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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Chilly \Chill"y\, a.
     Moderately cold; cold and raw or damp so as to cause
     shivering; causing or feeling a disagreeable sensation of
     cold, or a shivering.
     [1913 Webster]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  chilly
       adj 1: uncomfortably cool; "a chill wind"; "chilly weather" [syn: {chill}]
       2: not characterized by emotion; "a female form in marble--a
          chilly but ideal medium for depicting abstract
          virtues"-C.W.Cunningham
       3: lacking warmth of feeling; "a chilly greeting"; "an
          unfriendly manner" [syn: {unfriendly}]
       n : very hot and finely tapering pepper of special pungency
           [syn: {chili}, {chili pepper}, {chilli}, {chile}]
       [also: {chilliest}, {chillier}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  126 Moby Thesaurus words for "chilly":
     Olympian, above all that, affectless, aguey, aguish, algid, aloof,
     anesthetized, arctic, autistic, backward, bashful, blank,
     blue with cold, blunt, bracing, catatonic, chattering, chill,
     chilled, cold, cold as charity, cold-blooded, coldhearted,
     constrained, cool, coolish, crisp, detached, disaccordant,
     discreet, dispassionate, distant, dithery, drugged, dull,
     emotionally dead, emotionless, exclusive, expressionless,
     forbidding, freezing, fresh, frigid, frosted, frosty, frozen,
     frozen to death, gelid, glacial, guarded, half-frozen, heartless,
     hostile, icy, immovable, impassible, impassive, impersonal,
     inaccessible, incompatible, inexcitable, inhospitable, inimical,
     insusceptible, introverted, invigorating, modest, nippy,
     nonemotional, objective, obtuse, offish, out of touch, passionless,
     remote, removed, repressed, reserved, restrained, reticent,
     retiring, seclusive, self-absorbed, shaky, shivering, shivery,
     shrinking, soulless, spiritless, standoff, standoffish,
     stimulating, strained, subdued, suppressed, temperate, tense,
     unaffable, unaffectionate, unamiable, unamicable, unapproachable,
     uncongenial, uncordial, undemonstrative, unemotional,
     unenthusiastic, unexpansive, unfeeling, unfriendly, ungenial,
     unharmonious, unimpassioned, unimpressionable, unloving,
     unpassionate, unreceptive, unresponding, unresponsive, unsociable,
     unsusceptible, unsympathetic, untouchable, with chattering teeth,
     withdrawn
  
  

















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