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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



... being anything particularly interesting about him. But he who simulates—call him pretender, impostor, or quack—is nothing, if not taken notice of. The public gaze is his sunshine: obscurity gives him a deadly chill. His ambition is to appear out of the ordinary, being really quite within common lines: the dissembler is in some respect beyond the ordinary, but wishes not to show himself otherwise than as an ordinary ...
— Moral Philosophy • Joseph Rickaby, S. J.
... recognized the presence of Satan in the moral shed-room, and summarily ejected him. The rainfall had been sufficient to aggregate considerable water in the gullies about the sink-hole, and these, emptying into the cavity and sending a continuous stream over the boy, had served to chill him through and through, and he had a pretty fair chance of being drowned, or dying from cold and exhaustion. Ben pressed on to the still-house at the best speed he could make, and such of the moonshiners as were half sober came out with ...
— The Young Mountaineers - Short Stories • Charles Egbert Craddock
... not answer at once, but stood there shivering and shaking in his misery. He was all but overcome by the chill of his wet garments; and though he struggled to throw off the dead feeling of utter cold which struck him to the heart, he was quite unable to master it. He could hardly forgive himself that on such an occasion he should ...
— Castle Richmond • Anthony Trollope
... the lanterns held by the emissaries, the Automaton never looked more terrifying. Even Locke himself, who had encountered the monster so often, felt a cold chill as he watched ...
— The Master Mystery • Arthur B. Reeve and John W. Grey
... a slumbering subterranean fire in nature which never goes out, and which no cold can chill. It finally melts the great snow, and in January or July is only buried under a thicker or thinner covering. In the coldest day it flows somewhere, and the snow melts around every tree. This field of winter rye, ...
— Excursions • Henry D. Thoreau


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