| 单词 | to catch a chill |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto catch a chill 2. Coldness seizing upon or pervading the body; an unnaturally lowered bodily temperature marked by shivering, etc.; the cold fit of an ague; now especially a sudden affection of physical cold, a sudden chilling of the body, which is often a first stage or symptom of illness; hence, to catch a chill, to give (one) a chill, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > fever > [noun] > ague > cold stage of colda1398 rigora1400 rigour1541 chill1601 algor1716 1601 J. Weever Mirror of Martyrs sig. Avjv A cold congealed ice, a bloudlesse chill. 1714 W. Derham Physico-theol. (ed. 2) iv. iii. 136 To have a sort of Chill about his Præcordia and Head. 1796 R. Southey Joan of Arc x. 403 The death-doom'd foe..Felt such a chill run through his shivering frame. 1802 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 8 310 Irregular chills, fever and sweats. 1861 F. Nightingale Notes on Nursing (new ed.) xvi. 91 You may give baby a chill which will kill it..without giving it fresh air at all. < as lemmas |
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