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chilly

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1. chilly - Noun

2. chilly - Adjective

3. chilly - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Moderately cold; cold and raw or damp so as to cause shivering; causing or feeling a disagreeable sensation of cold, or a shivering.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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Words to me were magic. You could say a word and it could conjure up all kinds of images or feelings or a chilly sensation or whatever. It was amazing to me that words had this power. Amy Tan

The best an American can look forward to is the lonely pleasure of one who stands at long last on a chilly and inhospitable mountaintop where few have been before, where few can follow and where few will consent to believe he has been. George F. Kennan

Sweater, n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly. Ambrose Bierce

Here today we huddle tight As the darkest heathens might The snow falls chilly on our skin The snow is forcing its way in. Hush, snow, come in with us to dwell: We were thrown out by Heaven as well. Bertolt Brecht

The night's chilly breath tickles up my neck and finds my ear, whispering secrets only the wind knows. Libba Bray

Like a mermaid in sea-weed, she dreams awake, trembling in her soft and chilly nest. John Keats

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