[chil] 
| 1. | coldness, esp. a moderate but uncomfortably penetrating coldness: the chill of evening. |
| 2. | a sensation of cold, usually with shivering: She felt a slight chill from the open window. |
| 3. | a feeling of sudden fear, anxiety, or alarm. |
| 4. | sudden coldness of the body, as during the cold stage of an ague: fevers and chills. |
| 5. | a depressing influence or sensation: His presence cast a chill over everyone. |
| 6. | lack of warmth of feeling; unfriendliness; coolness. |
| 7. | Foundry. an inserted object or a surface in a mold capable of absorbing large amounts of heat, used to harden the surface of a casting or to increase its rate of solidification at a specific point. |
| 8. | bloom 1 (def. 10). |
| 9. | moderately cold; tending to cause shivering; chilly: a chill wind. |
| 10. | shivering with or affected by cold; chilly. |
| 11. | depressing or discouraging: chill prospects. |
| 12. | Slang. cool (def. 14). |
| 13. | unduly formal; unfriendly; chilly: a chill reception. |
| 14. | to become cold: The earth chills when the sun sets. |
| 15. | to be seized with a chill; shiver with cold or fear. |
| 16. | Foundry. (of a casting) to become hard on the surface by contact with a chill or chills. |
| 17. | to affect with cold; make chilly: The rain has chilled me to the bone. |
| 18. | to make cool: Chill the wine before serving. |
| 19. | to depress; discourage; deter: The news chilled his hopes. |
| 20. | Foundry. to harden the surface of (a casting) by casting it in a mold having a chill or chills. |
| 21. | bloom 1 (def. 17). |
| 22. | Slang. to kill; murder. |
| 23. | chill out, Slang. to calm down; relax. |
[bloom] | 1. | the flower of a plant. |
| 2. | flowers collectively: the bloom of the cherry tree. |
| 3. | state of having the buds opened: The gardens are all in bloom. |
| 4. | a flourishing, healthy condition; the time or period of greatest beauty, artistry, etc.: the bloom of youth; the bloom of Romanticism. |
| 5. | a glow or flush on the cheek indicative of youth and health: a serious illness that destroyed her bloom. |
| 6. | the glossy, healthy appearance of the coat of an animal. |
| 7. | a moist, lustrous appearance indicating freshness in fish. |
| 8. | redness or a fresh appearance on the surface of meat. |
| 9. | Botany. a whitish powdery deposit or coating, as on the surface of certain fruits and leaves: the bloom of the grape. |
| 10. | any similar surface coating or appearance: the bloom of newly minted coins. |
| 11. | any of certain minerals occurring as powdery coatings on rocks or other minerals. |
| 12. | Also called chill. a clouded or dull area on a varnished or lacquered surface. |
| 13. | Also called algal bloom, water bloom. the sudden development of conspicuous masses of organisms, as algae, on the surface of a body of water. |
| 14. | Television. image spread produced by excessive exposure of highlights in a television image. |
| 15. | to produce or yield blossoms. |
| 16. | to flourish or thrive: a recurrent fad that blooms from time to time. |
| 17. | to be in or achieve a state of healthful beauty and vigor: a sickly child who suddenly bloomed; a small talent that somehow bloomed into major artistry. |
| 18. | to glow with warmth or with a warm color. |
| 19. | to cause to yield blossoms. |
| 20. | to make bloom or cause to flourish: a happiness that blooms the cheek. |
| 21. | to invest with luster or beauty: an industry that blooms one's talents. |
| 22. | to cause a cloudy area on (something shiny); dampen; chill: Their breath bloomed the frosty pane. |
| 23. | Optics. to coat (a lens) with an antireflection material. |
| 24. | take the bloom off, to remove the enjoyment or ultimate satisfaction from; dampen the enthusiasm over: The coach's illness took the bloom off the team's victory. |
| 25. | the bloom is off (the rose), the excitement, enjoyment, interest, etc., has ended or been dampened. |
| chill (chĭl) n.
v. tr.
[Middle English chile, from Old English cele; see gel- in Indo-European roots.] chill'ing·ly adv., chill'ness n. Our Living Language : In the 1980s and 1990s, chill gained currency as a slang term meaning "to relax, calm down." It is first recorded in 1979 and comes from Black English slang, which has frequently been a source of slang and informal words in Standard English, often through the medium of various African-American musical styles (in this case, rap and hip-hop). In fact, the word chill has had several incarnations as a slang term both inside and outside Black English. An older slang sense, recorded first in the 1870s, has been "to lose interest (in something), sour (on something)." Since the late 1920s it has also been used transitively to mean "to quash" and even "to kill." The recent use in the sense "to calm down" is another example of slang's innovativeness: English has always used words referring to heat and cold metaphorically to refer to emotions, and has used cool to refer to calmness since Old English times. Chill is a novel way of saying cool down, an old metaphor. The semantic evolution of chill continues as this is being written; the new sense of "to relax" has even more recently been extended to mean "to relax among friends, socialize." Chill thus offers a good example of how living languages are constantly changing in ways that are at once unpredictable and immediately comprehensible. |
chill (chĭl)
n.
A feeling of cold, with shivering and pallor, sometimes accompanied by an elevation of temperature in the interior of the body.