ppl. a. [f. CHILL v. + -ED1.]
1. Made sensibly cold; injuriously or unpleasantly affected with cold.
1611. Chapman, Iliad, III. 43 (R.). He said, and Priams aged ioints with chilled feare did shake.
1820. Keats, Lamia, I. 140. The God fostering her chilled hand.
1865. Dickens, Mut. Fr., III. i. Presenting a comfortable rampart of shoulder to the chilled figure of the man.
1877. Bryant, Little People of Snow, 292. Strove … To make the chilled blood move.
2. techn. Of cast iron: Rapidly cooled, and so hardened. Cf. CHILL v. 6.
1831. [see CHILL v. 6].
1868. Pall Mall Gaz., 2 Dec., 4/1. Major Palliser, whose inventions—particularly his chilled shot—have been and are productive of enormous saving to the country.
1875. Ure, 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.
1883. Birmingham Daily Post, 11 Oct., 3/4. Advt., Mixing metal, annealings, casting chilled ploughshares.
3. Painting. Clouded or ‘bloomed.’
1882. 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.
1882. Field, 7 Oct., 505. A thirsty horse … can then be either given gruel or chilled water.
† 5. Chilled-cold: = chill-cold: see CHILL-. Obs.
