CHILL
\t͡ʃˈɪl], \tʃˈɪl], \tʃ_ˈɪ_l]\
Definitions of CHILL
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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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.
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A check to enthusiasm or warmth of feeling; discouragement; as, a chill comes over an assembly.
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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.
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The hardened part of a casting, as the tread of a car wheel.
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Moderately cold; tending to cause shivering; chilly; raw.
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Affected by cold.
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Characterized by coolness of manner, feeling, etc.; lacking enthusiasm or warmth; formal; distant; as, a chill reception.
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Discouraging; depressing; dispiriting.
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To strike with a chill; to make chilly; to cause to shiver; to affect with cold.
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To check enthusiasm or warmth of feeling of; to depress; to discourage.
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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.
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To become surface-hardened by sudden cooling while solidifying; as, some kinds of cast iron chill to a greater depth than others.
By Oddity Software
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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.
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A check to enthusiasm or warmth of feeling; discouragement; as, a chill comes over an assembly.
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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.
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The hardened part of a casting, as the tread of a car wheel.
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Moderately cold; tending to cause shivering; chilly; raw.
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Affected by cold.
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Characterized by coolness of manner, feeling, etc.; lacking enthusiasm or warmth; formal; distant; as, a chill reception.
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Discouraging; depressing; dispiriting.
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To strike with a chill; to make chilly; to cause to shiver; to affect with cold.
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To check enthusiasm or warmth of feeling of; to depress; to discourage.
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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.
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To become surface-hardened by sudden cooling while solidifying; as, some kinds of cast iron chill to a greater depth than others.
By Noah Webster.
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A sudden coldness accompanied by shaking; the absence of heat in a substance.
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Having the sensatior, of cold; depressing; discourteous; as, a chill greeting.
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To make cold; as, snow chills the air; deject; depress.
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To become or feel cold.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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Coldness: a cold that causes shivering: anything that damps or disheartens.
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Shivering with cold: slightly cold: opp. of cordial.
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To make chill or cold: to blast with cold: to discourage.
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CHILLNESS.
By Daniel Lyons
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Chillingly.
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Cold that causes shivering; an ague-fit; anything discouraging.
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Cold; formal.
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To make chill or cold; to discourage.
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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To reduce or come to a low temperature; make or become chilly; discourage.
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Somewhat cold; chilly.
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Coldness; a sensation of cold; a check to ardor, joy, etc.
By James Champlin Fernald
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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A paroxysm of shivering with a sensation of coldness accompanied by a rise of internal temperature and followed by a period of sweating.
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
