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

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

Any one of several small German and Dutch coins, worth from about one and a half cents to about five cents.

The Spanish real, of the value of one eight of a dollar, or 12 York shilling. Same as Shilling, 3.

A respecter; a viewer with partiality. [Obs.] God is no accepter of persons. Chillingworth.

but somewhat less emphatically. In such expressions as "twice an hour," "once an age," a shilling an ounce (see 2d A, 2), it has a distributive force, and is equivalent to each, every.

ach by itself; by the single one; to each; as the share of each; as, these melons cost a shilling apiece. "Fined . . . a thousand pounds apiece." Hume.

That which is assumed; an assumption. [Obs.] The sun of all your assumpts is this. Chillingworth.

A shilling. [Slang, Eng.] Dickens.

A duty of two shillings on every tun of wine imported into England by merchant strangers; -- so called because paid to the king's butler for the king. Blackstone.

An English gold coin of the value of twenty or twenty-three shillings. It was first struck in the reign of Charles I. Told down the crowns and Caroluses. Macawlay.

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

mmon fund. They laid down the club. L'Estrange. We dined at a French house, but paid ten shillings for our part of the club. Pepys. Club law, government by violence; lynch law; anarchy. Addison. -Club moss (Bot.), an evergreen mosslike plant, much used in winter decoration. The best know species is Lycopodium clavatum,…

Able to exist with another thing; consistent. [R.] Chillingworth.

itome. [Obs.] Though not a catalogue of fundamentals, yet . . . a comprehension of them. Chillingworth.

l they who know me . . . will say they have reason in this matter to be my compurgators. Chillingworth.

Manifesting coldness or dislike; chilling; apathetic; as, a cool manner.

hence,a denomination of money; as, the English crown, a silver coin of the value of five shillings sterling, or a little more than $1.20; the Danish or Norwegian crown, a money of account, etc., worth nearly twenty-seven cents.

Chilling; penetratinn; sharp; as, a cutting wind.

pose them. It afterward became a permanent tax, raised by an assessment, at first of one shilling, afterward of two shillings, upon every hide of land throughout the realm. Wharton's Law Dict. Tomlins.