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chill

ʧɪl
WordNet
Interesting fact
The temperature of milk when it leaves the body of a cow is 101 degrees Fahrenheit. The milk is then quickly chilled and stored at a temperature of 40 degrees Fahrenheit
  1. (v) chill
    loose heat "The air cooled considerably after the thunderstorm"
  2. (v) chill
    make cool or cooler "Chill the food"
  3. (v) chill
    depress or discourage "The news of the city's surrender chilled the soldiers"
  4. (n) chill
    coldness due to a cold environment
  5. (n) chill
    an almost pleasurable sensation of fright "a frisson of surprise shot through him"
  6. (n) chill
    a sudden numbing dread
  7. (n) chill
    a sensation of cold that often marks the start of an infection and the development of a fever
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
  1. Chill
    A check to enthusiasm or warmth of feeling; discouragement; as, a chill comes over an assembly.
  2. Chill
    A moderate but disagreeable degree of cold; a disagreeable sensation of coolness, accompanied with shivering. "A] wintry chill ."
  3. Chill
    (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.
  4. Chill
    Affected by cold. "My veins are chill ."
  5. Chill
    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.
  6. Chill
    Characterized by coolness of manner, feeling, etc.; lacking enthusiasm or warmth; formal; distant; as, a chill reception.
  7. Chill
    Discouraging; depressing; dispiriting.
  8. Chill
    Moderately cold; tending to cause shivering; chilly; raw. "Noisome winds, and blasting vapors chill ."
  9. Chill
    The hardened part of a casting, as the tread of a car wheel.
  10. Chill
    (Metal) To become surface-hardened by sudden cooling while solidifying; as, some kinds of cast iron chill to a greater depth than others.
  11. Chill
    To check enthusiasm or warmth of feeling of; to depress; to discourage. "Every thought on God chills the gayety of his spirits."
  12. Chill
    (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.
  13. Chill
    To strike with a chill; to make chilly; to cause to shiver; to affect with cold. "When winter chilled the day."
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  1. (n) chill
    A sudden or intense sensation of cold; especially, such a sensation accompanied with shivering or shaking, as a result of exposure to the cold or as the precursor or accompaniment of certain fevers; a cold fit; rigor.
  2. (n) chill
    A degree of cold; that condition of the atmosphere or of any object which produces the sensation of cold; coldness such as that caused by the proximity of ice; chilliness: as, there is a chill in the air.
  3. (n) chill
    Figuratively, a feeling as of coldness produced by anything that discourages, annoys, or offends; a depressing influence; a check to warmth of feeling, as to sympathy or enthusiasm.
  4. (n) chill
    A metal mold in which certain kinds of iron-castings, as car-wheels, are made. The surfaces in contact with the mold are hardened by sudden chilling.
  5. (n) chill
    In painting, dullness or dimness in a picture.
  6. chill
    Cold; tending to cause shivering: as, the chill air of night. See chilly
  7. chill
    Experiencing cold; shivering with cold.
  8. chill
    Figuratively— Depressing; dispiriting; discouraging.
  9. chill
    Distant; formal; not warm, hearty, or affectionate: as, a chill reception. See chilly, 4.
  10. chill
    Insensible in death.
  11. chill
    To be cold; shiver with cold.
  12. chill
    To become cold rapidly or suddenly.
  13. chill
    To affect with cold; make chilly; strike or blast with severe cold.
  14. chill
    Figuratively, to check in enthusiasm or warmth of feeling; discourage; dispirit; depress.
  15. chill
    In metallurgy, to reduce suddenly in temperature, as a mass of molten iron, so as to harden it by causing a change of crystallization at or near the surface. See casting.
  16. chill
    To remove the chill from, as liquor, by warming it.
  17. (n) chill
    A lamp peculiar to Cornball and the extreme west of England, consisting of an open saucer bent up on four sides so as to leave at the corners depressed spouts or gutters for holding wicks. Such lamps are made of earthenware or of metal, and are often fitted with a hanging support.
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary
  1. (n) Chill
    chil coldness: a cold that causes shivering: anything that damps or disheartens
  2. (adj) Chill
    shivering with cold: slightly cold: opposite of cordial
  3. (v.i) Chill
    to grow cold
  4. (v.t) Chill
    to make chill or cold: to blast with cold: to discourage
Quotations
It is not fitting, when one is in God's service, to have a gloomy face or a chilling look.
St. Francis of Assisi
We grow with years more fragile in body, but morally stutter, and can throw off the chill of a bad conscience almost at once.
Logan Pearsall Smith
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A cynic can chill and dishearten with a single word.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
William E. Gladstone
Men are apt to mistake the strength of their feeling for the strength of their argument. The heated mind resents the chill touch and relentless scrutiny of logic.
William E. Gladstone
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
How little praise warms out of a man the good that is in him, as the sneer of contempt which he feels is unjust chill the ardor to excel.
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
William Cowper
It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme rudely appealed to on each trifling theme.
William Cowper
Etymology

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary AS. cele, cyle, from the same root as celan, calan, to be cold; akin to D. kil, cold, coldness, Sw. kyla, to chill, and E. cool,. See Cold, and cf. Cool

Usage in the news

The group met with the president in the Oval Office before huddling together in the chill outside to watch his helicopter lift off. espn.go.com

Michelle Obama's Hairstylist Says She 'Chills. nymag.com

The latest Harry Potter is thrilling and chilling. nymag.com

Nuclear-power documentary provides chilling postscript to the Cold War. alibi.com

I go here if I feel like a chill night out. kcmag.com

Leaves falling, chill in air, what to have for dessert. kink.fm

No discussion of the New Zealand jangle-pop scene from the '80s and early '90s — a talk likely dominated by such Flying Nun Records institutions as the Clean and the Chills — would be complete without high praise for the Bats. sfweekly.com

With Chilling Precision, Terrorists Deliver Death As America Watches Helplessly . courant.com

A brand-new wave of Nordic cool, midnight sunsets, and chilling Soviet history. nymag.com

A chill on civil society. csmonitor.com

Editorial Assistance by Alexandra Chill and Harley Landsberg Suit jacket courtesy of Rothman's in Scarsdale. estchestermagazine.com

This chilling novel starts out as a witty look at contemporary manners in the style of Yasmina Reza's God of Carnage before turning into a take-no-prisoners psychological thriller. publishersweekly.com

Oriental egg vermicelli, cooked and chilled 1/4 tsp. restaurant-hospitality.com

Talk about needing a chill pill. blog.al.com

A chilling confession at a Cameron county courtroom as Daniel Flores Lopez told the court how he killed Sonia Perez on March 31st. kveo.com

Usage in scientific papers

In fact, this is the case of realistic Big Bang-Big Chill cosmological models: energy is concentrated towards the past and diluted towards the future , and this is another manifestation of the time-asymmetry of the universe.
The cosmological origin of time-asymmetry

This is a relevant observation when we consider that supernovae are the markers used to measure the longest distances corresponding to ob jects near the limit of the visible universe . 14At least in a expanding universe (Big Bang-Big Chill) case, which seems to be the case of our universe.
The cosmological origin of time-asymmetry

This gives the story a chilling air of mysticism.
Trigonometry of The Gold-Bug

This suggests a dramatic – and chilling – culture gap between the perceptions of a physicist and a biologist about how to teach physics for service students.
The role of context and culture in teaching physics: The implication of disciplinary differences

Under these conditions wind chill is a severe problem, but the dome provides a sheltered work space where we can repair and maintain the CBI.
The Cosmic Background Imager

Usage in literature

Agnes felt a little chill as she shut the door and walked back into the quiet house. "Big Game" by Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey

A chill ran through her. "The Easiest Way" by Eugene Walter and Arthur Hornblow

He had not said so much in return, but there was no sense of chill in his reserve. "A Houseful of Girls" by Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey

She gave a startled glance about the room, covering it with her arms; her form shivering as though in a chill. "The Black Cross" by Olive M. Briggs

He felt for the moment a chill in his bones, and he imagined what must be the dread of a traitor on the eve of detection. "Before the Dawn" by Joseph Alexander Altsheler

The child may have a chill or be seized with sudden vomiting or diarrhea. "The Eugenic Marriage, Volume IV. (of IV.)" by Grant Hague

Did you not feel chilled to death when he sat by you? "The Phantom Ship" by Frederick Marryat

There was a chill stagnant smell in the air. "Prisoners of Hope" by Mary Johnston

It is a well-known peculiarity of many fevers and infections to begin with a chill. "Preventable Diseases" by Woods Hutchinson

The realization of her was always a chilling disappointment, but the dream of her was a great hope. "The Wind Bloweth" by Brian Oswald Donn-Byrne

Usage in poetry
Are they quite willing,
Do they ask to pose,
Naked and simple, chilling
The very wind's nose?
Oh! chill was her tear,
As she thought of the night
She had wept in pure joy
At her rose's delight;
The dawn is lonely for the sun,
And chill and drear;
The one lone star is pale and wan
As one in fear.
To-day the world's heart feels anew
The vernal thrill,
And thine beneath the rueful yew
Is wintry chill.
It were my soul's desire
To shun the chills of Hell;
Yet more my soul's desire
Within His house to dwell.
Oh! that still and stately form--
Never more will it be warm;
Chilled beneath that iron storm,
--Slain in battle!