▪ I. ˈover-ˈcold, n.
[over- 29.]
Excessive cold.
| c 1420 Pallad. on Husb. xi. 54 Ffor ouer cold do dowues donge at eue Aboute her roote. 1626 Bacon Sylva §411 The Earth doth..save it from over-heat and over-cold. |
▪ II. ˈover-ˈcold, a.
[OE. oferceald: see over- 28.]
Too cold, excessively cold (lit. and fig.).
| a 1000 Runic Poem xi, Is byð oferceald, unᵹemetum slidor. 1608 Bp. Hall Char. Vertues & V. ii. Enuious 169 Whom hee dares not openly to backbite, nor wound with a direct censure, he strikes smoothly with an ouer-cold praise. 1652–62 Heylin Cosmogr. Introd. (1674) 19/2 The two over-cold, or Frigid Zones. 1726 Leoni Alberti's Archit. I. 7/1 Sometimes too hot and sometimes over cold. 1823 Byron Juan vi. xv, Over-warm Or over-cold annihilates the charm. |