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Still   /stɪl/   Listen
adverb
Still  adv.  
1.
To this time; until and during the time now present; now no less than before; yet. "It hath been anciently reported, and is still received."
2.
In the future as now and before. "Hourly joys be still upon you!"
3.
In continuation by successive or repeated acts; always; ever; constantly; uniformly. "The desire of fame betrays an ambitious man into indecencies that lessen his reputation; he is still afraid lest any of his actions should be thrown away in private." "Chemists would be rich if they could still do in great quantities what they have sometimes done in little."
4.
In an increasing or additional degree; even more; much used with comparatives. "The guilt being great, the fear doth still exceed."
5.
Notwithstanding what has been said or done; in spite of what has occured; nevertheless; sometimes used as a conjunction. See Synonym of But. "As sunshine, broken in the rill, Though turned astray, is sunshine still."
6.
After that; after what is stated. "In the primitive church, such as by fear being compelled to sacrifice to strange gods, after repented, and kept still the office of preaching the gospel."
Still and anon, at intervals and repeatedly; continually; ever and anon; now and then. "And like the watchful minutes to the hour, Still and anon cheered up the heavy time."


adjective
Still  adj.  (compar. stiller; superl. stillest)  
1.
Motionless; at rest; quiet; as, to stand still; to lie or sit still. "Still as any stone."
2.
Uttering no sound; silent; as, the audience is still; the animals are still. "The sea that roared at thy command, At thy command was still."
3.
Not disturbed by noise or agitation; quiet; calm; as, a still evening; a still atmosphere. "When all the woods are still."
4.
Comparatively quiet or silent; soft; gentle; low. "A still small voice."
5.
Constant; continual. (Obs.) "By still practice learn to know thy meaning."
6.
Not effervescing; not sparkling; as, still wines.
Still life. (Fine Arts)
(a)
Inanimate objects.
(b)
(Painting) The class or style of painting which represents inanimate objects, as fruit, flowers, dead game, etc.
Synonyms: Quiet; calm; noiseless; serene; motionless; inert; stagnant.


noun
Still  n.  
1.
Freedom from noise; calm; silence; as, the still of midnight. (Poetic)
2.
A steep hill or ascent. (Obs.)


Still  n.  
1.
A vessel, boiler, or copper used in the distillation of liquids; specifically, one used for the distillation of alcoholic liquors; a retort. The name is sometimes applied to the whole apparatus used in in vaporization and condensation.
2.
A house where liquors are distilled; a distillery.
Still watcher, a device for indicating the progress of distillation by the density of the liquid given over.


verb
Still  v. t.  (past & past part. stilled; pres. part. stilling)  
1.
To stop, as motion or agitation; to cause to become quiet, or comparatively quiet; to check the agitation of; as, to still the raging sea. "He having a full sway over the water, had power to still and compose it, as well as to move and disturb it."
2.
To stop, as noise; to silence. "With his name the mothers still their babies."
3.
To appease; to calm; to quiet, as tumult, agitation, or excitement; as, to still the passions. "Toil that would, at least, have stilled an unquiet impulse in me."
Synonyms: To quiet; calm; allay; lull; pacify; appease; subdue; suppress; silence; stop; check; restrain.


Still  v. t.  
1.
To cause to fall by drops.
2.
To expel spirit from by heat, or to evaporate and condense in a refrigeratory; to distill.


Still  v. i.  To drop, or flow in drops; to distill. (Obs.)





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"Still" Quotes from Famous Books



... that it is the persistence of these ovaries that causes the menstruation of which we sometimes hear as taking place after ovariotomy. Sippel records an instance of third ovary; Mangiagalli has found a supernumerary ovary in the body of a still-born child, situated to the inner side of the normal organ. Winckel discovered a large supernumerary ovary connected to the uterus by its own ovarian ligament. Klebs found two ovaries on one side, both consisting of true ...
— Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine • George M. Gould
... long struggle of unionism in America and I know the law that has governed all its ups and downs. Wherever it was still a movement it has thrived; wherever it became a mob it fell. The one Big Union was a mob. No movement based on passion finally wins; no movement based on reason finally fails. Why then say life is a riddle and ...
— The Iron Puddler • James J. Davis
... Wallace,—I have been very much struck by your whole article (returned by this post), especially as to rate of denudation, for the still glaciated surfaces have of late most perplexed me. Also especially on the lesser mutations of climate during the last 60,000 years; for I quite think with you no cause so powerful in inducing specific changes, through the consequent migrations. ...
— Alfred Russel Wallace: Letters and Reminiscences, Vol. 1 (of 2) • James Marchant
... from one another. And, in the second place, before all the many required re-adjustments could be made, the variety would die out from defective constitution. Even were there no such difficulty, we should still have to entertain a strange group of propositions, which would stand as follows:—1. Change in one part entails, by reaction on the organism, changes, in other parts, the functions of which are necessarily changed. 2. Such changes worked in the individual, affect, in some way, ...
— Essays: Scientific, Political, & Speculative, Vol. I • Herbert Spencer
... Lord Edward the 6. by the grace of God, king of England, Fraunce, and Ireland, defender of the faith, and of the Church of England and Ireland, in earth supreame head. [Footnote: "Some of these Instructions now indeed appear rather childish, but others might still be used as rules for any well-ordered exploratory expedition."— Nordenskiold, Voyage of the Vega, vol. I, ...
— The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, • Richard Hakluyt


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