Crossword clues for stiller
stiller
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Still \Still\, a. [Compar. Stiller; superl. Stillest.] [OE. stille, AS. stille; akin to D. stil, OS. & OHG. stilli, G. still, Dan. stille, Sw. stilla, and to E. stall; from the idea of coming to a stand, or halt. Cf. Still, adv.]
Motionless; at rest; quiet; as, to stand still; to lie or sit still. ``Still as any stone.''
--Chaucer.-
Uttering no sound; silent; as, the audience is still; the animals are still.
The sea that roared at thy command, At thy command was still.
--Addison. Not disturbed by noise or agitation; quiet; calm; as, a still evening; a still atmosphere. ``When all the woods are still.''
--Milton.Comparatively quiet or silent; soft; gentle; low. ``A still small voice.''
--1 Kings xix. 12.-
Constant; continual. [Obs.]
By still practice learn to know thy meaning.
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Not effervescing; not sparkling; as, still wines. Still life. (Fine Arts)
Inanimate objects.
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(Painting) The class or style of painting which represents inanimate objects, as fruit, flowers, dead game, etc.
Syn: Quiet; calm; noiseless; serene; motionless; inert; stagnant.
Stiller \Still"er\, n. One who stills, or quiets.
Wiktionary
a. (en-comparative of: still) n. One who stills, or quiets.
Wikipedia
Stiller can refer to:
Usage examples of "stiller".
This Order of Filial Obligation is to inform you that your family status has been reviewed, and it has been determined the debt formerly assigned to Cassandra Stiller is now the rightful debt in whole of Marian S.
Von Stiller reminded himself that he had always dreamed of a great diplomatic mission.
Von Stiller acknowledged with a sharp bow of his head and a click of his heels.
By the third page, Von Stiller began to worry that he would burst a blood vessel.
Jack avoided the main route and raced down empty country lanes instead, whipping through the woods, checking the rearview mirror and talking to someone named Steven Stiller on the cell phone.
Shirley Stiller, and here she was brazenly claiming to be Lorene Spritzer.
The cameo face had never been stiller, more concentrated, more commanding.
When I thought of that I sat stiller than ever, hardly daring to turn over the pages of Apuleius, which I had taken from my knapsack to beguile the time, and, I confess, to give my eyes some other occupation than the dangerous one of gazing upon her face, dangerous in more ways than one, but particularly dangerous at the moment, because, as everybody knows, a steady gaze on a sleeping face is apt to awake the sleeper.
She turned her mind inward, slipped from the calm depths of the Green to the stiller, deeper, more silent Gray, and quickly wove her death spell around him, tying it to the rhythms of the bed, to the quickened heartbeat and raspy breathing.
The cold, pounding wrath of stormy seawater was in Its voiceless communication, and the dark purple danger of the stiller depths, the outrage of an ancient surging elemental force now prostituted by men.
When he was gone, and she could do as she liked, she sat stiller than ever, knowing by long experience that to indulge oneself in private only made it more difficult not to indulge oneself in public.
Promontory after league-long promontory of a stiller Mediterranean in the sky is called out of mist and grey by the same finger.
The island rocked steadily along through the alternations of sun and moon under an empty sky, the air about them still and hot, hotter and stiller the farther south they went.