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Characterized by coldness, as of manner, influence, etc.; chilling; frigid; cold. Icy was the deportment with which Philip received these demonstrations of affection. Motley.

The quality or state of being inexorable. Chillingworth.

The act of chilling or causing to become cold; a chilling; coldness; congelation. [Obs.] Boyle.

interval. [R.] And a' shall laugh without intervallums. Shak. In one of these intervalla. Chillingworth.

Having the form or image of Mercury; -- applied to ancient guideposts. [Obs.] Chillingworth.

Thorough investigation. [Obs.] Chillingworth.

One who propounds, proposes, or offers for consideration. Chillingworth.

A sense of chilliness, with contraction of the skin; a convulsive shuddering or tremor, as in the chill preceeding a fever. Rigor caloris ( Etym: [L., rigor of heat] (Physiol.), a form of rigor mortis induced by heat, as when the muscle of a mammal is heated to about 50ºC. -- Rigor mortis ( Etym: [L. , rigor of death]…

vail one's self of; to make use of. [A Gallicism] I will serve myself of this concession. Chillingworth. -- To serve out, to distribute; as, to serve out rations. -- To serve the time or the hour, to regulate one's actions by the requirements of the time instead of by one's duty; to be a timeserver. [Obs.] They think…

for then a Turk would have as much reason to be a Turk as a Christian to be a Christian. Chillingworth.

Capable of being understood; intelligible. Chillingworth.