COOLLY
coolly, nervelessly, nonchalantly
(adverb) in a composed and unconcerned manner; “without more ado Barker borrowed a knife from his brigade Major and honed it on a carborundum stone as coolly as a butcher”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Adverb
coolly (comparative more coolly, superlative most coolly)
In a cool, unpanicked or collected manner.
(dated) With calm impudence.
Adjective
coolly (comparative more coolly, superlative most coolly)
(obsolete) coolish; somewhat cool in temperature
Keeping my sheep amongst the coolly shade of the green alders.
Source: Wiktionary
Cool"ly, a.
Definition: Coolish; cool. [Obs.] Spenser.
Cool"ly, adv.
Definition: In a cool manner; without heat or excessive cold; without
passion or ardor; calmly; deliberately; with indifference;
impudently.
COOL
Cool, a. [Compar. Cooler; superl. Coolest.] Etym: [AS. col; akin to
D. koel, G. kühl, OHG. chouli, Dan. kölig, Sw. kylig, also to AS.
calan to be cold, Icel. kala. See Cold, and cf. Chill.]
1. Moderately cold; between warm and cold; lacking in warmth;
producing or promoting coolness.
Fanned with cool winds. Milton.
2. Not ardent, warm, fond, or passionate; not hasty; deliberate;
exercising self-control; self-possessed; dispassionate; indifferent;
as, a cool lover; a cool debater.
For a patriot, too cool. Goldsmith.
3. Not retaining heat; light; as, a cool dress.
4. Manifesting coldness or dislike; chilling; apathetic; as, a cool
manner.
5. Quietly impudent; negligent of propriety in matters of minor
importance, either ignorantly or willfully; presuming and selfish;
audacious; as, cool behavior.
Its cool stare of familiarity was intolerable. Hawthorne.
6. Applied facetiously, in a vague sense, to a sum of money, commonly
as if to give emphasis to the largeness of the amount.
He had lost a cool hundred. Fielding.
Leaving a cool thousand to Mr.Matthew Pocket. Dickens.
Syn.
– Calm; dispassionate; self-possessed; composed; repulsive; frigid;
alienated; impudent.
Cool, n.
Definition: A moderate state of cold; coolness; -- said of the temperature
of the air between hot and cold; as, the cool of the day; the cool of
the morning or evening.
Cool, v. t. [imp. & p.p. Cooled; p.pr. & vb.n. Cooling.]
1. To make cool or cold; to reduce the temperature of; as, ice cools
water.
Send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and
cool my tongue. Luke xvi. 24.
2. To moderate the heat or excitement of; to allay, as passion of any
kind; to calm; to moderate.
We have reason to cool our raging motions, our carnal stings, our
unbitted lusts. Shak.
To cool the heels, to dance attendance; to wait, as for admission to
a patron's house. [Colloq.] Dryden.
Cool, v. i.
1. To become less hot; to lose heat.
I saw a smith stand with his hammer, thus, the whilst his iron did on
the anvil cool. Shak.
2. To lose the heat of excitement or passion; to become more
moderate.
I will not give myself liberty to think, lest I should cool.
Congreve.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition