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Chilliness   Listen
noun
Chilliness  n.  
1.
A state or sensation of being chilly; a disagreeable sensation of coldness.
2.
A moderate degree of coldness; disagreeable coldness or rawness; as, the chilliness of the air.
3.
Formality; lack of warmth.





Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48


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"Chilliness" Quotes from Famous Books



... the boys had dimly perceived below them as if it was a small map in a big geography, faded out of sight. At the same instant there was a sudden moisture and chilliness to the air. Then a dense ...
— Through the Air to the North Pole - or The Wonderful Cruise of the Electric Monarch • Roy Rockwood
... previous Sunday, twenty members out of his congregation of 600 came to the meeting to form a Church Total Abstinence Society, and ten of those made special and earnest protest against the formation of such a society! Can you imagine the chilliness of the spiritual air in that church as he laid down the Christian's duty of denying himself that he might save his fellow who had not the ...
— The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 2 of 2) • Ida Husted Harper
... collected when in flower and fruit, with spirit of wine; and the dose of this in a diluted form is from five to ten drops, of the third decimal strength, two or three times a day, with a spoonful of water. The condition which indicates its medicinal use, is that of a severe catarrh, with chilliness, a heavy head, sneezing, a dry mouth, and general aching, lassitude, with stupor, and heat of face. Its chemical constituents have not been ascertained. In the Isle of Skye it is used for causing salivation, as a vegetable mercury; and per contra ...
— Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure • William Thomas Fernie
... sympathy; and we can not but suspect a certain aloofness, which is akin to callousness. The cultivated citizens of Athens were supported by slave-labor; but their great dramatic poets cast little light on the life of the slaves or on the sad conditions of their servitude. Something of this narrow chilliness is to be detected also in the literature of the court of Louis XIV; Corneille and Racine prefer to ignore not only the peasant but also the burgher; and it is partly because Moliere's outlook on life is broader that the master of comedy appears to us ...
— Inquiries and Opinions • Brander Matthews
... left us as we left the Swiss mountains and dropped down into the fertile flats of Northern Italy, and at Milan all was raw chilliness and mud. ...
— A Holiday in the Happy Valley with Pen and Pencil • T. R. Swinburne


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