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Chill   /tʃɪl/   Listen
noun
Chill  n.  
1.
A moderate but disagreeable degree of cold; a disagreeable sensation of coolness, accompanied with shivering. "(A) wintry chill."
2.
(Med.) A sensation of cold with convulsive shaking of the body, pinched face, pale skin, and blue lips, caused by undue cooling of the body or by nervous excitement, or forming the precursor of some constitutional disturbance, as of a fever.
3.
A check to enthusiasm or warmth of feeling; discouragement; as, a chill comes over an assembly.
4.
An iron mold or portion of a mold, serving to cool rapidly, and so to harden, the surface of molten iron brought in contact with it.
5.
The hardened part of a casting, as the tread of a car wheel.
Chill and fever, fever and ague.


verb
Chill  v. t.  (past & past part. chilled; pres. part. chilling)  
1.
To strike with a chill; to make chilly; to cause to shiver; to affect with cold. "When winter chilled the day."
2.
To check enthusiasm or warmth of feeling of; to depress; to discourage. "Every thought on God chills the gayety of his spirits."
3.
(Metal.) To produce, by sudden cooling, a change of crystallization at or near the surface of, so as to increase the hardness; said of cast iron.


Chill  v. i.  (Metal.) To become surface-hardened by sudden cooling while solidifying; as, some kinds of cast iron chill to a greater depth than others.


adjective
Chill  adj.  
1.
Moderately cold; tending to cause shivering; chilly; raw. "Noisome winds, and blasting vapors chill."
2.
Affected by cold. "My veins are chill."
3.
Characterized by coolness of manner, feeling, etc.; lacking enthusiasm or warmth; formal; distant; as, a chill reception.
4.
Discouraging; depressing; dispiriting.





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"Chill" Quotes from Famous Books



... of leanness, Unkindness, and chill; Its whistle is ringing, An iciness bringing, Where the brown leaves are clinging In helplessness, still, And the snow-rush is delving With ...
— The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volumes I-VI. - The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century • Various
... me your chill and wild embrace, And pour your baptism on my face; Sound in mine ears the airy moan That sweeps in desperate monotone, Where on the unsheltered hill-top beat The ...
— The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January, 1852 • Various
... blows an icy hurricane, and the dust obscures the sky. These winds last all the summer, till February or March. I am told when they don't blow it is heavenly, though still cold in the mornings and evenings. No one must be out at, or after sunset, the chill is so sudden. Many of the people here declare that it is death to weak lungs, and send their poitrinaires to Madeira, or the south of France. They also swear the climate is enervating, but their looks, and ...
— Letters from the Cape • Lady Duff Gordon
... surely smite the Amalekites hip and thigh. And then, above the rain storm that beat loudly on the corrugated iron, I heard the sound of a chaunt. The Boers were singing their evening psalm, and the menacing notes—more full of indignant war than love and mercy—struck a chill into my heart, so that I thought after all that the war was unjust, that the Boers were better men than we, that Heaven was against us, that Ladysmith, Mafeking, and Kimberley would fall, that the Estcourt garrison ...
— London to Ladysmith via Pretoria • Winston Spencer Churchill
... climbed to his quarters. Ship air was flat, chemically pure but unappetizing stuff. Today it was a relief to breathe. Dane went on to the bather. At least there was no lack of water—with the local skinners filtered out. It was chill but relaxing on ...
— Voodoo Planet • Andrew North


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