Word Meanings - EXCELSIOR - Book Publishers vocabulary database

More lofty; still higher; ever upward.

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• STILLY
  Still; quiet; calm. The stilly hour when storms are gone. Moore.
• HIGHER-UP
  A superior officer or official; -- used chiefly in pl.
• STILLBIRTH
  The birth of a dead fetus.
• HIGHERING
  Rising higher; ascending. In ever highering eagle circles. Tennyson.
• 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.
• LOFTY
  1. Lifted high up; having great height; towering; high. See lofty Lebanon his head advance. Pope. 2. Fig.: Elevated in character, rank, dignity, spirit, bearing, language, etc.; exalted; noble; stately; characterized by pride; haughty. The high
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.