LekhoriLekhoriBecoming cold.
As they reached the street the ‘Duchess’ caught a swirling hem of lace about her chilling ankles.
Causing cold.
Causing mild fear.
It was a chilling story, but the children enjoyed it.
present participle and gerund of chill
The act by which something is chilled.
To such perceivings we give names like these: seeings, hearings, smellings, chillings and burnings, pleasures and pains, desires […]
From Middle English chilling, chelling, chyllinge, chillynge, chillande, equivalent to chill + -ing.
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