2. Habitual silence or quiet; taciturnity.

The gravity and stillness of your youth The world hath noted.

Shak.

Still"room` (?), n. 1. A room for distilling.

2. An apartment in a house where liquors, preserves, and the like, are

kept. [Eng.]

Floors are rubbed bright, . . . stillroom and kitchen cleared for

action.

Dickens.

Still"stand` (?), n. A standstill. [R.] Shak.

Still"y (?), a. Still; quiet; calm.

The stilly hour when storms are gone.

Moore.

Stil"ly (?), adv. In a still manner; quietly; silently; softly. Dr. H.

More.

The hum of either army stilly sounds.

Shak.

Stilp*nom"e*lane (?), n. [Gr. stilpno`s shining + me`las, -anos,

black.] (Min.) A black or greenish black mineral occurring in foliated

flates, also in velvety bronze-colored incrustations. It is a hydrous

silicate of iron and alumina.

Stilt (?), n. [OE. stilte; akin to Dan. stylte, Sw. stylta, LG. & D.

stelt, OHG. stelza, G. stelze, and perh. to E. stout.] 1. A pole, or

piece of wood, constructed with a step or loop to raise the foot above

the ground in walking. It is sometimes lashed to the leg, and sometimes

prolonged upward so as to be steadied by the hand or arm.

Ambition is but avarice on stilts, and masked.

Landor.

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