just, equitable.

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*:“[…] it is not fair of you to bring against mankind double weapons ! Dangerous enough you are as woman alone, without bringing to your aid those gifts of mind suited to problems which men have been accustomed to arrogate to themselves.”

Adequate, reasonable, or decent.

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*, chapter=3

, title= Mr. Pratt's Patients , passage=My hopes wa'n't disappointed. I never saw clams thicker than they was along them inshore flats. I filled my dreener in no time, and then it come to me that 'twouldn't be a bad idee to get a lot more, take 'em with me to Wellmouth, and peddle 'em out. Clams was fairly scarce over that side of the bay and ought to fetch a fair price.}}

Favorable to a ship's course.

Not overcast; cloudless; clear; pleasant; propitious; said of the sky, weather, or wind, etc.

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*(Matthew Prior) (1664-1721)

*:You wish fair winds may waft him over.

Free from obstacles or hindrances; unobstructed; unencumbered; open; direct; said of a road, passage, etc.

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*Sir (Walter Raleigh) (ca.1554-1618)

*:The caliphs obtained a mighty empire, which was in a fair way to have enlarged.

(lb) Without sudden change of direction or curvature; smooth; flowing; said of the figure of a vessel, and of surfaces, water lines, and other lines.

(lb) Between the baselines.