Word Meanings - WHIST - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Be silent; be still; hush; silence.
Related words: (words related to WHIST)
- 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. - SILENTIARY
One appointed to keep silence and order in court; also, one sworn not to divulge secre - 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. - SILENT
Not pronounced; having no sound; quiescent; as, e is silent in "fable." 5. Having no effect; not operating; inefficient. Cause . . . silent, virtueless, and dead. Sir W. Raleigh. Silent partner. See Dormant partner, under Dormant. Syn. -- Mute; - SILENTIOUS
Habitually silent; taciturn; reticent. - STILLER
One who stills, or quiets. - SILENTNESS
State of being silent; silence. - 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. - 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. - STOCK-STILL
Still as a stock, or fixed post; perfectly still. His whole work stands stock-still. Sterne. - POSTILLER
See POSTILER