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Webster's Dictionary (1865)

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Chill

Chill, a.

adjective

a. [A-S. cyle, cele, chill, cool, cold, from celan, calan, to chill, to be cold; D. kil, cold, Sw. kyla, coldness, to make cold. Cf. COOL.]

  1. Moderately cold; tending to cause shivering; cool. “Noisome winds, and blasting vapors chill.” Milton.
  2. Affected by cold. “My veins are chill.” Shak.
  3. Characterized by coolness of manner, feeling, &c.; lacking enthusiasm or warmth; formal; distant; as, a chill reception.
  4. Discouraged; depressed; dispirited.

Chĭll, n.

noun

[See supra.]

  1. A moderate degree of cold; a disagreeable sensation of coolness, accompanied with shivering. “[A] wintry chill.” W. Irving.
  2. A check to enthusiasm or warmth of feeling; discouragement; as, a chill comes over an assembly.

Chill, v. t.

verbtransitive

[imp. & p. p. CHILLED; p. pr. & vb. n. CHILLING.]

  1. To strike with a chill; to make chilly; to cause to shiver; to affect with cold. “When winter chilled the day.” Goldsmith.
  2. To check enthusiasm or warmth of feeling of; to depress; to discourage.

Every thought on God chills the gayety of his spirits. Rogers. 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.