Word Meanings - LULL - Book Publishers vocabulary database
To cause to rest by soothing influences; to compose; to calm; to soothe; to quiet. " To lull him soft asleep." Spenser. Such sweet compulsion doth in music lie, To lull the daughters of necessity. Milton.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of LULL)
- Cessation
- Stopping
- halt
- discontinuance
- quiescence
- suspension
- intermission
- lull
- respite
- stop
- rest
- abeyance
- pause
- Quiet Allay
- appease
- still
- pacify
- hush
- tranquillize
- soothe
- calm
- Soothe
- Soften
- assuage
- allay
- compose
- mollify
- mitigate
- flatter
- relieve
Related words: (words related to LULL)
- STILLY
Still; quiet; calm. The stilly hour when storms are gone. Moore. - FLATTER
1. One who, or that which, makes flat or flattens. A flat-faced fulling hammer. A drawplate with a narrow, rectangular orifice, for drawing flat strips, as watch springs, etc. - STOPPING
A partition or door to direct or prevent a current of air. (more info) 1. Material for filling a cavity. - STILLBIRTH
The birth of a dead fetus. - STOPPAGE
The act of stopping, or arresting progress, motion, or action; also, the state of being stopped; as, the stoppage of the circulation of the blood; the stoppage of commerce. - STILLSTAND
A standstill. Shak. - FLATTERY
The act or practice of flattering; the act of pleasing by artiful commendation or compliments; adulation; false, insincere, or excessive praise. Just praise is only a debt, but flattery is a present. Rambler. Flattery corrupts both the receiver - STILLING
A stillion. - COMPOSE
To arrange in a composing stick in order for printing; to set . (more info) 1. To form by putting together two or more things or parts; to put together; to make up; to fashion. Zeal ought to be composed of the hidhest degrees of all - COMPOSER
1. One who composes; an author. Specifically, an author of a piece of music. If the thoughts of such authors have nothing in them, they at least . . . show an honest industry and a good intention in the composer. Addison. His most brilliant and - STILLAGE
A low stool to keep the goods from touching the floor. Knight. - MOLLIFY
1. To soften; to make tender; to reduce the hardness, harshness, or asperity of; to qualify; as, to mollify the ground. With sweet science mollified their stubborn hearts. Spenser. 2. To assuage, as pain or irritation, to appease, as - STILLION
A stand, as for casks or vats in a brewery, or for pottery while drying. - STILLROOM
1. A room for distilling. 2. An apartment in a house where liquors, preserves, and the like, are kept. Floors are rubbed bright, . . . stillroom and kitchen cleared for action. Dickens. - QUIETER
One who, or that which, quiets. - FLATTERINGLY
With flattery. - STILL-HUNT
A hunting for game in a quiet and cautious manner, or under cover; stalking; hence, colloquially, the pursuit of any object quietly and cautiously. -- Still"-hunt`er, n. -- Still"-hunt`ing, n. - QUIET
p. pf quiescere to rest, keep quiet; akin to quies rest, and prob. to E. while, n. See While, and cf. Coy, a., Quiesce, Quietus, Quit, a., 1. In a state of rest or calm; without stir, motion, or agitation; still; as, a quiet sea; quiet air. They - RELIEVEMENT
The act of relieving, or the state of being relieved; relief; release. - INSTILL
To drop in; to pour in drop by drop; hence, to impart gradually; to infuse slowly; to cause to be imbibed. That starlight dews All silently their tears of love instill. Byron. How hast thou instilled Thy malice into thousands. Milton. Syn. -- To - PISTILLIFEROUS
Pistillate. - DISQUIETTUDE
Want of peace or tranquility; uneasiness; disturbance; agitation; anxiety. Fears and disquietude, and unavoidable anxieties of mind. Abp. Sharp. - BEFLATTER
To flatter excessively. - DISQUIETLY
In a disquiet manner; uneasily; as, he rested disquietly that night. Wiseman. - CAPACIFY
To quality. The benefice he is capacified and designed for. Barrow. - UNQUIET
To disquiet. Ld. Herbert. - DISTILLABLE
Capable of being distilled; especially, capable of being distilled without chemical change or decomposition; as, alcohol is distillable; olive oil is not distillable. - DISTILLATION
The separation of the volatile parts of a substance from the more fixed; specifically, the operation of driving off gas or vapor from volatile liquids or solids, by heat in a retort or still, and the condensation of the products as far as possible - DECOMPOSE
To separate the constituent parts of; to resolve into original elements; to set free from previously existing forms of chemical combination; to bring to dissolution; to rot or decay. - FINESTILLER
One who finestills. - INSTILLATOR
An instiller. - DISQUIETMENT
State of being disquieted; uneasiness; harassment. Hopkins.