[f. CHILL v. + -ING1.] The action of the verb CHILL in various senses.
1393. Langl., P. Pl., C. IX. 335. For chillynge of hir Mawe.
c. 1440. Promp. Parv., 75. Chyllynge of tethe or oþer lyke, frigidor.
1664. Evelyn, Kal. Hort. (1729), 206. The Water endangers the chilling and rotting of the Fibres.
1861. Flor. Nightingale, Nursing, ii. 13. Whenever a tendency to chilling is discovered, hot bottles … should be made use of.
b. spec.; see CHILL v. 6.
1831. J. Holland, Manuf. Metals, I. 72. To case-harden railroad plates by casting them upon a piece of cold iron … [is] termed chilling.
1881. Metal World, VIII. 120. The property of chilling in iron is dependent to a large extent on the absence of silicon, and to the presence of carbon in what has been called the third form.
