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"Section C"


3. Formality; lack of warmth.


Chill"ing (?), a. Making
chilly or cold; depressing; discouraging; cold; distant; as, a
chilling breeze; a chilling manner.


-- Chill"ing"ly, adv.


Chill"ness, n. Coolness;
coldness; a chill.


Death is the chillness that precedes the
dawn.

Longfellow.


Chill"y (?), a. Moderately
cold; cold and raw or damp so as to cause shivering; causing or
feeling a disagreeable sensation of cold, or a
shivering.


Chi"log*nath (?), n.
(Zoöl.) A myriapod of the order
Chilognatha.


||Chi*log"na*tha (?), n. pl. [NL.,
fr. Gr. &?; lip + gna`qos Jaw.] (Zoöl.)
One of the two principal orders of myriapods. They have
numerous segments, each bearing two pairs of small, slender legs,
which are attached ventrally, near together.


Chi*lo"ma (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. &?;
lip, fr. &?; lip. See -oma.] (Zoöl.) The
tumid upper lip of certain mammals, as of a camel.


Chi"lo*pod (?), n.


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