chill

Definitions

• A moderate, but uncomfortable and penetrating coldness.
• A sudden penetrating sense of cold, especially one that causes a brief trembling nerve response through the body; the trembling response itself; often associated with illness: fevers and chills, or susceptibility to illness.
• An uncomfortable and numbing sense of fear, dread, anxiety, or alarm, often one that is sudden and usually accompanied by a trembling nerve response resembling the body's response to biting cold.
• An iron mould or portion of a mould, serving to cool rapidly, and so to harden, the surface of molten iron brought in contact with it.
• The hardened part of a casting, such as the tread of a carriage wheel.
• A lack of warmth and cordiality; unfriendliness.
• Calmness; equanimity.
• A sense of style; trendiness; savoir faire.