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A pearly crystalline substance obtained by the decomposition of phillyrin.

A genus of evergreen plants growing along the shores of the Mediterranean, and breading a fruit resembling that of the olive.

A glucoside extracted from Phillyrea as a bitter white crystalline substance. It is sometimes used as a febrifuge.

A high, stiff collar for the neck; also, a hem or band about the skirt of a garment, -- worn by men in the 17th century.

xceedingly hard, and hence was formerly used for armor. [Obs.] "His jambeux were of quyrboilly." Chaucer.

In an irresolute, undecided, or hesitating manner. I am somewhat dainty in making a resolution, because when I make it, I keep it; I don't stand shill-I-shall-I then; if I say 't, I'll do 't. Congreve.

ith trifles. She lost not one of her forty-five minutes in picking and choosing, - - no shilly-shally in Kate. De Quincey.

Somewhat shrill. [Poetic] Sir W. Scott. Some kept up a shrilly mellow sound. Keats.

Harmless; innocent; inoffensive. [Obs.] "This silly, innocent Custance." Chaucer. The silly virgin strove him to withstand. Spenser. A silly, innocent hare murdered of a dog. Robynson (More's Utopia).

A caul. See Caul, n., 3. [Obs. or Prov. Eng. & Scot.]

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

or when anything said was reject as trifling or impertinent. [Written also tille-vally, tilly-fally, tille-fally, and otherwise.] Shak.

The sanderling; -- so called from its cry. [Prov. Eng.]

In a tranquil manner; calmly.

ing wool by the action of a revolving cylinder covered with long iron spikes or teeth; a willy or willying machine; -- called also twilly devil, and devil. See Devil, n., 6, and Willy. Tomlinson.

See Unsely. [Obs.]

The hypothetical radical characteristic of vanillic alcohol.

A whirlwind, or whirlwind squall, encountered in the Straits of Magellan. W. C. Russell.

A large wicker basket. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

See Will I, nill I, etc., under 3d Will.