[Note: this word also means very cold and in the following example, both meanings would be appropriate]. [If there were drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge,] how many drilling rigs, it’s fair to ask, would cause postpartum psychosis among caribou? … Would oil pipes and pumps in just 2,000 acres of the 9 million-acre refuge seriously harm animals and migrating birds? And if it does, is that the overriding consideration? Certainly no tourist jobs are at stake in that desolate, hyperborean plain. (Edwin A. Roberts, Jr., Ruminations On Oil And Its Origins, The Tampa Tribune, 11/18/2001.)
This word can also be a synonym for cold, freezing, frigid or icy.
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