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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
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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