▪ I. chilling, vbl. n.
(ˈtʃɪlɪŋ)
[f. chill v. + -ing1.]
a. The action of the verb chill in various senses.
| 1393 Langl. P. Pl. C. ix. 335 For chillynge of hir Mawe. c 1440 Promp. Parv. 75 Chyllynge of tethe or oþer lyke, frigidor. 1664 Evelyn Kal. Hort. (1729) 206 The Water endangers the chilling and rotting of the Fibres. 1861 F. Nightingale Nursing ii. 13 Whenever a tendency to chilling is discovered, hot bottles..should be made use of. |
b. spec.; see chill v. 6.
| 1831 J. Holland Manuf. Metals I. 72 To case-harden railroad plates by casting them upon a piece of cold iron..[is] termed chilling. 1881 Metal World viii. 120 The property of chilling in iron is dependent to a large extent on the absence of silicon, and to the presence of carbon in what has been called the third form. |
c. The action or process of chilling meat. In quot. attrib.
| 1902 Westm. Gaz. 26 Nov. 10/3 The great River Plate exporters having adopted the ‘chilling’ process. |
▪ II. chilling, ppl. a.
(ˈtʃɪlɪŋ)
[f. as prec. + -ing2.]
1. That chills: in various senses of the verb.
| ? a 1400 Morte Arth. 2966 The chillande watire one his chekes rynnyde. c 1420 Pallad. on Husb. iv. 452 At Juill and Aust in landes chillingest [frigidissimis]. 1563 Sackville Myrr. Mag. Induct. 4 His frosty face With chilling cold had pearst the tender green. 1588 Shakes. Tit. A. ii. iii. 212 A chilling sweat ore-runs my trembling ioynts. 1726 Swift On Poetry, Our chilling Climate hardly bears A Sprig of Bays in fifty years. 1814 Scott Ld. of Isles v. xvi, Chilling news. 1876 Geo. Eliot Dan. Der. ii. xvii. 144 Chilling suspicious manners. 1878 Huxley Physiogr. 40. |
2. Comb., as chilling-cold, so cold as to chill.
| 1616 R. Carpenter Past Charge 14 Some of them were chilling cold in charitie. 1801 Southey Thalaba x. xii, To the touch They are chilling cold. |
Hence ˈchillingly adv.
| c 1784 in F. Burney (F. Hall). |
| 1804 Moore Poems I. 349 Think not the veil he so chillingly casts, Is the veil of a vestal severe. 1841 Blackw. Mag. L. 737 Evening's breeze blew chillingly. 1870 Pall Mall G. 25 Aug. 2 Next-door neighbours..are either on terms of the closest intimacy or chillingly distant. |