| Pronunciation: | | 'aljid
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| Matching Terms: | | algicide, algidity, algidness, algiers, algific, algin, alginate, alginic acid
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| | Definition: | | [adj] (medicine) chilly; "a person who is algid is marked by prostration and has cold clammy skin and low blood pressure" |
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| | Synonyms: | | cold |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Al"gid\, a. [L. algidus cold, fr. algere to be cold: cf.
F. algide.]
Cold; chilly. --Bailey.
{Algid cholera} (Med.), Asiatic cholera.
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| | Related Terms: | | aguey, aguish, arctic, below zero, biting, bitter, bitterly cold, bleak, blue with cold, boreal, brisk, brumal, chattering, chilly, cold, cold as charity, cold as death, cold as ice, cold as marble, cool, crisp, cutting, dithery, freezing, freezing cold, frigid, frozen, frozen to death, gelid, glacial, half-frozen, hibernal, hiemal, hyperborean, ice-cold, ice-encrusted, icelike, icy, inclement, keen, nipping, nippy, numbing, penetrating, piercing, pinching, raw, rigorous, severe, shaky, sharp, shivering, shivery, Siberian, sleety, slushy, snappy, stone-cold, subzero, supercooled, winterbound, winterlike, wintery, wintry, with chattering teeth |
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