Cooling \Cool"ing\, p.a. Adapted to cool and refresh; allaying heat. ``The cooling brook.'' --Goldsmith.

Cooling card, something that dashes hopes. [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.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Cool \Cool\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Cooled; p. pr. & vb. n. Cooling.]

1. To make cool or cold; to reduce the temperature of; as, ice cools water.

Send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue. --Luke xvi. 24.

2. To moderate the heat or excitement of; to allay, as passion of any kind; to calm; to moderate.

We have reason to cool our raging motions, our carnal stings, our unbitted lusts. --Shak.

To cool the heels, to dance attendance; to wait, as for admission to a patron's house. [Colloq.]

--Dryden.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)