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Coolness; coldness; a chill. Death is the chillness that precedes the dawn. Longfellow.

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

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.

A species of goatsucker (Antrostomus Carolinensis), of the southern United States; -- so called from its note.

See Sill., n. a foundation.

A spasmodic trembling of the upper eyelid.

To tilt up one end of so as to make almost vertical; as, to cockbill the yards as a sign of mourning. To cockbill the anchor, to suspend it from the cathead preparatory to letting it go. See Acockbill.

Of the nature of a codicil.

The coarse tow of flax and hemp. McElrath.

A term at omber, signifying that the game is won. Pope.

The fruit of a Brazilian tree (Attalea funifera of Martius.).

A shell or shell-like dish or mold in which viands are served.

A mountain ridge or chain.

A genus of plants related to the clover, having their flowers arranged in little heads or tufts resembling coronets.

A brisk dance, performed by eight persons; a quadrille.

A counter tally; correspondence (in sound). [Obs.] At the countretaille, in return. Chaucer.

A low rhamnaceous shrub (Karwinskia humboldtiana) of the southwestern United States and Mexico. Its berries are said to be poisonous to the coyote.

The geranium; -- so named from the long axis of the fruit, which resembles the beak of a crane. Dr. Prior.

A mill for grinding tin ore.

An indented or zigzaged line of intrenchment.