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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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... written, and more volumes might still be written, on this subject. But I must content myself here with saying that I believe there is no province which illustrates so thoroughly all the distressing features of these manifold and complicated problems of colonization, of permanent settlements, with ...
— Russian Rambles • Isabel F. Hapgood
... that bright band of very noble young spirits, of my brother's love and admiration for them, of their affection for him, of our pleasant intercourse in those far-off early days,—in spite of the faithful, life-long regard which still subsists between myself and the few survivors of that goodly company, my heart sinks with a heavy sense of loss, and the world from which so much light has departed seems dark ...
— Records of a Girlhood • Frances Anne Kemble
... fact that she had taken it simply and without any protest. On the whole, he was glad. To have called her by the formal name by which he had known her might have struck some chord of pain. He did not even know that she bore it still. Dallas might be dead or worse than dead to her. A score of possibilities suggested themselves to his mind. But he felt he must try, if possible, to make her ...
— A Beautiful Alien • Julia Magruder
... surprise. Hereupon Caesar's eyelids began to quiver, and in a threatening tone he reminded his bloody-handed tool of those whom he had ordered him to take alive. Still Zminis was silent, and Caesar furiously shrieked his demand as to whether by his blundering Heron's daughter had escaped; whether he could not produce the gem-cutter and his son. The blood-stained butcher then perceived that Caesar's murderous sword might be turned against him also. Still, he was ...
— Uarda • Georg Ebers
... had grown attached to him, but she drooped and pined away after he lost his false teeth in crossing a river, and tried to replace them with orange-peel, a trick he had learnt at school. Sir HENRY's fight with She-who-will-never-Obey is still remembered. He will carry the marks of her nails on his cheeks to his grave. I myself am tired of wandering. "Home, Sweet Home," as the Bab Ballads have it, is the ...
— Punch, or The London Charivari, Vol. 100., Jan. 17, 1891 • Various


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