acold
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of acold
before 900; Middle English acolde, Old English ācolod, past participle of ācōlian to grow cold. See a- 3, cool, -ed 2
Example Sentences
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Then sprang ye forth and went your way, and I abode there alone, sitting an whole day, sore and hungry and acold.
From Song and Legend from the Middle Ages by Porter Lander MacClintock
She might rightly say with Shakspeare, "Poor Tom's acold."
From Without Dogma by Henryk Sienkiewicz
Ingram was away on one of his long absences, and she felt acold.
From Rest Harrow A Comedy of Resolution by Maurice Henry Hewlett
Is the fire of his old loving-kindness gone out, that his pyres are acold?
From Songs Before Sunrise by Algernon Charles Swinburne
How kind is the clasping right-hand, that hath smitten the battle acold!
From The Story of Sigurd the Volsung and the Fall of the Niblungs by William Morris
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