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Search phrase: scarce-cold

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CymbelineCym V.v.470Of yet this scarce-cold battle, at this instantOf yet this scarse-cold-Battaile, at this instant
Henry VI Part 11H6 IV.iii.50The conquest of our scarce-cold conqueror,The Conquest of our scarse-cold Conqueror,

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Glossary

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bleakcold, chill, icy
chillsensitive to cold, faint-hearted
coldchaste, modest, lacking sensual passion
coldhopeless, apathetic, miserable
coldempty, bare, lacking life
coldcalm, cool, deliberate
coldunruffled, impassive, unimpassioned
coldgloomy, depressed, dispirited
coldbad, unwelcome, disagreeable
coldindifferent, unenthusiastic, uninterested
coldineffective, unattended to, coldly received
coldcoldness, chill
coldlyin a cold form, as cold dishes
cold-movingcool, chilling, distant
coolchill with terror, become cold with fear
ice[metaphor for] cold contempt
key-coldcold as a metal key
miscarrybe scarce, fail, become unproductive
penealmost completely cold fear seizes my limbs
pinchingbitingly cold; or: narrowly restricting
rheumcatarrh, head-cold, coughing and spluttering
rheumaticwith symptoms of rheum [watery discharge], catarrhal, cold-like
salt[of a cold] bitter, intense, heavy
scarcescarcely, hardly, barely, only just
scarcewith difficulty, hardly possible
scarce-beardedwith a beard only just emerging, juvenile
scarce-coldonly just over, recently ended
shrinkingshivering, shuddering, wincing with cold
starveendure in fierce cold
starvedfrozen-stiff, near-perished with cold
stuffedfilled with a head-cold, clogged
thrillingpiercing, penetrating, bitterly cold

Thesaurus

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bitingly coldpinching
bitterly coldthrilling
coldbleak
cold as a metal keykey-cold
cold contemptice
cold dishes, ascoldly
cold with fear, becomecool
cold, bitinglypinching
cold, bitterlythrilling
cold, endure in fiercestarve
cold, headstuffed
cold, near-perished withstarved
cold, sensitive tochill
cold, wincing with shrinking
cold-likerheumatic
contempt, coldice
dishes, coldcoldly
endure in fierce coldstarve
fear, become cold withcool
head-coldrheum
head-cold, filled with astuffed
key, cold as a metalkey-cold
scarce, bemiscarry
sensitive to coldchill
wincing with coldshrinking

Themes and Topics

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a- as a particle
Elision
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