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Having cold blood; -- said of fish or animals whose blood is but little warmer than the water or air about them.
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Definitions
- a. Having cold blood; -- said of fish or animals whose blood is but little warmer than the water or air about them.
- a. Deficient in sensibility or feeling; hard-hearted.
- a. Not thoroughbred; -- said of animals, as horses, which are derived from the common stock of a country.
- adj. without compunction or human feeling
- adj. having cold blood (in animals whose body temperature is not internally regulated)
- 1. Having cold blood; -- said of fish or animals whose blood is but little warmer than the water or air about them. 2. Deficient in sensibility or feeling; hard-hearted. 3. Not thoroughbred; -- said of animals, as horses, which are derived from the common stock of a country.
- j:100 a. having cold blood (in animals whose body temperature is not internally regulated)