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chill(1) (iou)



chill adjective. Now literary. LME.
[Prob. from the noun.]
Cold to touch or feel; now usu. unpleasantly or injuriously cold; that chills or causes shivering. LME.
Arnold Bennett The atmosphere outside the stove was chill. W. Boyd He adored the chill green drink, clear and clinking with ice-cubes.
fig. That tends to repress warmth of feeling or enthusiasm; repressed in feeling, unemotional, austere. LME.
T. Gray Chill Penury repress'd their noble rage. T. Hardy A chill self-reproach.
Depressingly affected by cold; having a pervading sensation of cold; sensitive or liable to cold. L16.
M. Shelley They had a fire to warm them when chill.
chillness noun L16.