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chilled, ppl. a.|tʃɪld|
[f. chill v. + -ed1.]
1. Made sensibly cold; injuriously or unpleasantly affected with cold.
1598Chapman Iliad i. (R.), He said, and Priams aged joynts with chilled feare did shake. 1820Keats Lamia i. 140 The God fostering her chilled hand. 1865Dickens Mut. Fr. iii. i, Presenting a comfortable rampart of shoulder to the chilled figure of the man. 1877Bryant Little People of Snow 292 Strove..To make the chilled blood move.
2. techn.
a. Of cast iron: Rapidly cooled, and so hardened. Cf. chill v. 6.
1831J. Holland Manuf. Metals I. 238 Both cases usually made of cast-iron chilled on the outside to make them hard. 1868Pall Mall G. 2 Dec., Major Palliser, whose inventions—particularly his chilled shot—have been and are productive of enormous saving to the country. 1875Ure Dict. Arts II. 474 Their chilled ploughshares and chilled railway chairs are cast in moulds of such a construction that the melted iron comes in contact with iron in those parts of the moulds where it is wanted to be chilled. 1883Birmingham Daily Post 11 Oct., Mixing metal, annealings, casting chilled ploughshares.
b. Of meat, esp. beef: kept at a moderately low temperature in cold storage, as distinguished from frozen meat.
1891R. Wallace Rural Econ. Austral. & N.Z. xxxvi. 471 About 90 per cent. of the whole frozen and chilled meat trade. 1894Daily News 23 Jan. 5/1 The newest thing is chilled beef, as distinct from frozen. 1955Times 14 May 7/3 Chilled and frozen beef sent to the United Kingdom.
3. Painting. Clouded or ‘bloomed’.
1882J. W. Mollett Art Dict., Chilled (Fr. chancissure), said of a moisture on the varnish of a picture by which the defect of cloudiness called Blooming is caused.
4. With the chill taken off.
1882Field 7 Oct. 505 A thirsty horse..can then be either given gruel or chilled water.
†5. chilled-cold: = chill-cold: see chill-. Obs. |