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 ]

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 ]

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 ]

2. (Paint.) Having that cloudiness or dimness of surface that is called “blooming.” [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A moderate degree of coldness; disagreeable coldness or rawness; as, the chilliness of the air. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Formality; lack of warmth. [ 1913 Webster ]

-- Chill"ing"ly, adv. [ 1913 Webster ]

Death is the chillness that precedes the dawn. Longfellow. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The fur of the chinchilla. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A heavy, long-napped, tufted woolen cloth.

On th' icy downhills of this slippery life. Du Bartas (Trans. ). [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Any mean situation or condition; a vile abode. [ 1913 Webster ]

He . . . lifteth up the beggar from the dunghill. 1. Sam. ii. 8. [ 1913 Webster ]

Dunghill fowl, a domestic fowl of common breed. [ 1913 Webster ]

Every mountain and hill shall be made low. Is. xl. 4. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The earth raised about the roots of a plant or cluster of plants. [ U. S. ] See Hill, v. t. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A single cluster or group of plants growing close together, and having the earth heaped up about them; as, a hill of corn or potatoes. [ U. S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Hill ant (Zool.), a common ant (Formica rufa), of Europe and America, which makes mounds or ant-hills over its nests. --
Hill myna (Zool.), one of several species of birds of India, of the genus Gracula, and allied to the starlings. They are easily taught to speak many words. [ Written also hill mynah. ] See Myna. --
Hill partridge (Zool.), a partridge of the genus Aborophila, of which numerous species in habit Southern Asia and the East Indies. --
Hill tit (Zool.), one of numerous species of small Asiatic singing birds of the family Leiotrichidæ. Many are beautifully colored. [ 1913 Webster ]

Showing them how to plant and hill it. Palfrey. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Lofty; as, hilly empire. [ Obs. ] Beau. & Fl. [ 1913 Webster ]

Having leapt over such mountains, lie down before a molehill. South. [ 1913 Webster ]

Schiller spar (Min.), an altered variety of enstatite, exhibiting, in certain positions, a bronzelike luster. [ 1913 Webster ]