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Chill
Webster's Dictionary
or (1):
(n.) 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.
(2):
(n.) A check to enthusiasm or warmth of feeling; discouragement; as, a chill comes over an assembly.
(3):
(n.) The hardened part of a casting, as the tread of a car wheel.
(4):
(v. t.) To strike with a chill; to make chilly; to cause to shiver; to affect with cold.
(5):
(v. t.) To check enthusiasm or warmth of feeling of; to depress; to discourage.
(6):
(a.) Discouraging; depressing; dispiriting.
(7):
(v. i.) To become surface-hardened by sudden cooling while solidifying; as, some kinds of cast iron chill to a greater depth than others.
(8):
(v. t.) 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.
(9):
(a.) Characterized by coolness of manner, feeling, etc.; lacking enthusiasm or warmth; formal; distant; as, a chill reception.
(10):
(a.) Affected by cold.
(11):
(n.) A moderate but disagreeable degree of cold; a disagreeable sensation of coolness, accompanied with shivering.
(12):
(n.) 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.
(13):
(a.) Moderately cold; tending to cause shivering; chilly; raw.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Chill'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/c/chill.html. 1828.
