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Word Meanings - QUIETSOME - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Calm; still. Spenser.

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  • STILLY
    Still; quiet; calm. The stilly hour when storms are gone. Moore.
  • STILLBIRTH
    The birth of a dead fetus.
  • STILLSTAND
    A standstill. Shak.
  • STILLING
    A stillion.
  • STILLAGE
    A low stool to keep the goods from touching the floor. Knight.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • STILLATORY
    1. An alembic; a vessel for distillation. Bacon. 2. A laboratory; a place or room in which distillation is performed. Dr. H. More. Sir H. Wotton.
  • STILL-CLOSING
    Ever closing. "Still-clothing waters." Shak.
  • STILLATITIOUS
    Falling in drops; drawn by a still.
  • STILL-BURN
    To burn in the process of distillation; as, to still-burn brandy.
  • STILLICIDE
    A continual falling or succession of drops; rain water falling from the eaves. Bacon.
  • STILLER
    One who stills, or quiets.
  • STILL
    stille; akin to D. stil, OS. & OHG. stilli, G. still, Dan. stille, Sw. stilla, and to E. stall; from the idea of coming to a stand, or 1. Motionless; at rest; quiet; as, to stand still; to lie or sit still. "Still as any stone." Chaucer.
  • STILLICIDIOUS
    Falling in drops.
  • STILLSON WRENCH
    A pipe wrench having an adjustable L-shaped jaw piece sliding in a sleeve that is pivoted to, and loosely embraces, the handle. Pressure on the handle increases the grip.
  • SPENSERIAN
    Of or pertaining to the English poet Spenser; -- specifically applied to the stanza used in his poem "The Faƫrie Queene."
  • STILLNESS
    1. The quality or state of being still; quietness; silence; calmness; inactivity. Painting, then, was the art demanded by the modern intellect upon its emergence from the stillness of the Middle Ages. J. A. Symonds. 2. Habitual silence or quiet;
  • STILLHOUSE
    A house in which distillation is carried on; a distillery.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • FINESTILLER
    One who finestills.
  • INSTILLATOR
    An instiller.
  • DISPENSER
    One who, or that which, dispenses; a distributer; as, a dispenser of favors.
  • PISTILLATION
    The act of pounding or breaking in a mortar; pestillation. Sir T. Browne.
  • STONE-STILL
    As still as a stone. Shak.
  • DISTILLATORY
    Belonging to, or used in, distilling; as, distillatory vessels. -- n.
  • INSTILLER
    One who instills. Skelton.
  • POSTILLATOR
    One who postillates; one who expounds the Scriptures verse by verse.
  • STOCK-STILL
    Still as a stock, or fixed post; perfectly still. His whole work stands stock-still. Sterne.

 

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