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First published 2001 (DOST Vol. IX).
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Quotation dates: 1499-1513, 1599, 1690
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Still, v.2 [ME and e.m.E. stille(n (a1300), stylle (Lydgate), stil (1534), still (1610), stile (a1660), aphetic f. Distill v.] a. To fall in drops, trickle down. b. To distil, to produce by a process of distillation. Also fig. —a. a1500 Henr. Fab. 1684 (Bann.).
With heat and mosture stilland fra the skye 1513 Doug. viii iv 32.
Mony dolorus hedis, With vissage blaknyt, blude byrun and bla, The laithly ordur or filth stilland thar fra c1690 Archibald in Macfarlane's Geog. Coll. III 189.
The water stills down into the pit, wherewith they then fill their pans —b. 1506 Treasurer's Accounts III 202.
To the potingair of Sanctandrois to remane in Strivelin to still wateris, xxviij s. —fig. 1599 Burnett of Leys (App.) 331.
Fortitude is most power onto man A vertue techt and stillt in equitie
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