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STILL . (I) (O. Eng. stille, a word appearing in many See also:

Teutonic See also:

LANGUAGES

languages, all derived from the See also:

root, meaning to set in position or See also:

REST (O. Eng. rest, reste, bed, cognate with other Teutonic forms, e.g. Ger. Rast, Riiste, rest, and probably Gothic Rasta, league, i.e. resting or stopping place)

rest, seen in " See also:

STALL (0. Eng. steall, stael, cf. Du. stal, Ger. and Swed. Stall, a common Teutonic word for a place, station, place for standing in; the root is the Indo-European std–, to stand, seen also in Latin stabulum, Greek vraO bs, and in stallion, an entire hors

stall," Ger. stellen, &c.), motionless, noiseless, or when used of wines or See also:

MINERAL

mineral See also:

WATERS, TERRITORIAL

waters, having little or no effervescence. As an adverb, " still" has preserved the See also:

ORIGINAL

original sense of " that which preserves its position," and thus means continually, permanently, now as before. (2) From the shortened See also:

FORM (Lat. forma)

form of " distil," See also:

Lat. distillare, to drip, trickle down, stilla, a drop, dim. of stiria. The older word for a " still " in See also:

ENGLISH

English was stillatory, See also:

MEDIEVAL

Medieval Latin stillatorium, an apparatus for See also:

HEATING

heating substances and condensing the vapours (see See also:

DISTILLATION (from the Lat. distillare, more correctly destillare, to drop or trickle down)

DISTILLATION and See also:

SPIRITS

SPIRITS).

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