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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



... o'clock in the evening (at the very time when the quintet was meeting at Erkel's, and waiting in indignation and excitement for Pyotr Stepanovitch) Shatov was lying in the dark on his bed with a headache and a slight chill; he was tortured by uncertainty, he was angry, he kept making up his mind, and could not make it up finally, and felt, with a curse, that it would all lead to nothing. Gradually he sank into a brief doze ...
— The Possessed - or, The Devils • Fyodor Dostoyevsky

... buried in the cemetery. I had a second bout of fever at Hong Kong. Happily for us, we found kind relatives both at Manilla and Hong Kong, who nursed me, and who were very good to us. We found it very cold there after stewing for six years in Borneo, and the Bishop caught a chill which made him ill all the rest of the way home. Had we thought when we left Sarawak in '66 that we should never return there, it would have been a great trial to bid adieu to our old home, but we had no such intention. ...
— Sketches of Our Life at Sarawak • Harriette McDougall

... exclaimed Shelby, making ready for action. "Every naturalized mother's son in Little Poland shall vote for me before the train can even whistle. Now, you go home, Cora," he charged, "and drink something hot against this graveyard chill. Keep a stiff upper lip—that's my creed. Everything blows over in time. The scandal is so tall that it will topple of itself. Nobody will believe ...
— The Henchman • Mark Lee Luther

... mother of Tamatea arose with death in her eyes. All night long, and the next, Taiarapu rang with her cries. As when a babe in the wood turns with a chill of doubt And perceives nor home, nor friends, for the trees have closed her about, The mountain rings and her breast is torn with the voice of despair: So the lion-like woman idly wearied the air For awhile, and pierced ...
— Ballads • Robert Louis Stevenson

... in parables, parson. I'm paying in me," said he, grimly. And he laughed again, a laugh of sheer stark misery that raised a chill echo in my heart. His hand crept ...
— Slippy McGee, Sometimes Known as the Butterfly Man • Marie Conway Oemler


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