Definition of still

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Still (a.) To stop, as noise; to silence..

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Stilling :: Stilled (imp. & p. p.) of Stil.
Metacetone :: Metacetone (n.) A colorless liquid of an agreeable odor, C6H10O, obtained by distilling a mixture of sugar and lime; -- so called because formerly regarded as a polymeric modification of acetone..
Unoriginated :: Unoriginated (a.) Not yet caused to be, or to be made; as, possible inventions still unoriginated..
Shamanism :: Shamanism (n.) The type of religion which once prevalied among all the Ural-Altaic peoples (Tungusic, Mongol, and Turkish), and which still survives in various parts of Northern Asia. The Shaman, or wizard priest, deals with good as well as with evil spirits, especially the good spirits of ancestors..
Stillness :: Stillness (n.) The quality or state of being still; quietness; silence; calmness; inactivity.
Still-closing :: Still-burn (p. pr. & vb. n.) To burn in the process of distillation; as, to still-burn brandy..
Stillroom :: Stillroom (n.) A room for distilling.
Tri/cious :: Tri/cious (a.) Having three sorts of flowers on the same or on different plants, some of the flowers being staminate, others pistillate, and others both staminate and pistillate; belonging to the order Tri/cia..
Cespitine :: Cespitine (n.) An oil obtained by distillation of peat, and containing various members of the pyridine series..
Moonshiner :: Moonshiner (n.) A person engaged in illicit distilling; -- so called because the work is largely done at night.
Rectify :: Rectify (v. t.) To produce ( as factitious gin or brandy) by redistilling low wines or ardent spirits (whisky, rum, etc.), flavoring substances, etc., being added..
Retort :: Retort (v. t.) A vessel in which substances are subjected to distillation or decomposition by heat. It is made of different forms and materials for different uses, as a bulb of glass with a curved beak to enter a receiver for general chemical operations, or a cylinder or semicylinder of cast iron for the manufacture of gas in gas works..
Fraction :: Fraction (v. t.) To separate by means of, or to subject to, fractional distillation or crystallization; to fractionate; -- frequently used with out; as, to fraction out a certain grade of oil from pretroleum..
Distill :: Distill (n. & v) To practice the art of distillation.
Berber :: Berber (n.) A member of a race somewhat resembling the Arabs, but often classed as Hamitic, who were formerly the inhabitants of the whole of North Africa from the Mediterranean southward into the Sahara, and who still occupy a large part of that region; -- called also Kabyles. Also, the language spoken by this people..
Alcohol :: Alcohol (n.) Pure spirit of wine; pure or highly rectified spirit (called also ethyl alcohol); the spirituous or intoxicating element of fermented or distilled liquors, or more loosely a liquid containing it in considerable quantity. It is extracted by simple distillation from various vegetable juices and infusions of a saccharine nature, which have undergone vinous fermentation..
Preternatural :: Preternatural (a.) Beyond of different from what is natural, or according to the regular course of things, but not clearly supernatural or miraculous; strange; inexplicable; extraordinary; uncommon; irregular; abnormal; as, a preternatural appearance; a preternatural stillness; a preternatural presentation (in childbirth) or labor..
Calm :: Calm (n.) To make calm; to render still or quiet, as elements; as, to calm the winds..
Ignoramus :: Ignoramus (n.) We are ignorant; we ignore; -- being the word formerly written on a bill of indictment by a grand jury when there was not sufficient evidence to warrant them in finding it a true bill. The phrase now used is, No bill, No true bill, or Not found, though in some jurisdictions Ignored is still used..
Naphthalene :: Naphthalene (n.) A white crystalline aromatic hydrocarbon, C10H8, analogous to benzene, and obtained by the distillation of certain bituminous materials, such as the heavy oil of coal tar. It is the type and basis of a large number of derivatives among organic compounds. Formerly called also naphthaline..
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