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stillicide|ˈstɪlɪsaɪd|
Also 7 stillicid.
[Anglicized form of stillicidium.]
1. A falling of water, etc. in drops; a succession of drops. Now rare.
1626Bacon Sylva §24 Wee see it also in the Stillicides of water, which if ther be water enough to follow, will Drawe themselues into a small thredd, because they will not discontinue. a1651N. Culverwel Lt. Nat. etc. ii. vi. (1654) 161 Those fallings down of water, that thred and spin themselves into such slender stillicids. 1657Tomlinson Renou's Disp. 192 To Irrigation we may refer the Stillicide or Laver of medicated waters. 1898Hardy Wessex Poems 156 In the mated measured note Of..a lone cave's stillicide.
2. Civil and Scots Law. The dropping of rain-water from the eaves of a house upon another's land or roof; the right or the servitude relating to this.
1656Blount Glossogr., Stillicide, the dropping of the Eaves of an house. 1681Stair Inst. Law Scot. xvii. vii. 342 The next positive City-servitude is, of Stillicides or Sinks; Stillicide is the easing-drop which falleth off any house [etc.]. 1754Erskine Princ. Sc. Law (1809) 222 No proprietor can build, so as to throw the rain water falling from his own house immediately upon his neighbour's ground, without a special servitude, which is called of stillicide. |