Reverse Dictionary: COLD (low temperature)

ADJECTIVES
1000 — OFCALEN affected with cold, chilled, frozen → obs.
1250 — FRORE intensely cold, frosty, frozen → obs. exc. Eng. dial.
1314 — ACOLD cold, cooled, chilled → arch.
1320 — ACALE — AKALE cold, frozen → obs.
1439 — MARBLIE — MARBLY cold, rigid, or calm like marble 
1460 — AFOUNDED numb or stiff with cold; said of a person → obs.
1565 — FUNDIED benumbed to cold; chilled; also, sensitive to cold → Sc.
1567 — FRORY frozen, frosty; extremely cold 
1606 — GELID extremely cold, cold as ice, icy, frosty 
1630 — FRIGIDIOUS intensely cold, frigid → obs.
1633 — CLAY-COLD as cold as clay;  usually used of a dead body 
1746 — MICKLED WITH COLD benumbed with cold → Eng. dial.
1785 — OURIE cold and cheerless, depressing, dejected → Sc.
1787 — LASHY very wet, cold, raw, damp → Eng. dial.
1790 — HASK piercingly cold, parching; said of the weather → Eng. dial.
1790 — RAWKY cold and raw, misty, foggy, damp → Sc. & Eng. dial.
1798 — MARMOREAL cold, smooth, white, etc. like marble → poetic usage
..19C — RAFTY cold, misty, wet, draughty → Eng. dial.
1801 — THIRLING piercingly cold → Sc.
1802 — OORIE cold, chilly, shivering → Sc.
1808 — YAULD — YAWL cold, frosty, sharp, keen → Sc.
1821 — BLEE cold and raw → Eng. dial.
1825 — ALLERISH rather cold; chilly → Sc. obs.
1826 — OORLICH cold, chilly → Sc.
1838 — VAALEN numb with cold; benumbed → Sc.
1840 — FROSTIFIED very cold → chiefly Eng. dial
1845 — SNUG of winter weather: very cold → Amer. dial.
1847 — COLD AS TUNKET very cold → Amer. dial.
1850 — COLD AS BLUE FLUGENS very cold → Amer. dial.
1856 — RATY cold, wet, stormy → Eng. dial.
1866 — CALWART — KALWART coldish, fresh and bracing; said of the weather → Sc.
1869 — OORIT cold, shivering, hunched up with cold or discomfort; tired-looking or ailing-looking, weak, puny, wearied, in poor spirits, miserable, dejected → Sc.
1874 — BLEARY cold, bleak, windy, showery → Eng. dial.
1874 — COLD AS WHIZZ very cold → Amer. dial.
1876 — ARCTIC extremely cold, freezing → colloq.
1876 — SCORCHING very cold → Amer. dial.
1879 — DERN cold, raw; said of the weather → Eng. dial.
1879 — GEE-WHIZZING COLD extremely cold → Amer. dial.
1881 — THIN cold, keen, piercing; said of the weather or wind → Ireland & Eng. dial.
1886 — CRIMMY cold, chilly → Amer. dial.
1886 — SNITHE cold, sharp → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1886 — SNIZY cold → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1887 — WHIZZING COLD extremely cold → Amer. dial.
1889 — COLD ENOUGH TO FREEZE THE NOSE OFF A BRASS MONKEY extremely cold → sl.
1892 — COLO cold → Chinese Pidgin (Bk.)
1893 — SHIVERY-BIVERY shaking with cold or fright → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1895 — PARKY cold, chilly, very cold → UK sl.
1896 — RAW-COLD exceedingly cold → Eng. dial.
1896 — RHEUMY running with cold → Eng. dial.
1898 — ALL IN A PIECE stiff with cold or rheumatism → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1898 — BLACK-STARVED pinched and blue with cold → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1899 — ATTERY cold and unpleasant; stormy, bitter → Sc.
1900 — DEAD-STARVED cold as death, so cold as to have lost the use of one’s limbs → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
..20C — TATERS (IN THE MOULD) cold → rhyming sl.
1902 — HARRISHING cold and stormy → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1904 — REAR cold, chilly, raw → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1905 — COLD AS A PADDOCK very cold → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1905 — HALF-NETHERED nearly perished with cold → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1905 — THIEVELESS cold, bleak → Sc. (Bk.)
1905 — URLED pinched or starved with the cold → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1906 — COLD AS BLIXUM extremely cold → Amer. dial.
1908 — COLD AS BLIXES very cold → Amer. dial.
1908 — EASTICK cold, showery → Sc.
1911 — BLAE cold, bleak → Sc. (Bk.)
1911 — COLD AS BLIXEN extremely cold → Amer. dial.
1912 — CRIMPY cold; said of the weather → criminals’ sl. (Bk.)
1913 — FREEZY cold → Amer. dial. (Bk.)
1920 — COLDER THAN A STEP-MOTHER’S BREATH extremely cold → US
1921 — AIRSOME cold; stormy → Amer. dial.
1921 — COLD ENOUGH TO FREEZE THE TAIL OFF A BRASS MONKEY extremely cold → sl.
1927 — COLDER THAN BLIXENS very cold → Amer. dial.
1935 — COLDER THAN WHALEY very cold → Amer. dial.
1937 — COLD ENOUGH TO FREEZE THE BALLS OFF A BRASS MONKEY extremely cold → sl.
1938 — COLD AS BILLY BEDAM very cold → Amer. dial.
1942 — C. H. AND D.  cold, hungry, and dry → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1943 — COLD AS BLAZES very cold → Amer. dial.
1943 — COLD ENOUGH TO FREEZE TWO DRY RAGS TOGETHER brutally cold → Amer. dial.
1943 — COLDER THAN BLAZES very cold → Amer. dial.
1944 — COLDER THAN A POLAR BEAR’S ASS very cold → Amer. sl.
1955 — COLD AS A NUN’S CUNT extremely cold → Aust. sl.
1955 — COLD AS BELIX very cold → Amer. dial.
1958 — COLDER THAN BILLY BE DAMNED very cold → Amer. dial.
1958 — COLDER THAN BILLY HELL very cold → Amer. dial.
1958 — COLDER THAN BILLY THUNDER very cold → Amer. dial.
1966 — COLD AS BLITZEN 1966 very cold → Amer. dial.
1966 — COLD ENOUGH TO FREEZE JORDAN OFF THE CROSS very cold → Amer. dial.
1969 — COLD AS BLUGEONS very cold → Amer. dial.
1971 — COLD AS A NUN’S NASTY extremely cold → Aust. sl.
1972 — COLDER THAN A NUN’S ASS very cold → Amer. sl.
1978 — COLDER THAN A WITCH’S TIT extremely cold → Aust. sl.
1984 — PINCHY cold, chilly → Amer. dial.
1989 — NIBBLING of the weather, chilly, slightly cold → US students’ sl.
1991 — BURLY very cold → US sl.
1992 — COLD ENOUGH TO FREEZE THE PLUMS FROM AN ESKIMO very cold (plum=testicle) 
1993 — COLDER THAN HELL very cold → sl. (Bk.)
1996 — BLOWIN’ FIT TO MAKE A RABBIT CRY very cold and windy → Amer. dial. (Bk.)
1996 — COLD AS A CLAM DIGGER’S  HANDS IN JANUARY very cold indeed → Amer. dial. (Bk.)
1996 — COLD AS A DOG AND THE WIND NORTHEAST extremely cold, and suggests a dopg huddling out in the middle of nowhere while a brutal northeast wind blows → Amer. dial. (Bk.)
1996 — COLD AS CHRISTMAS said of a very cold night → Amer. dial. (Bk.)
1996 — COLD ENOUGH TO FREEZE THE TAIL OFF AN IRON DOG brutally cold → Amer. dial. (Bk.)
1996 — JEEZLY COLD of the weather: very cold → Amer. dial. (Bk.)
1997 — BURRITO cold → US sl.
1997 — NIPPLY cold, chilly → US students’ sl.
1999 — COLD AND DARK AS A BUSHMAN’S GRAVE very cold and gloomy → Aust. sl. (Bk.)
2003 — COLD LIKE DOG NOSE very cold → Trinidad & Tobago
2006 — BALTIC cold; very cold → US sl. (Bk.)
2006 — BRICK very cold → African-American sl.
2006 — BURRNIPS cold; cold enough to make nipples harden → US sl. (Bk.)

NOUNS
1487 — FUNDYING a chilling or numbing with cold → Sc., obs.
1656 — GELIDITY extreme cold, frostiness, frigidity 
1727 — GELIDNESS coldness, frozenness 
1789 — ICE-BOLT a cold, piercing sensation; a sudden deadly chill 
1816 — GWENDERS a disagreeable tingling sensation in the extremities, caused by cold; numbness of the fingers or toes [in some parts of Cornwall it is pronounced ‘wonders’] → Eng. dial.
1828 — PERISHMENT a severe cold; a being very cold; extreme discomfort due to cold → Sc. & Eng. dial.
1866 — BAFF exposure to cold; the effects of exposure to cold → Sc.
1888 — TWINGE a ‘nip’ of cold
1899 — CREEPINGS shivery sensations from dread or cold → Amer. dial.
1913 — HOG KILLIN’ TIME a cold snap → Amer. dial. (Bk.)
1922 — QUEEL a coldness, a cooling down, a chill → Sc.
1931 — INDIAN WINTER a period of unseasonably cold weather → Amer. dial.
1991 — CHEIMAPHOBIA an abnormal fear or dislike of cold (Bk.)
1991 — CHEIMATOPHOBIA an abnormal fear or dislike of cold (Bk.)
1991 — PSYCHROPHOBIA an abnormal fear of the cold (Bk.)
1996 — BRASS MONKEY WEATHER extremely cold weather → Aust. sl. (Bk.)

PHRASES
1996 — TWICE AS COLD AS ZERO said on bitterly cold days → Amer. dial. (Bk.)

VERBS
..880 — ACOLD to become cold → obs.
1000 — ACOOL to wax cold, to cool → obs.
1230 — ACOLD to make cold, to cool → obs.
1300 — CHELDE to become cold → obs.
1300 — KELD to become cold → obs.
1420 — KEEL to become cool or cold 
1487 — FUNDY to become stiff or make numb with cold → chiefly Sc., obs.
1500 — AFOUND to become numb or stiff with cold  obs.
1684 — URLE to be pinched or starved with cold; to draw oneself together as when cold; to look sickly or to go back in health → Eng. dial. obs.
1742 — DAVER to be stiffened with cold; to be benumbed → Sc.
1806 — SCORCH to shrivel or nip with cold → Amer. dial.
1833 — FROSTIFY to make cold or frosty → obs.
1847 — NIRL — NURL to cringe with cold → Sc.
1891 — ARCTICIZE to accustom to arctic or very cold conditions 
1898 — BEVER — BIVER to shrivel up, to pinch; said of cold  Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1905 — HACKER to shake or tremble with cold, anger, fear, etc.; to chatter with cold → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1905 — HAGGER to chatter with cold; said of the teeth → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1905 — NEARP — NURP to pinch with cold → Eng. dial. (Bk.)