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2. Verb. (third-person singular of still) ¹

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Definition of Stills

1. still [v] - See also: still

Lexicographical Neighbors of Stills

Literary usage of Stills

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Report of the Joint Select Committee Appointed to Inquire Into the Condition by Luke Potter Poland, John Scott (1872)
"They only joined it for fear they would be whipped or molested in some way ; and some of them only joined it to get to run their stills, and make money that ..."

2. Massachusetts Reports: Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Judicial by Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (1862)
"HANNAH stills vs. PHINEAS HARMON. An executor is not liable by the trustee process, as the trustee of the heir of a deceased legatee, for the amount of a ..."

3. The New International Encyclopædia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1903)
"(5) stills with similar apparatus for continuous working. ... Examples of the fifth class of stills, those with a continuous ..."

4. Petroleum: A Treatise on the Geographical Distribution and Geological by Boverton Redwood, George Thomas Holloway (1896)
"From the front of each of the stills, Bl, B2, the oil runs into one of the connected ... The coking stills, in which the distillation is carried to dryness, ..."

5. Petroleum: A Treatise on the Geographical Distribution and Geological by Boverton Redwood (1896)
"From the front of each of the stills, Bl, B2, the oil runs into one of the connected ... The coking stills, in which the distillation is carried to dryness, ..."

6. Outlines of Industrial Chemistry: A Text-book for Students by Frank Hall Thorp, Charles D. Demond (1905)
"Glass stills placed on sand baths and heated by a fire are used somewhat, ... Sometimes platinum stills having a spiral partition in the pan are used; ..."

7. The American Petroleum Industry by Raymond Foss Bacon, William Allen Hamor (1916)
"If, for example, it is desired to clean out stills Nos. 6 and 7, the cocks in the two short connections 19 between stills 5 and 6 and 7 and 8, respectively, ..."

8. The American Petroleum Industry by Raymond Foss Bacon, William Allen Hamor (1916)
"If, for example, it is desired to clean out stills Nos. 6 and 7, the cocks in the two short connections 19 between stills 5 and 6 and 7 and 8, respectively, ..."

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