acold

American  

[uh-kohld] / əˈkoʊld /

adjective

Archaic.

1. being cold or chilled.

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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

It was only four days before curtain time, but the Metropolitan Opera's brave new production of Mozart's Cos� Fan Tutte was trembling and acold.

From Time Magazine Archive

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 MacClintock, Porter Lander

Ingram was away on one of his long absences, and she felt acold.

From Rest Harrow A Comedy of Resolution by Hewlett, Maurice Henry

My caldron would grow acold And never again would bubble up, If touched by her thread of gold.

From The Rescue of the Princess Winsome A Fairy Play for Old and Young by Bacon, Albion Fellows

Here we came when love was young, Now that love is old, Never let its day be lone, Nor its heart acold!

From Later Poems by Carman, Bliss