[f. as prec. + -ING2.]
1. That chills: in various senses of the verb.
a. 1400[?]. Morte Arth., 2966. The chillande watire one his chekes rynnyde.
c. 1420. Pallad. on Husb., IV. 452. At Juill and Aust in landes chillingest [frigidissimis].
1563. Sackville, Myrr. Mag., Induct. 4. His frosty face With chilling cold had pearst the tender green.
1588. Shaks., Tit. A., II. iii. 212. A chilling sweat ore-runs my trembling ioynts.
1726. Swift, On Poetry. Our chilling Climate hardly bears A Sprig of Bays in fifty years.
1814. Scott, Ld. of Isles, V. xvi. Chilling news.
1876. Geo. Eliot, Dan. Der., II. xvii. 144. Chilling suspicious manners.
1878. Huxley, Physiogr., 40.
2. Comb., as chilling-cold, so cold as to chill.
1616. R. Carpenter, Past Charge, 14. Some of them were chilling cold in charitie.
1801. Southey, Thalaba, X. xii. To the touch They are chilling cold.
Hence Chillingly adv.
c. 1784. in Mad. D’Arblay (F. Hall).
1804. Moore, Poems, I. 349. Think not the veil he so chillingly casts, Is the veil of a vestal severe.
1841. Blackw. Mag., L. 737. Till evening’s breeze blew chillingly and dreary.
1870. Pall Mall Gaz., 25 Aug., 2/1. They [next-door neighbours] are either on terms of the closest intimacy or chillingly distant.
