acold

Feeling cold.

Adjective

  1. Feeling cold.
    • c 1603–1606: Shakespeare, King Lear, IV-i Poor Tom's acold.
    • When, for all his feathers, he’s acold, the bird plunges from his perch head foremost into the snow. - 1897 January, Paul Van Dyke, “After Caribou on Snow-Shoes”, in Outing, volume 29, number 4, page 363:
    • To debate with Tao-an would be for me like drink to one who is athirst, like fire to one who is acold. - 1960, “The Story of Hui-yüan”, in Arthur Waley, transl., Ballads and Stories from Tun-huang: An Anthology, page...

Origin

From Middle English acoled (past participle of acolen (“to grow cold or cool”)), from Old English ācōlod (past participle of ācōlian (“to grow cold”)), equivalent to a- + cold.