[f. CHILLY a. + -NESS.] Chilly state or condition.
1708. Brit. Apollo, No. 63. 2/1. Chillyness, or sense of Cold.
1762. Achard, in Phil. Trans., LIII. 102. The bird … from a chillyness in the air, did not revive to be able to fly.
1763. Mackenzie, Phil. Trans., LIV. 74. The pestilential fever shews itself first by a chilliness and shiverings.
1817. J. Gilchrist, Intellect. Patrimony, 45. Cheerless chilliness of heart.
