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▪ I. stilling, n.1|ˈstɪlɪŋ|
Also 7 steeling(e, stillinge, stylling, 8 stillen. See also stillion.
[Perh. corruptly a. Du. stelling stand, scaffold, f. stellen to place. Cf. stillage.]
A stand for a cask, a gantry.
1604Ball. Coll. Oxf. Acc. (MS.), Item, to Golidge [a carpenter] for makinge stillings for beare, and other worke, vis id. 1665in Halliwell Acc. Collect. Bills etc. (1852) 17 In the strong Beere Seller. A stylling. 1743Lond. & Country Brewer iii. (ed. 2) 235 They roll and tumble the Barrel backwards and forwards up and down on a Stilling. 1827Sir J. Barrington Pers. Sk. II. 49 Very like a beer barrel on its stilling. 1875Knight Dict. Mech., Stilling, a stand for casks. A stillion.
▪ II. stilling, n.2 Mining.|ˈstɪlɪŋ|
[Of obscure origin.]
(See quots.)
1883Gresley Gloss. Coal-mining 240 Stilling, the walling of a shaft within the tubbing above the stone head. 1899Baring-Gould Bk. West II. Cornw. v. 63 [Tin mining] The walling on each side of a tye or adit is called stilling.
▪ III. stilling, vbl. n.1|ˈstɪlɪŋ|
[f. still v.1 + -ing1.]
The action of making still; quietening; calming.
1530Palsgr. 276/1 Styllyng or apeysing, apeisement. 1622Hakewill David's Vow vii. 258 A deceit..which Nurses vse for the stilling of their Children. c1698Locke Cond. Understand. §xlv, Thus some trivial sentence, or a scrap of poetry, will sometimes get into men's heads, and make such a chiming there, that there is no stilling of it. 1792F. Burney Lett. 20 Dec., The pretended friends of the people..wait but the stilling of the present ferment of royalty to come forth. 1846Trench Mirac. xix. 310 They..might pluck the ripe ears for the stilling of their present hunger. 1863M. L. Whately Ragged Life in Egypt 200 It is beautiful when the sun draws in his fiery shafts to watch the stilling of the air.
▪ IV. stilling, vbl. n.2|ˈstɪlɪŋ|
Also 6 steeling, steylling, stylling, -yng.
[f. still v.2 + -ing1.]
†1. The action of the verb still2; distillation.
1477Norton Ordin. Alch. v. in Ashm. (1652) 79 Liquor is in manie manners found..Some with stilling, as Waters be made. 1573–80Tusser Husb. (1878) 115 The knowledge of stilling is one pretie feat. 1683Tryon Way to Health 554, I appeal to your selves, if your Wort would not have turned sower,..and of no use or virtue, except for Stilling.
attrib.1545in R. H. Lathbury Denham, Bucks (1904) 339 All the shelfes and formes that are in the stillinge house. 1573in Rep. Middleton MSS. (Hist. MSS. Comm. 1911) 438 To the cater..for the exchaunge of a steeling pott, iiij s. 1596in Archæologia LXIV. 375 For 1 dor in ye steylling house. 1600Surflet Country Farm iii. lxiv. 578 The stilling vessels. 1840Liebig's Org. Chem. Relat. Agric. 294 The wine in the stilling-casks.
b. Ireland. Illicit distillation of spirits.
1896Blackw. Mag. Oct. 470/1 The Roman Catholic Bishop of Raphoe..has done more to stamp out ‘stilling’ than the R.I.C. could accomplish in a generation. 1912Ibid. Dec. 787/2 Many parts of the Blue Ridge have long been notorious for the stilling which was carried on there, mostly on the illicit plan.
†2. Dropping or trickling. Obs.
1530Palsgr. 276/1 Styllyng or droppyng of lycour, distillation. 1538Elyot Dict., Catarrhus, a rewme or styllynge downe of water or fleme from the heed. 1576Baker Gesner's Jewell of Health 4 The yelowe seedes within the Rose..boyled in Wyne and drunke, doth staye..the styllings downe to the Gummes.
▪ V. stilling, ppl. a.1|ˈstɪlɪŋ|
[f. still v.1 + -ing2.]
That makes still; quietening; calming.
1635Sibbes Serm. John xiv. 1 (1636) 35 Thus faith becomes a quieting and a stilling grace. 1844Kinglake Eothen ii. (1847) 18 More stilling than very silence. 1873R. Broughton Nancy III. 126 There is something so stilling in the far placidity of the high stars. 1902Academy 22 Mar. 324/1 The touch like a stilling finger, The whisper, the sigh.
▪ VI. † ˈstilling, ppl. a.2 Obs.
[f. still v.2 + -ing2.]
Trickling or falling in drops; distilling.
a1542Wyatt Poems, ‘Process of time’ 6 And yet an hert that sems so tender receveth no dropp of the stilling teres that [etc.]. 1565Golding Ovid's Met. i. (1593) 9 And on his feathers and his breast a stilling dew did sticke. |