Word Meanings - FIRMLESS - Book Publishers vocabulary database
1. Detached from substance. Does passion still the firmless mind control Pope. 2. Infirm; unstable. "Firmless sands." Sylvester.
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- STILLY
Still; quiet; calm. The stilly hour when storms are gone. Moore. - STILLBIRTH
The birth of a dead fetus. - CONTROLLABLENESS
Capability of being controlled. - PASSIONAL
Of or pertaining to passion or the passions; exciting, influenced by, or ministering to, the passions. -- n. - STILLSTAND
A standstill. Shak. - STILLING
A stillion. - CONTROLLABILITY
Capability of being controlled; controllableness. - STILLAGE
A low stool to keep the goods from touching the floor. Knight. - FIRMLESS
1. Detached from substance. Does passion still the firmless mind control Pope. 2. Infirm; unstable. "Firmless sands." Sylvester. - STILLION
A stand, as for casks or vats in a brewery, or for pottery while drying. - 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. - 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. - SANDSTONE
A rock made of sand more or less firmly united. Common or siliceous sandstone consists mainly of quartz sand. Note: Different names are aplied to the various kinds of sandstone according to their composition; as, granitic, argillaceous, micaceous, - DETACHED
Separate; unconnected, or imperfectly connected; as, detached parcels. "Extensive and detached empire." Burke. Detached escapement. See Escapement. - PASSIONLESS
Void of passion; without anger or emotion; not easily excited; calm. "Self-contained and passionless." Tennyson. - 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. - SUBSTANCE
See 2 (more info) 1. That which underlies all outward manifestations; substratum; the permanent subject or cause of phenomena, whether material or spiritual; that in which properties inhere; that which is real, - STILLATITIOUS
Falling in drops; drawn by a still. - INFIRMNESS
Infirmity; feebleness. Boyle. - COMPASSIONATELY
In a compassionate manner; mercifully. Clarendon. - 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. - OUTPASSION
To exceed in passion. - INCOMPASSIONATE
Not compassionate; void of pity or of tenderness; remorseless. -- In`com*pas"sion*ate*ly, adv. -- In`com*pas"sion*ate*ness, n. - INSTILLATOR
An instiller. - PISTILLATION
The act of pounding or breaking in a mortar; pestillation. Sir T. Browne. - SCHWANN'S WHITE SUBSTANCE
The substance of the medullary sheath. - COMPOUND CONTROL
A system of control in which a separate manipulation, as of a rudder, may be effected by either of two movements, in different directions, of a single lever, etc. - IMPASSIONABLE
Excitable; susceptible of strong emotion.