Definition of Cauld

1. cold [n -S] - See also: cold

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cauld

caught raiding the cookie jar
caught sight of
caught some zs
caught up
caught up(p)
caught with one's fingers in the cookie jar
caught with one's hand in the cookie jar
caught with one's pants down
caught with the cookie jar
caughten
cauk
cauker
caukers
cauks
caul
cauld (current term)
caulder
cauldest
cauldron
cauldronful
cauldronfuls
cauldronlike
cauldrons
cauldronsful
caulds
caules
caulescent
caulicle
caulicles
caulicolous

Literary usage of Cauld

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Complete Word and Phrase Concordance to the Poems and Songs of Robert by J. B. Reid (1889)
"The cauld blue north was streaming forth Her lights, And wow ! he has an unco ... But now, the Cot is bare and cauld, . As on the banks\ О cauld blaws the ..."

2. An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language: To which is Prefixed, a by John Jamieson (1879)
"To CAST THE cauld of a thing, to get free from the bad consequences of any evil or misfortune, S. —"The vile brute bad maist war't me ; but I trou I ha'e ..."

3. Punch by Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman (1854)
"ILE'VE BIN AND "THERE'S cauld kail in Aberdeen," When blood runs quick in nil besides ; The dilettante Scot serene Shows his blank face, ..."

4. The Fairy Mythology: Illustrative of the Romance and Superstition of Various by Thomas Keightley (1905)
"The cauld Lad of Hilton will do no more good ; and he never again returned to the ... There was a room in the castle long called the cauld Lad's Boom, ..."

5. Jamieson's Dictionary of the Scottish Language: In which the Words are by John Jamieson, John Johnstone (1867)
"cauld COMFORT. 1. Any unpleasant communication, especially when something of ... Late peas ; opposed to Hot seed, early peas. Аут. Surv. Roxb. cauld ..."

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