still hunt

A secret or quiet canva for political preferment. *still-gazing, a. Continually or silently gazing. still-life, s. Art : A term applied to that cla of pictures representing fruit, flowers, groups of furniture, dead game, or other articles, which generally form adjuncts to a picture only, and nor none of which have animate existence. *still-peering, a . Motionle in appearance (?) ( Shakesp .: All's Well , iii. 2.) Many emendations have been proposed. (Schmidt: Shakesp. Lexicon.) *still-stand, s. A halt, a stop, a stand. *still-vexed, a . In a state of continual agitation or disturbance. still, s. [STILL (2), v.] 1. A ve el or apparatus employed for the distil. lati on of liquids. It is made in various forms and of various materials, some being very simple, while Simple Form of Still. others are elaborate and complicated. They all consist e entially of a body or boiler ( a ), a worm (b) inclosed in a refrigerator, and a receiver (c). The body is generally made in two parts; the pan stillne or copper to which the heat is applied, and_the head or neck, which is removable. [ALEMBIC, DISTILLATION, RETORT.] "On the 21st I ordered the still to be fitted to the largest copper, which held about sixty-four gations." Cook: Second Voyage, bk. iv., ch. x. 2. The house or works in which liquors are distilled; a distillery.