1. (a.) Mitigating heat; cooling.
2. (n.) That which refrigerates or cools.
3. (n.) In distillation, a vessel filled with cold water, surrounding the worm, the vapor in which is thereby condensed.
4. (n.) The chamber, or tank, in which ice is formed, in an ice machine.
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