Word Meanings - CALMY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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

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• STILLY
  Still; quiet; calm. The stilly hour when storms are gone. Moore.
• STILLBIRTH
  The birth of a dead fetus.
• TRANQUIL
  Quiet; calm; undisturbed; peaceful; not agitated; as, the atmosphere is tranquil; the condition of the country is tranquil. A style clear, tranquil, easy to follow. De Quincey.
• STILLSTAND
  A standstill. Shak.
• STILLING
  A stillion.
• STILLAGE
  A low stool to keep the goods from touching the floor. Knight.
• TRANQUILNESS
  Quality or state of being tranquil.
• STILLION
  A stand, as for casks or vats in a brewery, or for pottery while drying.
• TRANQUILIZE; TRANQUILLIZE
  To render tranquil; to allay when agitated; to compose; to make calm and peaceful; as, to tranquilize a state disturbed by factions or civil commotions; to tranquilize the mind. Syn. -- To quiet; compose; still; soothe; appease; calm; pacify. (more
• TRANQUILLY
  In a tranquil manner; calmly.
• STILLROOM
  1. A room for distilling. 2. An apartment in a house where liquors, preserves, and the like, are kept. Floors are rubbed bright, . . . stillroom and kitchen cleared for action. Dickens.
• CALMY
  Tranquil; peaceful; calm. "A still and calmy day" Spenser.
• STILL-HUNT
  A hunting for game in a quiet and cautious manner, or under cover; stalking; hence, colloquially, the pursuit of any object quietly and cautiously. -- Still"-hunt`er, n. -- Still"-hunt`ing, n.
• STILLATORY
  1. An alembic; a vessel for distillation. Bacon. 2. A laboratory; a place or room in which distillation is performed. Dr. H. More. Sir H. Wotton.
• STILL-CLOSING
  Ever closing. "Still-clothing waters." Shak.
• TRANQUILLITY
  The quality or state of being tranquil; calmness; composure.
• STILLATITIOUS
  Falling in drops; drawn by a still.
• STILL-BURN
  To burn in the process of distillation; as, to still-burn brandy.
• TRANQUILIZER; TRANQUILLIZER
  One who, or that which, tranquilizes.
• TRANQUILIZATION; TRANQUILLIZATION
  The act of tranquilizing, or the state of being tranquilized.
• INSTILL
  To drop in; to pour in drop by drop; hence, to impart gradually; to infuse 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. Syn. -- To
• PISTILLIFEROUS
  Pistillate.
• DISTILLABLE
  Capable of being distilled; especially, capable of being distilled without chemical change or decomposition; as, alcohol is distillable; olive oil is not distillable.
• DISTILLATION
  The separation of the volatile parts of a substance from the more fixed; specifically, the operation 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
• FINESTILLER
  One who finestills.
• INSTILLATOR
  An instiller.
• DISPENSER
  One who, or that which, dispenses; a distributer; as, a dispenser of favors.
• PISTILLATION
  The act of pounding or breaking in a mortar; pestillation. Sir T. Browne.
• STONE-STILL
  As still as a stone. Shak.
• DISTILLATORY
  Belonging to, or used in, distilling; as, distillatory vessels. -- n.
• INSTILLER
  One who instills. Skelton.
• POSTILLATOR
  One who postillates; one who expounds the Scriptures verse by verse.