Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Cold; chilly.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Cold.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Cold; chilly.
- adjective (Med.) Asiatic cholera.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective medicine
cold ,chilly ; used of low body temperature especially in connection with certain diseases such as malaria and cholera.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective chilly
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The Dragonspawn flung out its algid arms, and purple light jagged from its fingertips.
GuildWars Edge of Destiny J. Robert King 2011
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The Dragonspawn flung out its algid arms, and purple light jagged from its fingertips.
GuildWars Edge of Destiny J. Robert King 2011
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The Dragonspawn flung out its algid arms, and purple light jagged from its fingertips.
GuildWars Edge of Destiny J. Robert King 2011
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The Dragonspawn flung out its algid arms, and purple light jagged from its fingertips.
GuildWars Edge of Destiny J. Robert King 2011
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Upon this variety of the Limnophysalis hyalina depends the vomiting of blue matters observed by Dr. John Sullivan, at Havana, in patients affected with pernicious intermittent fever (algid and comatose form).
Scientific American Supplement, No. 385, May 19, 1883 Various
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-- I could not doubt -- an actual aroma like peach-blossom was in the algid air about me!
The Purple Cloud 1906
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For this purpose it has even been employed in the algid period of incurable cholera morbus.
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That there is such an elevation has been decided by the experiments of De Haen, who found, that even in the algid states of fever, there was, in the internal parts, a manifest increase of temperature, in some cases to the extent of 2°, 3° and even 4°, and that the slightest febrile conditions are attended with an increase of heat, which is likewise in some instances the only observable phenomenon whatever.
An Epitome of Practical Surgery, for Field and Hospital. 1863
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Things intend a lowercase fantastic since the trainers hit to modify clothes to care with the algid and they conceive that the connatural fleshly laws no individual apply.
Planet Malaysia 2009
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Bread is ofttimes a "gateway" food item, leading the user to "harder" items such as butter, jelly, youngster butter, and even algid cuts.
xml's Blinklist.com 2008
knitandpurl commented on the word algid
"Perhaps this new Viennese science would explain my shirking of a higher education as a revenge against my hypereducated parents, whom by this stage in my life I presumably would have or should have detested, and the proponents of this science would be in some part correct, for detest them I did, but not for their negligence of me when a child or for their benign and distinctly algid treatment of me during my adolescence, but for reasons I shall not enter into here, and as for education and learning, why, I revered these, in spite of their being the trademarks, so to speak of my parents' whole being, so I would not likely have denied myself the education open to me merely to do these parents spiritual injury."
-Tintin in the New World by Frederic Tuten, p 151
July 10, 2008
jmjarmstrong commented on the word algid
JM and the Algid 'Armonisers make very cool sounds indeed.
May 3, 2010