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An organic base, C9H6.N.CH3, metameric with quinaldine, and obtained by the distillation of cinchonine.

To make lethargic. All bitters are poison, and act by stilling, and depressing, and lethargizing the irritability. Coleridge.

tered" Shak. The unlettered barbarians willingly accepted the aid of the lettered clergy, still chiefly of Roman birth, to reduce to writing the institutes of their forefathers. Milman.

b line is perpendicular; a line or surface which is everywhere parallel to the surface of still water; -- this is the true level, and is a curve or surface in which all points are equally distant from the center of the earth, or rather would be so if the earth were an exact sphere.

To be still or quiet, like one lying down to rest. The wind is loud and will not lie. Shak.

To recline; to lie still. [Obs. or Scot.] Chaucer. Spenser.

oil (Chem.), the oily product, lighter than water, forming the chief part of the first distillate of coal tar, and consisting largely of benzene and toluene. -- Light sails (Naut.), all the sails above the topsails, with, also, the studding sails and flying jib. Dana. -- Light sleeper, one easily wakened. -- Light…

ing, an acid of the formic acid series, found in the tar, wax, or paraffine obtained by distilling certain kinds of wood, as the beech.

That which closely resembles; a portrait. [How he looked] the likenesses of him which still remain enable us to imagine. Macaulay.

An alembic; a still. [Obs.] Spenser. Shak.

Specifically, alcoholic or spirituous fluid, either distilled or fermented, as brandy, wine, whisky, beer, etc.

A lithontriptic remedy or agent, as distilled water.

gging attorney or a litigious client." Macaulay. Soldiers find wars, and lawyers find out still Litigious men, who guarrels move. Donne.

To produce a litter. A desert . . . where the she-wolf still littered. Macaulay.

ny characteristic dress or outward appearance. " April's livery." Sir P. Sidney. Now came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad. Milton.

A person skilled in logic. Bacon. Each fierce logician still expelling Locke. Pope.

defect, misfortune, harm, etc., which ensues from losing. Though thou repent, yet I have still the loss. Shak

, etc., of; as, to lower the temperature of anything; to lower one's vitality; to lower distilled liquors.

quired. Clarendon. Not withstanding all the subtle bait With which those Amazons his love still craved, To his one love his loyalty he saved. Spenser.

A spirituous liquor or drink distilled from potatoes; -- used in the Barbadoes.