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n. 1. a mythical Greek hero of the Iliad; a foremost Greek warrior at the seige of Troy. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ L. Achillis tendo. ] (Anat.) The strong tendon formed of the united tendons of the large muscles in the calf of the leg, an inserted into the bone of the heel; -- so called from the mythological account of Achilles being held by the heel when dipped in the River Styx. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) A mound thrown up by ants or by termites in forming their nests. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ AS. cele, cyle, from the same root as celan, calan, to be cold; akin to D. kil cold, coldness, Sw. kyla to chill, and E. cool. See Cold, and cf. Cool. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. A moderate but disagreeable degree of cold; a disagreeable sensation of coolness, accompanied with shivering. “[ A ] wintry chill.” W. Irving. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Med.) 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A check to enthusiasm or warmth of feeling; discouragement; as, a chill comes over an assembly. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. 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. Raymond. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. The hardened part of a casting, as the tread of a car wheel. Knight. [ 1913 Webster ]

Chill and fever, fever and ague. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Moderately cold; tending to cause shivering; chilly; raw. [ 1913 Webster ]

Noisome winds, and blasting vapors chill. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Affected by cold. “My veins are chill.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Characterized by coolness of manner, feeling, etc.; lacking enthusiasm or warmth; formal; distant; as, a chill reception. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Discouraging; depressing; dispiriting. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Chilled p. pr. & vb. n. Chilling. ] 1. To strike with a chill; to make chilly; to cause to shiver; to affect with cold. [ 1913 Webster ]

When winter chilled the day. Goldsmith. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To check enthusiasm or warmth of feeling of; to depress; to discourage. [ 1913 Webster ]

Every thought on God chills the gayety of his spirits. Rogers. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Metal.) To produce, by sudden cooling, a change of crystallization at or near the surface of, so as to increase the hardness; said of cast iron. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. (Metal.) To become surface-hardened by sudden cooling while solidifying; as, some kinds of cast iron chill to a greater depth than others. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Hardened on the surface or edge by chilling; as, chilled iron; a chilled wheel. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Paint.) Having that cloudiness or dimness of surface that is called “blooming.” [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Chili. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A state or sensation of being chilly; a disagreeable sensation of coldness. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A moderate degree of coldness; disagreeable coldness or rawness; as, the chilliness of the air. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Formality; lack of warmth. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Making chilly or cold; depressing; discouraging; cold; distant; as, a chilling breeze; a chilling manner.

-- Chill"ing"ly, adv. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Coolness; coldness; a chill. [ 1913 Webster ]

Death is the chillness that precedes the dawn. Longfellow. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Moderately cold; cold and raw or damp so as to cause shivering; causing or feeling a disagreeable sensation of cold, or a shivering. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Sp. ] 1. (Zool.) A small rodent (Chinchilla lanigera), of the size of a large squirrel, remarkable for its fine fur, which is very soft and of a pearly gray color. It is a native of Peru and Chili. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The fur of the chinchilla. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A heavy, long-napped, tufted woolen cloth.

n. a natural family of small bushy-tailed South American burrowing rodents.
Syn. -- family Chinchillidae. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. a gregarious burrowing rodent (Lagostomus maximus) larger than the chinchillas.
Syn. -- viscacha, Lagostomus maximus. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adv. Towards the bottom of a hill; as, water runs downhill. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Declivous; descending; sloping. “A downhill greensward.” Congrewe. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Declivity; descent; slope. [ 1913 Webster ]

On th' icy downhills of this slippery life. Du Bartas (Trans. ). [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A heap of dung. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Any mean situation or condition; a vile abode. [ 1913 Webster ]

He . . . lifteth up the beggar from the dunghill. 1. Sam. ii. 8. [ 1913 Webster ]

Dunghill fowl, a domestic fowl of common breed. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A low hill at the foot of higher hills or mountains. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. hil, hul, AS. hyll; akin to OD. hille, hil, L. collis, and prob. to E. haulm, holm, and column. Cf. 2d Holm. ] 1. A natural elevation of land, or a mass of earth rising above the common level of the surrounding land; an eminence less than a mountain. [ 1913 Webster ]

Every mountain and hill shall be made low. Is. xl. 4. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The earth raised about the roots of a plant or cluster of plants. [ U. S. ] See Hill, v. t. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A single cluster or group of plants growing close together, and having the earth heaped up about them; as, a hill of corn or potatoes. [ U. S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Hill ant (Zool.), a common ant (Formica rufa), of Europe and America, which makes mounds or ant-hills over its nests. --
Hill myna (Zool.), one of several species of birds of India, of the genus Gracula, and allied to the starlings. They are easily taught to speak many words. [ Written also hill mynah. ] See Myna. --
Hill partridge (Zool.), a partridge of the genus Aborophila, of which numerous species in habit Southern Asia and the East Indies. --
Hill tit (Zool.), one of numerous species of small Asiatic singing birds of the family Leiotrichidæ. Many are beautifully colored. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Hilled p. pr. & vb. n. Hilling. ] To surround with earth; to heap or draw earth around or upon; as, to hill corn. [ 1913 Webster ]

Showing them how to plant and hill it. Palfrey. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state of being hilly. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act or process of heaping or drawing earth around plants. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A small hill. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The side or declivity of a hill. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The top of a hill. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Abounding with hills; uneven in surface; as, a hilly country. “Hilly steep.” Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Lofty; as, hilly empire. [ Obs. ] Beau. & Fl. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Min.) A mineral of a yellowish or greenish white color, consisting of the sulphate and carbonate of lead; -- so called from having been first found at Leadhills, Scotland. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A little hillock of earth thrown up by moles working under ground; hence, a very small hill, or an insignificant obstacle or difficulty; as, to make a mountain out of a molehill. [ 1913 Webster ]

Having leapt over such mountains, lie down before a molehill. South. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (O. Eng. Law) A hill of meeting or council; an elevated place in the open air where public assemblies or courts were held by the Saxons; -- called, in Scotland, mute-hill. J. R. Green. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Moot-hill. [ Scot. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

(Bot.) The lichen from which archil is obtained. See Archil. [ 1913 Webster ]

prop. n. [ L. Mons Palatinus, It. Monte Palatino. ] One of the "seven hills" of Rome, situated southeast of the Capitoline and north-northeast of the Aventine. It borders on the Roman Forum; is the traditional seat of the city founded by Romulus; was the seat of private and later of imperial residences; and contains many antiquities. [ Century Dict., 1906 ]

n. [ So named after John Phillips, an English mineralogist. ] (Min.) A hydrous silicate of aluminia, lime, and soda, a zeolitic mineral commonly occurring in complex twin crystals, often cruciform in shape; -- called also christianite. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Phillyrin + -gen + -in. ] (Chem.) A pearly crystalline substance obtained by the decomposition of phillyrin. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ NL., fr. Gr. &unr_;, &unr_;. ] (Bot.) A genus of evergreen plants growing along the shores of the Mediterranean, and bearing a fruit resembling that of the olive. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Chem.) A glucoside extracted from Phillyrea as a bitter white crystalline substance. It is sometimes used as a febrifuge. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ NL. ] (Bot.) Same as Rhachilla. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ NL., fr. Gr. "ra`chis the spine.] (Bot.) A branch of inflorescence; the zigzag axis on which the florets are arranged in the spikelets of grasses. [1913 Webster]

n. A nickname given to any “poor white” living in the pine woods which cover the sandy hills in Georgia and South Carolina. [ U.S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ G., play of colors. ] (Min.) The peculiar bronzelike luster observed in certain minerals, as hypersthene, schiller spar, etc. It is due to the presence of minute inclusions in parallel position, and is sometimes of secondary origin. [ 1913 Webster ]

Schiller spar (Min.), an altered variety of enstatite, exhibiting, in certain positions, a bronzelike luster. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Min.) The act or process of producing schiller in a mineral mass. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ G. See Shilling. ] Any one of several small German and Dutch coins, worth from about one and a half cents to about five cents. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To shell. [ Obs. or Prov. Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ Cf. Sheal. ] To put under cover; to sheal. [ Prov.ng. ] Brockett. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. An oaken sapling or cudgel; any cudgel; -- so called from Shillelagh, a place in Ireland of that name famous for its oaks. [ Irish ] [ Written also shillaly, and shillely. ] [ 1913 Webster ]