stilling i a

[Named after Dr. Benjamin Stilling fleet (1702-1771), an English botanist, grandson of Bishop Stilling fleet.] Bot.: A genus of Hippomanese. Milky trees or shrubs with alternate leaves, on petioles which have two glands at the apex; flowers moncocious, the males usually in crowded terminal spikes, with a bi-glandular bract at the base; calyx cup-shaped; stamens two, with their filaments united at the base; female solitary; calyx tridentate or trifid; stigmas three, simple; ovary three-celled, three seeded; fruit capsular, globose, with three cells, each one-seeded. From the tropics of Asia and America. Stilling i a sebifera is the Chinese Tallow tree (q. v.). The root of S. sylvatic a is considered in Carolina and Florida to be a remedy for syphilis. still-ion (i as y), s. [STILL (2), v.] The same as STILLING (2). stil-li-stě-ar-ic, a. [Mod. Lat. still i ( ngia ), and Eng.stearic.] (See def. of compound.) IMG:content-0310.png:[graphic][merged small][merged small][merged small] "Pa ing and repa ing, in great stillne between the ships."-Cook: Third Voyage , bk. v., ch. iv. 2. Freedom from agitation or excitement; as, the stillne of the pa ions. father; we, wět, hëre, camel, her, thêre: *3. Habitual silence or quiet; taciturnity. "In peace, there's nothing so becomes a man, As modest stillne and humanity." pine, pit, sire, sir, Shakesp.: Henry V., iii. 1. marine; gō, põt, stillolite stipend *still-o-lite, s. [Lat. still a =a drop, and Greek lithos a stone.] Min.: A variety of siliceous sinter (geyserite). still-ý, a. & adv. [Eng. still, a.; -y.] *A. As adj .: Still, quiet. B. As adverb: IMG:content-0311.png:[blocks in formation] II. Technically : 1. Arch. & Engin.: One of a set of piles forming the back for the sheet-piling of a starling. 2. Pottery : A small piece of pottery placed between two pieces of biscuit ware in the sagger to prevent the adherence of the pieces. 3. Ornith.: The Stilt-plover (q. v.). stilt-plover, *stilt-bird, s. Ornith.: Him an top us can did us (or mel an opter us ), which owes its popular name to the great length of its legs, which are about twenty inches long. It breeds regularly in the marshes of the Rhone, and is common in the Spanish Peninsula, on the Lower Danube and the shores of the Black Sea, extending into Africa and Asia. The male is about thirteen inches long, greater part of the plumage white, back and wing deep black glo ed with green; in the female the back and wings are brownish-black. Collectively, the name is applied to two genera: Him an top us and Recurvirostra. stilt, v. t. [STILT, 8.] 1. Lit .: To set or raise on stilts. 2. Fig .: To raise, to excite, to stir up. stilt-ěd, a. [Eng.stilt; -ed.] 1. Lit .: Raised or set on stilts. 2. Fig .: Bombastic, pompous; stiff and inflated. (Said of language.) "It is a fault, no longer so common as it formerly was, with story-writers, to be stilted ." - London Daily Tele graph . IMG:content-0312.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-0313.png:[blocks in formation] 1. Bot. ( pl.): Stinging-hairs (q. v.). 2. Pharm.: A stimulant. sti-mỹ, v. t. [Etym. doubtful.] Golf: To place one's ball close to the hole, and stim-part, s . [Etym. doubtful.] The eighth exactly in a line between the hole and the adverpart of a Winchester bushel. ( Scotch .) IMG:content-0314.jpg:[blocks in formation] Burns : Auld Farmer to his Auld Mare .