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[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
chill \chill\, v. t. imp.  p. p. chilled chi^ld; p. pr.
    vb. n. chilling.
   1. to strike with a chill; to make chilly; to cause to
      shiver; to affect with cold.
      1913 webster

            when winter chilled the day.          --goldsmith.
      1913 webster

   2. to check enthusiasm or warmth of feeling of; to depress;
      to discourage.
      1913 webster

            every thought on god chills the gayety of his
            spirits.                              --rogers.
      1913 webster

   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.
      1913 webster
see also:
chilled chilling 
[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
chill \chill\ chi^l, n. 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.
   1913 webster
   1. a moderate but disagreeable degree of cold; a disagreeable
      sensation of coolness, accompanied with shivering. "a
      wintry chill." --w. irving.
      1913 webster

   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.
      1913 webster

   3. a check to enthusiasm or warmth of feeling;
      discouragement; as, a chill comes over an assembly.
      1913 webster

   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. --raymond.
      1913 webster

   5. the hardened part of a casting, as the tread of a car
      wheel. --knight.
      1913 webster

   chill and fever, fever and ague.
      1913 webster
see also:
cold cool chill and fever 
[3] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
chill \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.
   1913 webster

[4] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
chill \chill\, a.
   1. moderately cold; tending to cause shivering; chilly; raw.
      1913 webster

            noisome winds, and blasting vapors chill. --milton.
      1913 webster

   2. affected by cold. "my veins are chill." --shak.
      1913 webster

   3. characterized by coolness of manner, feeling, etc.;
      lacking enthusiasm or warmth; formal; distant; as, a chill
      reception.
      1913 webster

   4. discouraging; depressing; dispiriting.
      1913 webster

[5] : WordNet (r) 2.0
chill
     adj : uncomfortably cool; "a chill wind"; "chilly weather" syn: chilly
     n 1: coldness due to a cold environment syn: iciness, gelidity
     2: an almost pleasurable sensation of fright; "a frisson of
        surprise shot through him" syn: frisson, shiver, quiver,
         shudder, thrill, tingle
     3: a sensation of cold that often marks the start of an
        infection and the development of a fever syn: shivering
     4: a sudden numbing dread syn: pall
     v 1: depress or discourage; "the news of the city's surrender
          chilled the soldiers"
     2: make cool or cooler; "chill the food" syn: cool, cool
        down ant: heat
     3: loose heat; "the air cooled considerably after the
        thunderstorm" syn: cool, cool down ant: heat
see also:
chilly iciness gelidity frisson shiver quiver 
shudder thrill tingle shivering pall 
cool cool down heat cool down 
[6] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
361 moby thesaurus words for "chill":
   laodiceanism, abscess, absolute zero, abstracted, ache, aching,
   affectless, ague, air-condition, air-cool, algidity, aloof,
   aloofness, anemia, anesthesia, anesthetized, ankylosis, anoxia,
   apnea, arctic, asphyxiation, asthma, ataxia, atrophy, autism,
   autistic, backache, be cold, benumb, benumbed, bite, bitterness,
   bleakness, bleeding, blennorhea, blunt, bracing, briskness,
   cachexia, cachexy, catatonia, catatonic, chatter, chilblains,
   chilliness, chilling, chills, chilly, cold, cold as charity,
   cold blood, cold creeps, cold heart, cold shivers, cold water,
   cold-blooded, coldhearted, coldheartedness, coldness, colic,
   constipation, convulsion, cool, coolish, coolness, coolth, coryza,
   coughing, creeps, crispness, cryogenics, cryology, cryopathy, cut,
   cyanosis, damp, dampen, damper, deadpan, decrease in temperature,
   deflect, deject, demoralize, depress, detachment, deter, determent,
   deterrent, diarrhea, didder, disaccordant, disaffect, disaffinity,
   discourage, discouragement, dishearten, disincline, disinterest,
   disinterested, disparage, dispassion, dispassionate,
   dispassionateness, dispirit, distance, distant, distract, distress,
   dither, dithers, divert, dizziness, dropsy, drugged, duck bumps,
   dull, dullness, dysentery, dyspepsia, dyspnea, edema, emaciation,
   emotional deadness, emotionally dead, emotionless, emotionlessness,
   enmity, fainting, fatigue, fervorlessness, fever, fibrillation,
   flu, flux, formal, freeze, freeze to death, freezing,
   freezing point, fresh, freshen, freshness, frigid, frigidity,
   frost, frostbite, frosted, frostiness, frosty, frozen, gelid,
   gelidity, glacial, go through, goose bumps, goose pimples,
   gooseflesh, grow cold, growth, halfheartedness, have a chill,
   have goose pimples, heartless, heartlessness, hemorrhage,
   high blood pressure, horripilate, horripilation, hostility,
   hydrops, hypertension, hypotension, ice, ice-cool, iciness,
   icterus, icy, immovability, immovable, impassibility, impassive,
   impassiveness, impassivity, inaccessibility, inclemency,
   incompatibility, incompatible, incompatibleness, indifference,
   indifferent, indifferentism, indifferentness, indigestion,
   indispose, inexcitability, inexcitable, inflammation, influenza,
   infrigidate, inhospitable, inhospitality, inimical, inimicality,
   insensitive, insipidity, insomnia, insusceptible, intense cold,
   invigorating, itching, jaundice, keenness, kibe, la grippe,
   labored breathing, lack of affect, lack of feeling, lack of touch,
   lose heat, low blood pressure, low temperature, lukewarmness,
   lumbago, marasmus, nasal discharge, nausea, necrosis, neuterness,
   neutrality, neutralness, nip, nippiness, nippy, nonemotional, numb,
   numbed, numbing, objective, objectivity, obtuse, obtuseness,
   offishness, out of touch, pain, paralysis, passionless,
   passionlessness, penetrate, penetrating, perfunctoriness,
   perish with cold, personal conflict, pierce, poker face, polar,
   pruritus, put off, quake, quench, quiver, rash, raw, rawness,
   refresh, refrigerate, remoteness, repel, reserved, rheum, rigor,
   sclerosis, seizure, self-absorbed, self-absorption, severity,
   shake, sharp air, sharpness, shiver, shivering, shivers, shock,
   shudder, skin eruption, sneezing, solitary, sore, soulless,
   soullessness, spasm, spiritless, spiritlessness, standoffish,
   standoffishness, stimulating, straight face, strain, strained,
   tabes, tachycardia, temperate, tense, tension, tepidness,
   the sniffles, tremble, tumor, turn aside, turn away, turn from,
   turn off, unaffectionate, unamiability, unamiable, unamicable,
   unapproachability, uncompanionable, uncordial, uncordiality,
   unemotional, unemotionalism, unexcitability, unfeeling,
   unfeelingness, unfriendliness, unfriendly, ungenial, ungeniality,
   unharmonious, unimpassioned, unimpressibility, unimpressionable,
   unimpressionableness, uninterested, unloving, unpassionate,
   unpassionateness, unresponding, unresponsive, unresponsiveness,
   unsociability, unsociable, unsusceptibility, unsusceptible,
   unsympathetic, unsympatheticness, untouchability, untouchable,
   upset stomach, vapidity, ventilate, vertigo, vomiting, wasting,
   wean from, wet blanket, wintry, withdrawal, withdrawn,
   withdrawnness, zeallessness




[7] : Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002)
chill
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[8] : The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03)
chill
     
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