a. Resembling Achilles, the hero of the Iliad; invincible. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. a mythical Greek hero of the Iliad; a foremost Greek warrior at the seige of Troy. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ L. Achillis tendo. ] (Anat.) The strong tendon formed of the united tendons of the large muscles in the calf of the leg, an inserted into the bone of the heel; -- so called from the mythological account of Achilles being held by the heel when dipped in the River Styx. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ 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. ] [ 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 ]

a. 1. Moderately cold; tending to cause shivering; chilly; raw. [ 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 ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Chilled p. pr. & vb. n. Chilling. ] 1. To strike with a chill; to make chilly; to cause to shiver; to affect with cold. [ 1913 Webster ]

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 ]

v. i. (Metal.) To become surface-hardened by sudden cooling while solidifying; as, some kinds of cast iron chill to a greater depth than others. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Hardened on the surface or edge by chilling; as, chilled iron; a chilled wheel. [ 1913 Webster ]

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

n. See Chili. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A state or sensation of being chilly; a disagreeable sensation of coldness. [ 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 ]

a. Making chilly or cold; depressing; discouraging; cold; distant; as, a chilling breeze; a chilling manner.

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

n. Coolness; coldness; a chill. [ 1913 Webster ]

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

a. Moderately cold; cold and raw or damp so as to cause shivering; causing or feeling a disagreeable sensation of cold, or a shivering. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Sp. ] 1. (Zool.) A small rodent (Chinchilla lanigera), of the size of a large squirrel, remarkable for its fine fur, which is very soft and of a pearly gray color. It is a native of Peru and Chili. [ 1913 Webster ]

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

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

n. a natural family of small bushy-tailed South American burrowing rodents.
Syn. -- family Chinchillidae. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. a gregarious burrowing rodent (Lagostomus maximus) larger than the chinchillas.
Syn. -- viscacha, Lagostomus maximus. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

(Bot.) The lichen from which archil is obtained. See Archil. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ NL. ] (Bot.) Same as Rhachilla. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ NL., fr. Gr. "ra`chis the spine.] (Bot.) A branch of inflorescence; the zigzag axis on which the florets are arranged in the spikelets of grasses. [1913 Webster]

n. [ G., play of colors. ] (Min.) The peculiar bronzelike luster observed in certain minerals, as hypersthene, schiller spar, etc. It is due to the presence of minute inclusions in parallel position, and is sometimes of secondary origin. [ 1913 Webster ]

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

n. (Min.) The act or process of producing schiller in a mineral mass. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ G. See Shilling. ] Any one of several small German and Dutch coins, worth from about one and a half cents to about five cents. [ 1913 Webster ]