Still
Webster's Dictionary [1]
(1): ( adv.) Constant; continual.
(2): ( adv.) Not effervescing; not sparkling; as, still wines.
(3): ( n.) Freedom from noise; calm; silence; as, the still of midnight.
(4): ( v. i.) To drop, or flow in drops; to distill.
(5): ( v. t.) To expel spirit from by heat, or to evaporate and condense in a refrigeratory; to distill.
(6): ( v.) A house where liquors are distilled; a distillery.
(7): ( v. t.) To cause to fall by drops.
(8): ( adv.) Motionless; at rest; quiet; as, to stand still; to lie or sit still.
(9): ( adv.) Uttering no sound; silent; as, the audience is still; the animals are still.
(10): ( adv.) Not disturbed by noise or agitation; quiet; calm; as, a still evening; a still atmosphere.
(11): ( adv.) Comparatively quiet or silent; soft; gentle; low.
(12): ( a.) To stop, as noise; to silence.
(13): ( a.) In an increasing or additional degree; even more; - much used with comparatives.
(14): ( a.) In continuation by successive or repeated acts; always; ever; constantly; uniformly.
(15): ( n.) A steep hill or ascent.
(16): ( a.) To this time; until and during the time now present; now no less than before; yet.
(17): ( a.) In the future as now and before.
(18): ( a.) To appease; to calm; to quiet, as tumult, agitation, or excitement; as, to still the passions.
(19): ( a.) To stop, as motion or agitation; to cause to become quiet, or comparatively quiet; to check the agitation of; as, to still the raging sea.
(20): ( a.) Notwithstanding what has been said or done; in spite of what has occured; nevertheless; - sometimes used as a conjunction. See Synonym of But.
(21): ( a.) After that; after what is stated.
(22): ( v.) A vessel, boiler, or copper used in the distillation of liquids; specifically, one used for the distillation of alcoholic liquors; a retort. The name is sometimes applied to the whole apparatus used in in vaporization and condensation.
King James Dictionary [2]
Still, G to put, set, place, Gr., to send, and with style, stool, stall.
1. To stop, as motion or agitation to check or restrain to make quiet as, to still the raging sea. 2. T stop, as noise to silence.
With his name the mothers still their babes.
3. To appease to calm to quiet as tumult, agitation or excitement as, to still the passions.
Still a.
1. Silent uttering no sound applicable to animals or to things. The company or the man is still the air is still the sea is still. 2. Quiet calm not disturbed by noise as a still evening. 3. Motionless as, to stand still to lie or sit still. 4. Quiet calm not agitated as a still atmosphere.
STILL, n. Calm silence freedom from noise as the still of midnight. A poetic word.
STILL, adv.
1. To this time till now.
It hath been anciently reported, and is still received. Still here denotes this time set or fixed.
2. Nevertheless notwithstanding.
The desire of fame betrays an ambitious man into indecencies that lessen his reputation he is still afraid lest any of his actions should be thrown away in private.
Still here signifies set, given, and refers to the whole of the first clause of the sentence. The desire of fame betrays an ambitious man into indecencies that lessen his reputation that fact being given or set, or notwithstanding, he is afraid, &c.
3. It precedes or accompanies words denoting increase of degree.
The moral perfections of the Deity, the more attentively we consider them, the more perfectly still shall we know them.
This is not correct.
4. Always ever continually.
Trade begets trade, and people go much where many people have already gone so men run still to a crowd in the streets, though only to see.
The fewer still you name, you wound the more.
5. After that after what is stated.
In the primitive church, such as by fear were compelled to sacrifice to strange gods, after repented, and kept still the office of preaching the gospel.
6. In continuation.
And, like the watchful minutes to the hour, still and anon cheerd up the heavy time.
STILL, n. L., to drop. See Distill. A vessel, boiler or copper used in the distillation of liquors as vapor ascending of the still. The word is used in a more general sense for the vessel and apparatus. A still house is also called a still.
Still, L To expel spirit from liquor by heat and condense it in a refrigeratory to distill. See Distill.
STILL, To drop. Not in use. See Distill.
Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words [3]
"yet, as yet, still," is translated "still" in the RV in 1—Corinthians 12:31; 2—Corinthians 1:10; Galatians 1:10; 5:11; AV and RV in Revelation 22:11 (four times), where the word indicates the permanent character, condition and destiny of the unrighteous and the filthy, the righteous and the holy (for the verbs see the RV); in John 11:30 , the best mss. have the word; so RV (AV omits).
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia [4]
stil : "To be still" is "to keep silence" ( Psalm 4:4 , etc.) and so "to be quiet" ( Psalm 107:29 , etc.) or "inactive" in any way ( Judges 18:9; 1 Kings 22:3; Zechariah 1:11 , etc.). So "be still" in Psalm 46:10 means "desist from your war" (compare the Revised Version margin "let be"). The "still small voice" of 1 Kings 19:12 (the Revised Version margin "sound of gentle stillness") is due to taking the Hebrew demāmāh in its literal force of "silent," but the word here means "whisper" - "a whispering, little voice." This familiar passage, however, has made "still voice" good English, and the combination is used in Job 4:16 by the Revised Version margin. In Psalm 23:2 the translation "still waters" takes "waters of rest" (so literally for מנוּחה , menūḥāh ; compare the Revised Version margin) to mean "waters with little motion." But the meaning is either "wells by which the flocks rest" or "wells that give refreshing water." As an adverb "still" is perhaps more emphatic than in modern English; compare "power to keep still the kingdom," 2 Chronicles 22:9 the King James Version (the Revised Version (British and American) "to hold the kingdom").
