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Chill: Definition and part of speech

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Chill

  1. a. Discouraging; depressing; dispiriting.
  2. n. A moderate but disagreeable degree of cold; a disagreeable sensation of coolness, accompanied with shivering.
  3. n. 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.
  4. n. A check to enthusiasm or warmth of feeling; discouragement; as, a chill comes over an assembly.
  5. n. 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.
  6. n. The hardened part of a casting, as the tread of a car wheel.
  7. a. Moderately cold; tending to cause shivering; chilly; raw.
  8. a. Affected by cold.
  9. a. Characterized by coolness of manner, feeling, etc.; lacking enthusiasm or warmth; formal; distant; as, a chill reception.
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The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Chilled: Definition and part of speech

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Chilled

  1. imp. & p. p. of Chill
  2. a. Hardened on the surface or edge by chilling; as, chilled iron; a chilled wheel.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Childlike: Definition and part of speech

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Childlike

  1. a. Resembling a child, or that which belongs to children; becoming a child; meek; submissive; dutiful.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Childly: Definition and part of speech

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Childly

  1. adv. Like a child.
  2. a. Having the character of a child; belonging, or appropriate, to a child.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Chilliness: Definition and part of speech

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Chilliness

  1. n. Formality; lack of warmth.
  2. n. A state or sensation of being chilly; a disagreeable sensation of coldness.
  3. n. A moderate degree of coldness; disagreeable coldness or rawness; as, the chilliness of the air.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.