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

A marginal note on a letter or other paper; an annotation. Motley.

"The Bastille", formerly a castle or fortress in Paris, used as a prison, especially for political offenders; hence, a rhetorical name for a prison.

To make still.

Of or pertaining to Castile, in Spain.

To drop; to fall in drops; to trickle. Soft showers distilled, and suns grew warm in vain. Pope.

Capable of being distilled; especially, capable of being distilled without chemical change or decomposition; as, alcohol is distillable; olive oil is not distillable.

The product of distillation; as, the distillate from molasses.

ation of driving off gas or vapor from volatile liquids or solids, by heat in a retort or still, and the condensation of the products as far as possible by a cool receiver, alembic, or condenser; rectification; vaporization; condensation; as, the distillation of illuminating gas and coal, of alcohol from sour mash, or…

Belonging to, or used in, distilling; as, distillatory vessels. -- n.

One who distills; esp., one who extracts alcoholic liquors by distillation.

The building and works where distilling, esp. of alcoholic liquors, is carried on.

Distillation; the substance obtained by distillation. [Obs.] Shak.

To distill, as spirit from molasses or some saccharine preparation.

One who finestills.

se slowly; to cause to be imbibed. That starlight dews All silently their tears of love instill. Byron. How hast thou instilled Thy malice into thousands. Milton.

The of instilling; also, that which is instilled. Johnson.

An instiller. [R.]

Belonging to instillation. [R.]

One who instills. Skelton.