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Cold-short

Cold"-short`\, a. Brittle when cold; as, cold-short iron.

Cold-short

Cold"-short`\, a. [Prob. fr. Sw. kallsk["o]r; kall cold + sk["o]r brittle. --Oxf. E. D.] (Metal.) Brittle when cold (that is, below a red heat). -- Cold"-short`ness, n.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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