The Collaborative International Dictionary
Stock-still \Stock"-still`\, a. [CF. G. stock-still.] Still as a stock, or fixed post; perfectly still.
His whole work stands stock-still.
--Sterne.
Wiktionary
a. absolutely motionless, perfectly still.
WordNet
adj. absolutely still; "frozen with horror"; "they stood rooted in astonishment" [syn: frozen(p), rooted(p)]
adv. without moving or making a sound; "he sat still as a statue"; "time stood still"; "they waited stock-still outside the door"; "he couldn't hold still any longer" [syn: still]
Usage examples of "stock-still".
Argot spoke a word of command and the horse froze in place, standing stock-still in the yard, with the boy on his back, while Argot went over to speak to the soldier.
Sister Veronica, pausing and looking back at Capella, who was standing stock-still as the others followed Stewart.
Then the cow was standing, stock-still, blind-still, too stupid to graze, too balkish to collapse, less anlinate than a stone cow.
If the benighted traveller spies those luminous, terrible sequins stitched suddenly on the black thickets, then he knows he must run, if fear has not struck him stock-still.
He pointed before him as he spoke, and Theos stood for a moment stock-still and overcome with astonishment, at the size and splendor of the palace whose gates they were just approaching.
Szehpee, Kahndoot wiped the spittle from her skin, then lowered the cheekpieces and stood stock-still while they were buckled tightly under her square chin.
As the two went back homeward across the level space of sand Tom Chist suddenly stopped stock-still and stood looking about him.
Kholenko remained undefeated and stock-still, and Kalinin was plunging ahead.
Salasso was standing stock-still, nothing moving except the nictitating membranes flicking across his eyes.
He stood stock-still, the skirls and wailings on his pipes filling the air between them.
And he had stood between them at the bottom of the stairs, stock-still, watching the other children who were whooping and running and coloring and cutting colored paper with bluntnosed scissors, so many of them, and Charlie had never looked so vulnerable as he did in that instant, just watching the other children.
She stood stock-still, as if paralyzed by his hands clasping her waist.
Alfred whirled about, standing stock-still, and saw a dogmouth open in a wide grin, tongue lolling bounding down the corridor, heading straight for him.
They were handy, all right, scampering about the white-scrubbed deck in their tunics and short breeches, running out the pieces and ramming home cold shot to the squeal of the Arab bosun's pipe, precise as guardsmen, and afterwards standing stock-still by their guns, like so many yellow idols.
He turned and was startled to see Sally Colton not far away, standing stock-still and looking at him.