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A thousand; the aggregate of a thousand things; especially, a period of a thousand years.
A plane figure of a thousand angles and sides.
A figure bounded by a thousand plane surfaces
Of or pertaining to Chili.
A native or citizen of Chili.
Alt. of Chiliarch
The commander or chief of a thousand men.
A body consisting of a thousand men.
The millennium.
The doctrine of the personal reign of Christ on earth during the millennium.
One who believes in the second coming of Christ to reign on earth a thousand years; a milllenarian.
Millenarian.
A moderate but disagreeable degree of cold; a disagreeable sensation of coolness, accompanied with shivering.
A sensation of cold with convulsive shaking of the body, pinched face, pale skin, and blue lips, caused by undue cooling of the body or by nervous excitement, or forming the precursor of some constitutional disturbance, as of a fever.
A check to enthusiasm or warmth of feeling; discouragement; as, a chill comes over an assembly.
An iron mold or portion of a mold, serving to cool rapidly, and so to harden, the surface of molten iron brought in contact with it.
The hardened part of a casting, as the tread of a car wheel.
Moderately cold; tending to cause shivering; chilly; raw.
Affected by cold.
Characterized by coolness of manner, feeling, etc.; lacking enthusiasm or warmth; formal; distant; as, a chill reception.