A.cold, χάλαζα, νιφάδες, χιών, Il.15.171, 19.358, 22.152; ψ. χαλκός (as we say 'cold steel') 5.75: freq. of water, “ψ. ὕδωρ” Od.9.392, Th.2.49; ψυχρόν (without ὕδωρ) Thgn.263; “λοῦνται ψυχρῷ” Hdt.2.37; “ἀναγαργαρίζεσθαι ψυχρῷ” IG42(1).126.30 (Epid., ii A. D.) (but τὸ ψυχρὸν also = ψῦχος, cold, Hdt.1.142); “ψ. ὥστε λούσασθαι” X.Mem.3.13.3: of the air, “αὔρη ψ.” Od.5.469; “αἰθήρ” Pi.O.13.88 (s. v. l.); “νύκτες” Th.7.87; “κυνὸς ψυχρὰ δύσις” S.Fr.432.11; ψ. βίος life in the cold, Ar.Pl.263: esp. of dead things, νέκυς (opp. θερμὸν αἷμα) S.OC622; of cold meats, Alex.173.4, etc.; of a snake, Theoc.15.58: Comp. “-ότερος” Hdt.2.22, Pl.Phlb.24b: Sup. “-ότατος” D.S.1.41.
II. metaph.,
1. ineffectual, vain, “ἐπικουρίη ψ.” Hdt.6.108; “ἐπαρθεὶς ψυχρῇ νίκῃ” Id.9.49; “ψ. παραγκάλισμα” S.Ant.650; θερμὴν ἐπὶ ψυχροῖσι καρδίαν ἔχεις a hot spirit in a cold business, ib.88.
3. of persons, cold-hearted, heartless, indifferent, X.Cyr.8.4.22, 23; “ψ. καὶ μελαγχολικοί” Arist.MM 1203b1; “ἐκ σιδάρου κεχάλκευται μέλαιναν καρδίαν ψυχρᾷ φλογί” Pi.Fr. 123.5; “οὔτε ψ. εἶ οὔτε ζεστός” Apoc.3.15.
4. of flat, lifeless, insipid productions, τὸν Παλαμήδην (the play so named) “ψυχρὸν ὄντ᾽ αἰσχύνεται” Ar.Th.848; “σκῶμμα . . σφόδρα ψ.” Eup.244; ψ. καὶ ἀηδὴς [Μοῦσα] Pl.Lg.802d; “ἕωλα καὶ ψ.” D.21.112; “πρᾶγμα . . φρέατος . . ψυχρότερον Ἀραρότος” Alex.179, cf. Arist.Rh.1405b34, Demetr.Eloc.114, etc.: hence jokes in Ar.Ach.138-140, Machoap.Ath.13.580a; also of authors themselves, “γίνεται ψυχρός” D.H.Isoc.3. Adv., “ὁ δ᾽ αὖ Θέογνις ψυχρὸς ὢν ψυχρῶς ποιεῖ” Ar.Th.170; σκώψαντι ψ. ἐπιγελάσαι to laugh at a feeble joke, Thphr.Char.2.4; “τοὺς γοῦν ψυχροὺς ψ. λέγουσι διαλέγεσθαι” Pl.Euthd.284e.
5. silly, “γραϊδίοις ψυχροῖς ὁμιλοῦντες” Jul.Ep.89b. [Written “ψυχθρός” IG12(5).1104 (Syros, ii A. D.); cf. conversely μάκρα for μάκτρα （ψυχρός orig. 'cooled by blowing' from ψύχω 'blow').]
