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ing, or shuddering, as in the cold fit which precedes a fever; in old medical writings, a chill of less severity than a rigor, and more marked than an algor.

heat, ardor, or animation; easily excited; firely; vehement; passionate; violent; eager. Achilles is impatient, hot, and revengeful. Dryden. There was mouthing in hot haste. Byron.

One who holds a shield over another; hence, a defender. [Obs.] Chillingworth.

ne group, of a grayish or greenish black color, often with a peculiar bronzelike luster (schiller) on the cleavage surface.

To chill or cool, as with ice; to freeze.

Covered with ice; chilled with ice; as, iced water.

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

r the state of being immersed; a sinking within a fluid; a dipping; as, the immersion of Achilles in the Styx.

The quality or state of being inexorable. Chillingworth.

stinacy. The inflexibility of mechanism. A. Baxter. That grave inflexibility of soul. Churchill. The purity and inflexibility of their faith. T. Warton.

To chill; to make cold; to cool. [Obs.] Boyle.

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.

ignity of a king; like a kingdom. [R.] "Twixt his mental and his active parts, Kingdom'd Achilles in commotion rages And batters down himself. Shak.

Same as Kinglet, 1. Churchill.

alarial fever (Med.), a fever produced by malaria, and characterized by the occurrence of chills, fever, and sweating in distinct paroxysms, At intervals of definite and often uniform duration, in which these symptoms are wholly absent (intermittent fever), or only partially so (remittent fever); fever and ague; chills…

An aromatic composite herb, the costmary; also, the South European Achillea Ageratum, a kind of yarrow.

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

A common composite herb (Achillea Millefolium) with white flowers and finely dissected leaves; yarrow. Water milfoil (Bot.), an aquatic herb with dissected leaves (Myriophyllum).

One of a fierce tribe or troop who accompained Achilles, their king, to the Trojan war.