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give thanks for, benefits; as, a grateful heart. A grateful mind By owing, owes not, but still pays. Milton.

-natured complaints in a low voice and a surly manner. L'Avare, not using half his store, Still grumbles that he has no more. Prior.

7H8O2, with a peculiar odor. It is the methyl ether of pyrocatechin, and is obtained by distilling guaiacum from wood-tar creosote, and in other ways. It has been used in treating pulmonary tuberculosis.

or attack; to protect by attendance; toaccompany for protection; to vare for. For Heaven still guards the right. Shak.

mbling the phenols, found as a constituent of woodtar creosote, aud produced by the dry distillation of guaiac resin.

having some hermaphrodite or perfect flowers on an individual plant which bears mostly pistillate flowers.

y; a turn or revolution; a circuit. Quick and more quick he spins in giddy gyres. Dryden. Still expanding and ascending gyres. Mrs. Browning.

p; to cease progress; to stop for a longer or shorter period; to come to a stop; to stand still.

d eighty-five cities. Its remnants, Lübeck, Hamburg, and Bremen, are free cities, and are still frequently called Hanse towns.

of hartshorn (Chem.), an impure solid carbonate of ammonia, obtained by the destructive distillation of hartshorn, or any kind of bone; volatile salts. Brande & C.-- Spirits of hartshorn (Chem.), a solution of ammonia in water; -- so called because formerly obtained from hartshorn shavings by destructive distillation.…

mixture of old matter; a second preparation or exhibition. I can not bear elections, and still less the hash of them over again in a first session. Walpole.

quently; to visit pertinaciously or intrusively; to intrude upon. You wrong me, sir, thus still to haunt my house. Shak. Those cares that haunt the court and town. Swift.

Of or pertaining to an extensive forest in Germany, of which there are still portions in Swabia and the Hartz mountains.

A leader in heresy; the chief of a sect of heretics. Bp. Stillingfleet.

The garden producing the golden apples. It not love a Hercules, Still climbing trees in the Hesperides Shak.

A liquid hydrocarbon, C6H8, of the valylene series, obtained from distillation products of certain fats and gums.

C6H12, of the ethylene series, produced artificially, and found as a natural product of distillation of certain coals; also, any one several isomers of hexylene proper. Called also hexene.

certain ancient inscriptions showing the primitive type of the oldest form of the Arabic, still spoken in Southern Arabia. Brande & C.

oath, an oath said to have been dictated by Hippocrates to his disciples. Such an oath is still administered to candidates for graduation in medicine.

Stop! stand still! hold! -- a word now used by teamsters, but formerly to order the cessation of anything. [Written also whoa, and, formerly, hoo.] The duke . . . pulled out his sword and cried "Hoo!" Chaucer. An herald on a scaffold made an hoo. Chaucer.