(stil) adjective
1. Being without movement; motionless.
2. Free from disturbance or agitation; peaceful; tranquil.
3. Making no sound; silent.
4. Low in sound; hushed.
5. Subdued; soft.
6. Dead; inanimate.
7. Having no effervescence: opposed to sparkling: said of wines.
8. Phot. Showing no movement. See synonyms under CALM, PACIFIC, SEDATE.
—noun
1. Absence of sound or noise; stillness; calm.
2. A still–life picture.
3. Phot. A still photograph; especially, one taken with a still camera on a motion–picture set, for advertising, promotion, etc.
4. A still alarm.
—adverb
1. Now as previously; up to this or that time; yet: He is still here.
2. After or in spite of something; all the same; nevertheless.
3. In increasing degree; even more; even yet: still more.
4. Poetic & Dial. Always; constantly. See synonyms under BUT¹, NOTWITHSTANDING, YET.
—conj. Nevertheless.
—v.t.
1. To cause to be still or calm.
2. To silence or hush.
3. To quiet or allay, as fears.
—v.i.
4. To become still. See synonyms under ALLAY, REPRESS, TRANQUILIZE. [OE stille]
—still′ness noun

(stil) noun
1. An apparatus in which a substance is vaporized by heat, and the vapor then liquefied in a condenser and collected: used especially for distilling liquors.
2. A distillery: also still house.
—v.t. & v.i. To distil. [<L stillare drip <stilla a drop]
STILL

(stil), Andrew Taylor,
1828–1917, U. S. physician; founder of osteopathy.