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A highly stimulating volatile infammable oil, distilled from the leaves of an East Indian tree (Melaleuca cajuputi, etc.) It is greenish in color and has a camphoraceous odor and pungent taste.

The ancient Latin name of Scotland; -- still used in poetry.

To make calm; to render still or quet, as elements; as, to calm the winds. To calm the tempest raised by Eolus. Dryden.

Tranquil; peaceful; calm. [Poet.] "A still and calmy day" Spenser.

A colorless oil obtained from hemp dy distillation, and possessing its intoxicating properties.

An inflammable, volatile, oily, liquid hydrocarbon, obtained by the destructive distillation of caoutchouc.

o find fault or to cavil; eager to object; difficult to please. A captius and suspicious. Stillingfleet. I am sensible I have not disposed my materials to adbide the test of a captious controversy. Bwike.

colleges. Lamb. Caput mortuum (. Etym: [L., dead head.] (Old Chem.) The residuum after distillation or sublimation; hence, worthless residue.

wrought iron directly from the ore. It was formerly much used, esp. in Catalonia, and is still used in some parts of the United States and elsewhere.

A white waxy solid obtained from Chinese wax, and by the distillation of cerotin.

An oil obtained by distillation of peat, and containing various members of the pyridine series.

To squat on its belly and be still; -- a command given by a sportsman to a dog.

An alcoholic cordial, distilled from aromatic herbs; -- made at La Grande Chartreuse.

A standing still or idle (of mills, factories, etc.).

bition of the tripod which he received as a prize. Those of Lysicrates and Thrasyllus are still to be seen at Athens.

or Mohammedan lands. The Arian doctrine which then divided Christendom. Milton A wide and still widening Christendom. Coleridge.

ic acid (Chem.), a white, crystalline, deliquescent substance, C3H4(CO2H)2, obtained by distillation of citric acid. It is a compound of the ethylene series.

To make a rattling noise with. You clatter still your brazen kettle. Swift.

copal church service, and otherwise assists in it. [Eng.] Hook. And like unlettered clerk still cry "Amen". Shak.

ometimes been called the Literary Club, but which has always disclaimed that epithet, and still glories in the simple name of the Club. Macaulay.