Word Meanings - INFRIGIDATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To chill; to make cold; to cool. Boyle.

Related words: (words related to INFRIGIDATE)

• CHILLINESS
  1. A state or sensation of being chilly; a disagreeable sensation of coldness. 2. A moderate degree of coldness; disagreeable coldness or rawness; as, the chilliness of the air. 3. Formality; lack of warmth.
• CHILLY
  Moderately cold; cold and raw or damp so as to cause shivering; causing or feeling a disagreeable sensation of cold, or a shivering.
• BOYLE'S LAW
  See LAW
• CHILL
  A sensation of cold with convulsive shaking of the body, pinched face, pale skin, and blue lips, caused by undue cooling of the body or by nervous excitement, or forming the precursor of some constitutional disturbance, as of a fever. 3. A check
• CHILLING
  Making chilly or cold; depressing; discouraging; cold; distant; as, a chilling breeze; a chilling manner. -- Chill"ing"ly, adv.
• CHILLI
  See CHILI
• CHILLED
  Having that cloudiness or dimness of surface that is called "blooming." (more info) 1. Hardened on the surface or edge by chilling; as, chilled iron; a chilled wheel.
• CHILLNESS
  Coolness; coldness; a chill. Death is the chillness that precedes the dawn. Longfellow.
• ORCHILLA WEED
  The lichen from which archil is obtained. See Archil.
• ACHILLEAN
  Resembling Achilles, the hero of the Iliad; invincible.
• SCHILLING
  Any one of several small German and Dutch coins, worth from about one and a half cents to about five cents.
• CHINCHILLA
  A small rodent , of the size of a large squirrel, remarkable for its fine fur, which is very soft and of a pearly gray color. It is a native of Peru and Chili. 2. The fur of the chinchilla. 3. A heavy, longnapped, tufted woolen cloth.
• ACHILLES' TENDON
  The strong tendon formed of the united tendons of the large muscles in the calf of the leg, an inserted into the bone of the heel; -- so called from the mythological account of Achilles being held by the heel when dipped in the River Styx.
• SCHILLERIZATION
  The act or process of producing schiller in a mineral mass.
• SCHILLER
  The peculiar bronzelike luster observed in certain minerals, as hypersthene, schiller spar, etc. It is due to the presence of minute inclusions in parallel position, and in sometimes of secondary origin. Schiller spar , an altered variety
• RHACHILLA
  A branch of inflorescence; the zigzag axis on which the florets are arranged in the spikelets of grasses.
• RACHILLA
  See RHACHILLA