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. (Zo÷l.) A myriapod of the order Chilognatha.
||Chi*log"na*tha (?), n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. &?; lip + gna`qos Jaw.] (Zo÷l.) 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.] (Zo÷l.) The tumid upper lip of certain mammals, as of a camel.
Chi"lo*pod (?), n. (Zo÷l.) A myriapod of the order Chilopoda.
||Chi*lop"o*da (?), n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. &?; lip + -poda.] (Zo÷l.) One of the orders of myriapods, including the centipeds. They have a single pair of elongated legs attached laterally to each segment; well developed jaws; and a pair of thoracic legs converted into poison fangs. They are insectivorous, very active, and some species grow to the length of a foot.
{ ||Chi*los"to*ma (?), Chi*lo*stom"a*ta (?), } n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. &?; + &?;, &?;, outh.] (Zo÷l.) An extensive suborder of marine Bryozoa, mostly with calcareous shells. They have a movable lip and a lid to close the aperture of the cells. [Also written Chillostomata.]
Chi`lo*stoma*tous (?), a. (Zo÷l.) Of or pertaining to the Chilostoma.
Chiltern Hundreds (?). [AS. Chiltern the Chiltern, high hills in Buckinghamshire, perh. Fr. ceald cold + ern, Šrn, place.] A tract of crown land in Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire, England, to which is attached the nominal office of steward. As members of Parliament cannot resign, when they wish to go out they accept this stewardship, which legally vacates their seats.
||Chi*mŠ"ra (?), n. [NL. See Chimera.] (Zo÷l.) A cartilaginous fish of several species, belonging to the order Holocephali. The teeth are few and large. The head is furnished with appendages, and the tail terminates in a point.
Chi*mŠ"roid (?), a. [ChimŠra + old.] (Zo÷l.) Related to, or like, the chimŠra.
Chi*man"go [Native name] (Zo÷l.) A south American carrion buzzard (Milvago chimango). See Caracara.
Chimb (chīm), n. [AS. cim, in cimstān base of a pillar; akin to D. kim, f. Sw. kim., G. kimme f.] The edge of a cask, etc; a chine. See Chine, n., 3. [Written also chime.]
Chimb, v. i. Chime. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Chime (chīm), n. [See Chimb.] See Chine, n., 3.
Chime (chīm), n. [OE. chimbe, prop., cymbal, OF. cymbe, cymble, in a dialectic form, chymble, F. cymbale, L. cymbalum, fr. Gr. ky`mbalon. See Cymbal.] 1. The harmonious sound of bells, or of musical instruments.
Instruments that made melodius chime.
Milton.
2. A set of bells musically tuned to each other; specif., in the pl., the music performed on such a set of bells by hand, or produced by mechanism to accompany the striking of the hours or their divisions.
We have heard the chimes at midnight.
Shak.
3. Pleasing correspondence of proportion, relation, or sound. "Chimes of verse." Cowley.
Chime, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Chimed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Chiming.] [See Chime, n.] 1. To sound in harmonious accord, as bells.
2. To be in harmony; to agree; to suit; to harmonize; to correspond; to fall in with.
Everything chimed in with such a humor.
W. irving.
3. To join in a conversation; to express assent; -- followed by in or in with. [Colloq.]