adj affected by cold.
2. chill ·adj discouraging; depressing; dispiriting.
3. chill ·adj moderately cold; tending to cause shivering; chilly; raw.
4. chill ·noun the hardened part of a casting, as the tread of a car wheel.
5. chill ·vt to strike with a chill; to make chilly; to cause to shiver; to affect with cold.
6. chill ·noun a moderate but disagreeable degree of cold; a disagreeable sensation of coolness, accompanied with shivering.
7. chill ·noun a check to enthusiasm or warmth of feeling; discouragement; as, a chill comes over an assembly.
8. chill ·vt to check enthusiasm or warmth of feeling of; to depress; to discourage.
9. chill ·adj characterized by coolness of manner, feeling, ·etc.; lacking enthusiasm or warmth; formal; distant; as, a chill reception.
10. chill ·vi to become surface-hardened by sudden cooling while solidifying; as, some kinds of cast iron chill to a greater depth than others.
11. chill ·noun 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.
12. chill ·vt 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.
13. chill ·noun 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.