2. Noun. (medicine) A feeling of being cold, a symptom of many conditions. ¹
3. Verb. (third-person singular of chill) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Chills
1. chill [v] - See also: chill
Lexicographical Neighbors of Chills
Literary usage of Chills
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Transactions by Homoeopathic Medical Society of the State of New York (1882)
"In the first place, Quinine is not a specific for chills and fever. ... There is,
however, a certain type of chills which calls as surely for Quinine (in ..."
2. Differential diagnosis by Richard Clarke Cabot (1912)
"CHAPTER XIV chills THE rapid clonic spasm of many muscles which may be the only
mark of ... Hence the distinction between "nervous chills" and those due to ..."
3. Proceedings by Philadelphia County Medical Society (1895)
"The doses ranged from two to three grains, and when the time for the chills
arrived the children were asleep and perspiring. I have employed the drug quite ..."
4. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1883)
"He had chills upon the sixth and eighth days, and upon the latter date, the dose
was made thirty-five drops four times daily. He had я chill upon the next ..."
5. Transactions of the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical and (1883)
"A SUGGESTED CURE FOR BLAST-FURNACE chills. BY HENKY M. HOWE, AM, ME, BOSTON, MASS.
... But when mechanical obstructions, which so often accompany chills, ..."
6. Salt-water Ballads by John Masefield (1915)
"FEVER-chills HE tottered out of the alleyway with cheeks the colour of paste,
And shivered a spell and mopped his brow with a clout of cotton waste: 'I've a ..."
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