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A quarrelsome woman; a scold. [Colloq.]

osure; as, to catch the spirit of an occasion; to catch the measles or smallpox; to catch cold; the house caught fire.

To rebuke; to reprove; to scold; to find fault with. Upbraided, chid, and rated at. Shak.

A female scold. [Obs.]

A blain, sore, or inflammatory swelling, produced by exposure of the feet or hands to cold, and attended by itching, pain, and sometimes ulceration.

A moderate but disagreeable degree of cold; a disagreeable sensation of coolness, accompanied with shivering. "[A] wintry chill." W. Irving.

A state or sensation of being chilly; a disagreeable sensation of coldness.

Making chilly or cold; depressing; discouraging; cold; distant; as, a chilling breeze; a chilling manner. -- Chill"ing"ly, adv.

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.

aping, or working in timber, stone, metal, etc.; -- usually driven by a mallet or hammer. Cold chisel. See under Cold, a.

To shiver or chatter with cold. [Scot.] Burns.

rough which the fluid rises from the overheated portion, and descends from the relatively colder, maintaining a circulation.

viscous or adhesive; soft and sticky; glutinous; damp and adhesive, as if covered with a cold perspiration.

To abuse with the tongue; to revile; to scold.

To rail at; to scold. [Obs.] In the aforesaid preamble, the king fairly claweth the great monasteries, wherein, saith he, religion, thanks be to God, is right well kept and observed; though he claweth them soon after in another acceptation. T. Fuller Claw me, claw thee, stand by me and I will stand by you; -- an old pr…

y, the common clay, containing some iron, and therefore turning red when burned. -- Clay cold, cold as clay or earth; lifeless; inanimate. -- Clay ironstone, an ore of iron consisting of the oxide or carbonate of iron mixed with clay or sand. -- Clay marl, a whitish, smooth, chalky clay. -- Clay mill, a mill for mi…

Having a sharp, distinct outline, like that of a cameo. She has . . . a cold and clear-cut face. Tennyson.

earthy and of little relative value, as the body of man in comparison with the soul. This cold clod of clay which we carry about with us. T. Burnet.

Stiff or benumbed, as with cold. [Obs.]