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"Nectary, a yellow fleshy ring, surrounding the base of the 
germ. Germ obliquely ovate. Styles two, spreading; one 
of them always two-cleft. Stigmas simple. Drupe minute, 
succulent, one-celled. Nut one-celled, very small. It is a 
large tree.—Native of the mountainous parts of the Circars; 
and flowers in June. 
The fruit, when ripe, is eaten by the natives. The wood 
serves for various uses. 
STI'LAR, adj. Belonging to the stile of a dial.—At 
fifty-one and a half degrees, which is London’s latitude, 
make a mark, and laying a ruler to the centre of the plane 
and to this mark, draw a line for the stilar line. Moxon. 
ST1LBE [2tjA£ij, nitor, splendor: from the shining 
appearance of the seeds], in Botany, a genus of the class 
polygamia, order dioecia.—-Generic Character. Herma¬ 
phrodite-— Calyx exterior: perianth three-leaved (setting 
aside the four exterior ones): leaflets lanceolate, spread¬ 
ing and mucronate.■—Inferior: perianth one-leafed, five¬ 
toothed, cartilaginous. Corolla one-petalled, funnel-form: 
tube length of the calyx: border five-parted: parts 
linear. Stamina : filaments four, awl-shaped, placed on the 
throat. Anthers cordate, obtuse. Pistil: germ superior, 
ovate. Style filiform, length of the stamens. Stigma 
acute. Pericarp none: but the interior calyx inclosing, 
hardened, deciduous. Seed one. Male, on a distinct indi¬ 
vidual. Calyx exterior as in the hermaphrodite. Interior 
none. Corolla as in the hermaphrodite; but the tube mem¬ 
branaceous. Stamina as in the hermaphrodite. Pericarp 
and seed none. Hermaphrodite: calyx exterior, three¬ 
leaved. Interior five-toothed, cartilaginous. Corolla fun¬ 
nel-form, five-cleft. Stamina four. Seed one, calyptred 
with the interior calyx. Male similar. Calyx, interior none. 
Fruit none. (The sex on a distinct plant.) 
1. Stilbe pinastra.—-Branches alternate, stiff, rugged with 
the remaining bases of the leaves. Leaves whorled in clus¬ 
ters, acute, smooth. Spikes oblong, terminating, sessile, 
imbricate; with bractes the length of the flowers.—-Native of 
the Cape of Good Hope, by rivulets. 
2. Stilbe ericoides.—Leaves in fours, lanceolate. Stature 
of an erica or heath. Spike terminating, sessile, growing 
out. Corollas even.—Native of the Cape of Good Hope. 
3. Stilbe cernua.—-Spikes drooping; leaves in fours. This 
is very like the first species, but the branchlets with the head 
hang down.-—Native of the Cape of Good Hope. 
STILE, s. jjCigele, from ptigan, Sax. to climb.'] A set 
of steps to pass from one enclosure to another.—-There comes 
my master and another gentleman from Frogmore over the 
stile this way. ShaJcspeare. 
The little strutting pile. 
You see just by the church-yard stile. Swift. 
[Stile, Fr.] A pin to cast the shadow in a sun-dial. 
This should rather be style. —Erect the stile perpendicularly 
over the substilar line, so as to make an angle with the dial- 
plane equal to the elevation of the pole of your place. 
Moxon. 
STILE'TTO, s. [Ital.; stilet, Fr.] A small dagger, of 
which the blade is not edged but round, with a sharp point. 
—When a senator should be tom in pieces, he hired one 
who entering info the senate-house, should assault him as an 
enemy to the state 5 and stabbing him with stilettoes, leave 
him to be torn by others. HakewilL 
STILICHO, or Stilichon. See Rome. 
To STILL, v.a. [pedlan, Sax.; stillen, Dutch; stillen. 
Germ., which has the substantive stille, rest; the Saxon, 
the adjective ptille, quiet.] To silence; to make silent. 
Is this the scourge of France ? 
Is this the Talbot so much fear’d abroad, 
That with his name the mothers still their babes? 
ShaJcspeare. 
To quiet; to appease.-—In all refrainings of anger, it is 
the best remedy to make a man’s self believe, that the 
opportunity of revenge is not yet come; but that he fore¬ 
sees a time for it, and so to still himself in the mean time, 
and reserve it. Bacon. —To make motionless.-—He having 
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a full sway over the water, had power to still and compose 
it, as well as to move and disturb it. Woodward. 
STILL, adj. [jXille, Sax.; stil, Dutch.] Silent; utter¬ 
ing no noise. It is well observed by Junius, that st is the 
sound commanding silence. 
We do not act, that often jest and laugh: 
’Tis old but true, still swine eat all the draugh. ShaJcspeare. 
Your wife Octavia, with her modest eyes. 
And still conclusion, shall acquire no honour, 
Demuring upon me. ShaJcspeare. 
Quiet; calm. 
Atin when he spied 
Thus in still waves of deep delight to wade, 
Fiercely approaching to him, loudly cry’d. Spenser. 
From hence my lines and I depart, 
I to my soft still walks, they to my heart; 
I to the nurse, they to the child of art. Donne. 
Motionless.—Grecia sits still, but with no still pensive¬ 
ness. Sidney .-—That, in this state of ignorance, we short¬ 
sighted creatures might not mistake true felicity, we are en¬ 
dowed with a power to suspend any particular desire. This 
is standing still, where we are not sufficiently assured. 
Locke. —Continual; constant. 
But that still use of grief makes wild grief tame, 
My tongue should to thy ears not name my boys, 
Till that my nails were anchor’d in thine eyes. ShaJcspeare. 
Gentle; not loud. This, as well as the preceding sense, 
is overpassed in Dr. Johnson’s and other dictionaries.—A 
still small voice. 1 Kings.—Still music. Shakspeare. 
Me softer airs befit, and softer strings 
Of lute or viol still, more apt for mournful things. Milton. 
STILL, s. [stille, Germ.] Calm; silent. 
Herne the hunter. 
Sometime a keeper here in Windsor forest. 
Doth all the winter time, at still of midnight. 
Walk round about an oak with ragged horns. Shakspeare. 
STILL, adv. [pcille, Sax.] To this time; till now.—It 
hath been anciently reported, and is still received, that 
extreme applauses of great multitudes have so rarified the air, 
that birds flying over have fallen down. Bacon. —Never¬ 
theless; notwithstanding.—The desire of fame betrays the 
ambitious man into indecencies that lessen his reputation; 
he is still afraid lest any of his actions should be thrown 
away in private. Addison. —In an encreasing degree.— 
The moral perfections of the Deity, the more attentively we 
consider, the more perfectly still shall we know them. 
Atterbury .-—Always; ever; continually. — Unless God 
from heaven did by vision still shew them what to do, they 
might do nothing. Hooker. —After that.—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. Whit gift. —In continuance. 
I with my hand at midnight held your head : 
And, like the watchful minutes to the hour. 
Still and anon cheer’d up the heavy time, 
Saying, what want you. Shakspeare. 
STILL, s. A vessel for distillation; an alembic. 
Nature’s confectioner, the bee. 
Whose sockets are moist alchemy ; 
The still of his refining mold. 
Minting the garden into gold. Cleaveland. 
To STILL, v. a. To distil; to extract or operate upon 
by distillation. 
Then starts she suddenly into a throng 
Of short thick sobs, whose thundering volleys float. 
And roll themselves over her lubrick throat 
In panting murmurs, still'd out of her breast, 
That ever bubbling spring. Crashaw. 
To STILL, v.n. [stillo, Lat.] To drop; to fall in drops. 
Out of use. 
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