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ommon level of the surrounding land; an eminence less than a mountain. Every mountain and hill shall be made low. Is. xl. 4.

The state of being hilly.

The act or process of heaping or drawing earth around plants.

A small hill. Shak.

The side or declivity of a hill.

The top of a hill.

Abounding with hills; uneven in surface; as, a hilly country. "Hilly steep." Dryden.

Resembling Achilles, the hero of the Iliad; invincible.

g, 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.

A mound thrown up by ants or by termites in forming their nests.

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

Hardened on the surface or edge by chilling; as, chilled iron; a chilled wheel.

See Chili.

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.

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.

Towards the bottom of a hill; as, water runs downhill.

ny mean situation or condition; a vile abode. He . . . lifteth up the beggar from the dunghill. 1. Sam. ii. 8. Dunghill fowl, a domestic fowl of common breed.