Definition of "chilling"

As they reached the street the ‘Duchess’ caught a swirling hem of lace about her chilling ankles.

1936, Djuna Barnes, Nightwood, Faber & Faber, published 2007, page 22

Displaying a sturdy professionalism throughout that stops just short of artistry, director Gary Ross, who co-scripted with Collins and Billy Ray, does his strongest work in the early scenes, which set up the stakes with chilling efficiency.

22 March 2012, Scott Tobias, AV Club The Hunger Games

To such perceivings we give names like these: seeings, hearings, smellings, chillings and burnings, pleasures and pains, desires […]

2004, Timothy D. J. Chappell, Reading Plato's Theaetetus, page 73