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Free from sound or noise; absolutely still; perfectly quiet. How silent is this town! Shak.

One appointed to keep silence and order in court; also, one sworn not to divulge secre

Habitually silent; taciturn; reticent. [R.]

In a silent manner.

State of being silent; silence.

See Wanderoo.

A kind of linen cloth, originally made in Silesia, a province of Prussia.

Of or pertaining to Silesia. -- n.

Silica, SiO2 as found in nature, constituting quarz, and most sands and sandstones. See Silica, and Silicic.

s, to something else; a similitude; a poetical or imaginative comparison. A good swift simile, but something currish. Shak.

One, not being a Slav, who is interested in the development and prosperity of that race.

ent, pleasure, moderate joy, or love and kindness, by the features of the face; to laugh silently. He doth nothing but frown . . . He hears merry tales and smiles not. Shak. She led to see the doughty hero slain. Pope. When last I saw thy young blue eyes, they smiled. Byron.

Not having a smile.

One who smiles. Tennyson.

A little smile. [R.] Those happy smilets That played on her ripe lip. Shak.

Once; for a time. Though, under color of shepherds, somewhile There crept in wolves, full of fraund and guile. Spenser.

Fit to be drunk or sipped. [Obs.]

The act or practice of drawing lots; divination by drawing lots. A woman infamous for sortileges and witcheries. Sir W. Scott.

Pertaining to sortilege.

Sortilege. [R.] De Quincey.