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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



... the bivouac fire, for the night was chill, and we were yet high up along the summit of the great range. We had been scouting through the mountains for ten days, steadily working southward, and, though far from our own station, our supplies were abundant, ...
— Starlight Ranch - and Other Stories of Army Life on the Frontier • Charles King
... "November chill blaws loud wi' angry sugh; The shortening winter day is near a close; The miry beasts retreating frae the pleugh; The black'ning trains o' craws to their repose: The toil-worn Cotter frae his labour goes, This night his weekly moil is at an ...
— Adventures In Contentment • David Grayson
... love to you?" repeated Ethel incredulously, though a chill came at her heart as she half realised ...
— Peg O' My Heart • J. Hartley Manners
... hour after that I awoke with a chill (as was natural), and was stretching out a hand to pull the window close, but suddenly sat down again and fell to ...
— The Splendid Spur • Arthur T. Quiller Couch
... in the black trees beside the road, like mighty Wodin in the northern forests, watching the son he had left behind and listening to the foolish words that fell from his lips. The baroness attributed the sudden chill of his manner, and the gloomy look on his face ...
— Greifenstein • F. Marion Crawford


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