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A continual falling or succession of drops; rain water falling from the eaves. Bacon.

Falling in drops. [Obs.]

Having the form of a drop. Owen.

A stillion. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]

A stand, as for casks or vats in a brewery, or for pottery while drying.

The quality or state of being still; quietness; silence; calmness; inactivity. Painting, then, was the art demanded by the modern intellect upon its emergence from the stillness of the Middle Ages. J. A. Symonds.

A room for distilling.

A pipe wrench having an adjustable L-shaped jaw piece sliding in a sleeve that is pivoted to, and loosely embraces, the handle. Pressure on the handle increases the grip.

A standstill. [R.] Shak.

Still; quiet; calm. The stilly hour when storms are gone. Moore.

A black or greenish black mineral occurring in foliated flates, also in velvety bronze-colored incrustations. It is a hydrous silicate of iron and alumina.

mes prolonged upward so as to be steadied by the hand or arm. Ambition is but avarice on stilts, and masked. Landor.

See Stilt, n., 3.

Elevated as if on stilts; hence, pompous; bombastic; as, a stilted style; stilted declamation. Stilted arch (Arch.), an arch in which the springing line is some distance above the impost, the space between being occupied by a vertical member, molded or ornamented, as a continuation of the archivolt, intrados, etc.…

To raise upon stilts, or as upon stilts; to stilt.

essed cheese made from milk with cream added; -- so called from the village or parish of Stilton, England, where it was originally made. It is very rich in fat.

Unreasonably elevated; pompous; stilted; as, a stilty style.

Still as a stock, or fixed post; perfectly still. His whole work stands stock-still. Sterne.

As still as a stone. Shak.

Silly talk; babbling.