Definition of Overcold

1. a. Cold to excess.

Definition of Overcold

1. Adjective. Excessively cold. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Overcold

1. too cold [adj] - See also: cold

Lexicographical Neighbors of Overcold

overcloys
overcluttered
overcoach
overcoached
overcoaches
overcoaching
overcoat
overcoated
overcoating
overcoatless
overcoats
overcoddle
overcoddled
overcoddles
overcoddling
overcold (current term)
overcollateralize
overcollateralized
overcollateralizes
overcollateralizing
overcollection
overcollections
overcolor
overcolored
overcoloring
overcolors
overcolour
overcome
overcomer
overcomers

Literary usage of Overcold

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

1. A History of American Literature, 1607-1865 by William Peterfield Trent (1908)
"... stoves and overcold audiences put his good-humour to a severe test. As a professor he never seems to have put the good- humour of his classes, ..."

2. The Great Plains: The Romance of Western American Exploration, Warfare, and by Randall Parrish (1907)
""Sometimes at night, when the weather was clear and not overcold, the men would lie wide awake upon their backs for hours at a stretch, looking straight up ..."

3. Béranger: Two Hundred of His Lyrical Poems by Pierre Jean de Béranger (1850)
"If our incense we burn for a flirt, Who was wont not to be overcold, Soon perchance we may hear her assert, That she finds we are growing too old. ..."

4. The Works of the Right Reverend Joseph Hall by Joseph Hall, Philip Wynter (1863)
"Whom he dares not openly backbite, nor wound with a direct censure, he strikes smoothly, with an overcold praise: and when he sees that he must either ..."

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