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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Chill \Chill\, adjective
1. Moderately cold; tending to cause shivering; chilly; raw.
Noisome winds, and blasting vapors chill. --Milton.
2. Affected by cold. ''My veins are chill.'' --Shak.
3. Characterized by coolness of manner, feeling, etc.; lacking enthusiasm or warmth; formal; distant; as, a chill reception.
4. Discouraging; depressing; dispiriting.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Chill \Chill\ (ch[i^]l), noun [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}.]
1. A moderate but disagreeable degree of cold; a disagreeable sensation of coolness, accompanied with shivering. ''[A] wintry chill.'' --W. Irving.
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.
3. A check to enthusiasm or warmth of feeling; discouragement; as, a chill comes over an assembly.
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.
5. The hardened part of a casting, as the tread of a car wheel. --Knight.
{Chill and fever}, fever and ague.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Chill \Chill\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Chilled} (ch[i^]ld); 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.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Chill \Chill\, verb (used without an object) (Metal.) To become surface-hardened by sudden cooling while solidifying; as, some kinds of cast iron chill to a greater depth than others.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
chill
adjective: uncomfortably cool; "a chill wind"; "chilly weather" [syn: {chilly}]
noun
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}]
verb
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}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
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
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:
CHILL {CCITT HIgh-Level Language}
From Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002) [vera]:
CHILL CCITT HIgh Level programming Language (CCITT)
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