chill

1. A sensation of cold. 2. A feeling of cold with shivering or shaking and pallor, accompanied by an elevation of temperature in the interior of the body; usually a symptom of an infectious disease due to the invasion of the blood by toxins. SYN: rigor (2). [A.S. cele, cold]

- smelter's chills SYN: smelter's fever.

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chill 'chil n

1) a sensation of cold accompanied by shivering

2) a disagreeable sensation of coldness

chill vi

1 a) to become cold

b) to shiver or quake with or as if with cold

2) to become affected with a chill vt to make cold or chilly

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(chil) a shivering or shaking; an attack of involuntary contractions of the voluntary muscles, accompanied by a sense of cold and pallor of the skin.