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His sceptre ’gainst the ground he threw, 
And tears still'd from him which mov’d all the crew. 
Chapman. 
STILL-LIFE, s. [A term in painting.] Things that 
have only vegetable lite. Mason. —Even that, which, ac¬ 
cording to a term of art we commonly call still-life, must 
have its superiority and just preference in a tablature of its 
own species. Ld. Shaftesbury. 
STILLFRIED, a small town of Lower Austria, on the 
March. Near this town, Ottocar, king of Bohemia, was 
defeated and slain by the emperor Rodolph in 1278; 7 miles 
north-east of Weikersdorf. 
STILLATI'TIOUS, ad/. [stillatitius, Lat.] Falling in 
drops; drawn by a still. 
STI'LLATORY, s. An alembic; a vessel in which dis¬ 
tillation is performed.—In all stillatories the vapour is 
turned back upon itself, by the encounter of the sides of the 
stillatory. Bacon. —The room in which stills are placed ; 
laboratory.—All offices that require heat, as kitchens, stilla¬ 
tories, stoves, should be meridional. Wotton. —These are 
nature’s stillatories, in whose caverns the ascending vapours 
are congealed to that universal aquavitoe, that good fresh 
water. More against Atheism. 
STI'LLBORN, adj. [j tille-bopene, Sax.] Born lifeless; 
dead in the birth. 
Grant that our hopes, yet likely of fair birth, 
Should be stillborn ; and that we now possest 
The utmost man of expectation ; we are 
A body strong enough to equal with the king. Shalcspeare. 
STI'LLICIDE, s. [ stillicidium, Lat.] A succession of 
drops.—The stillicides of water, if there be water enough to 
follow, will draw themselves into a small thread; because 
thev will not discontinue. Bacon. 
STILLICPDIOUS, adj. Falling in drops.—Crystal is 
found sometimes in rocks, and in some places not unlike the 
stirious or stillicidious dependencies of ice. Brown. 
STl'LLING, s- The act of stilling.—A stand for casks. 
STILLINGFLEET (Edward), a learned prelate of the 
English church, was born in the year 1635; after prepara¬ 
tory education in the grammar-schools of Cranbourn and 
Ringwood, he was elected in 1648 to St. John’s College, 
Cambridge, and was chosen fellow in 1653, and presented 
to the rectory of Sutton, in Bedfordshire, in 1657. In 1659, 
he published his “ Irenicum, or the Divine Right of parti¬ 
cular Forms of Church Government examined,” hoping, by 
this publication, to remove the prejudices, and conciliate the 
attachment of those who were alienated from the church of 
England. In this treatise he maintains, that Christ did not 
determine the form of the government of his church by any 
positive laws; that the apostles adapted it to the various 
circumstances of time, place and persons; that episcopacy 
is lawful; that in the primitive church no invariable form 
of church government was adopted; and that the most 
eminent divines, at the Reformation, did not conceive any 
one particular form to be necessary. The Irenicum was 
highly commended for its learning and moderation ; but 
the author himself, as Bishop Burnet says, desirous of avoid¬ 
ing the imputations of hostility to the church which it occa¬ 
sioned, retracted the book, and gave way to the humours of 
a high sort of people, beyond what became him, perhaps 
beyond his own sense of things. His next work was en¬ 
titled, “ Origines Sacra:; or a rational Account of the 
Christian Faith, as to the Truth and Divine Authority of the 
Scriptures, and the Matters therein contained;’’ 4to. A 
work of his, published in 1685, was entitled “ Origines 
Britttnniccc, or the Antiquities of the British Churches,” 
which gave an ample view of the origin and progress of 
Christian churches in Britain, since the first introduction of 
Christianity in the island to the conversion of the Saxons. 
He published a multitude of theological works, which betray 
great learning and talents. 
STILLINGFLEET, a parish in the East Riding of York¬ 
shire, situated on the river Ouse; 8 miles south-by-west of 
York. 
STILLINGIA [so named by Alexander Garden, in honour 
of Benjamin Stillingfleet], in Botany, a genus of Jhe class 
monoecia, order monadelphia, natural order of tricoccse 
euphorbise (Juss.) —Generic Character. Male flowers di¬ 
gested in an amentaceous spike. Calyx: perianth many- 
flowered (seven-flowered), coriaceous, hemispherical, pitcher¬ 
shaped, quite entire; with two goblet-shaped glands. Co¬ 
rolla one petalled, fistular-funnel-form, widening gradually, 
much narrower than the calyx: mouth undivided, torn, 
ciliate. Stamina: filaments two, filiform, twice as long as 
the corolla, divaricating at the top, very slightly united at 
the base. Anthers twin reniform. Female flowers few, at 
the base of the same spike. Calyx: perianth one-flowered: 
the rest as in the males. Corolla superior. Pistil: germ 
roundish, between the calyx and corolla. Style filiform. 
Stigmas three, distinct, recurved. Pericarp: capsule tri- 
coccous, subturbinate, subtrigonal, three-celled, surrounded 
at the base by the widened calyx. Seeds solitary, oblong, 
subtrigonal, with a transverse scar on the inner side.— Essen¬ 
tial Character. Male: calyx hemispherical, many-flow¬ 
ered. Corolla tubular, erose. Female: calyx one-flowered, 
inferior. Corolla superior. Style trifid. Capsule tricoc- 
cous. 
Stillingia sylvatica..—This is a shrub, with many upright, 
round, milky stems, three feet high, terminated by a spike. 
Two branches commonly spring out at the base of the spike. 
Leaves alternate, petioled, remote, elliptic, serrulate, shining, 
spreading. Spike or ament terminating, sessile. Flowers 
small, yellow.—Native of Carolina, in pine woods. 
STILLINGTON, a hamlet in Durham; 6J miles north¬ 
west of Stockton-upon-Tees. 
STILLINGTON, a parish in the East Biding of York¬ 
shire ; 4i miles east-south-east of Easingwold. 
STl'LLNESS, s. [j-cillnejje, Sax.] Calm; quiet; silence; 
freedom from noise. 
How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank! 
Here will we sit, and let the sounds of music 
Creep in our ears; soft stillness and the night 
Become the touches of sweet harmony. Shalcspeare. 
Habitual silence; taciturnity. 
The gravity and stillness of your youth 
The world hath noted. Shalcspeare. 
STI'LLSTAND, 5. Absence of motion. 
The tide swell’d up unto his height. 
Then makes a stillstand, running neither way. Shalcspeare. 
STILL VALLEY, a post village of the United States, in 
Sussex county, New Jersey. 
STILL WATER, a post township of the United States, 
in Saratoga county, New York, on the west side of the 
Hudson. Bemas’s Heights are in this township; 3 miles 
north of the village. This place is famous for a battle fought 
on the 19th of September 1777, between the Americans and 
British. Population 2492; 22 miles north of Albany. 
STILL WATER, a post township of the United States, 
in Sussex county. New Jersey. 
STILL WATER, a river of the United States, in Ohio, 
which runs south-east into the Great Miami, above Dayton, 
and opposite the- mouth of Mad river. 
STI'LLY, adv. [jxilhce, Sax.] Silently; not loudly; 
gently. 
From camp to camp, through the foul womb of night. 
The hum of either army stilly sounds. Shalcspeare. 
Calmly; not tumultuously. 
Thus mindless of what idle men will say, 
He takes his own, and stilly goes his way. More. 
STILO, a small town in the south of the kingdom of 
Naples, in Calabria Ultra, with a population of 1800. Here 
are the principal iron mines of Calabria. Some silver, lead 
and copper, are also found here; 22 miles south-east of 
Mileto. 
STILO, a cape on the east coast of Calabria. Lat, 38 
27. N. long. 16.52. E. 
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