(noun: Falkland Islander): Military slang, short for still a Benny, since the military had been instructed not to refer to the islanders by the derogatory term Benny (which see).
2007 January 3, Gerry Geronimo, “Unwanted weed starts to sprout from a wayward ponencia”, in Manila Standard[1], archived from the original on 19 July 2011:
To follow the still President’s marching orders, all that Secretary Ronnie Puno has to do is to follow the road map laid out by Justice Azcuna in his “separate” opinion.
[…] A lifelong tract of time reveal’d; The fruitful hours of still increase; Days order’d in a wealthy peace, And those five years its richest field.
They stood still until the guard was out of sight.
(aspect) Up to a time, as in the preceding time.
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Is it still raining? It was still raining five minutes ago.
We’ve seen most of the sights, but we are still visiting the museum.
I’m still not wise enough to answer that.
1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “(please specify the page, or |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries.[…], London: […]William Rawley[…]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee[…], →OCLC:
It hath been anciently reported, and is still received.
Edward Churchill still attended to his work in a hopeless mechanical manner like a sleep-walker who walks safely on a well-known round. But his Roman collar galled him, his cossack stifled him, his biretta was as uncomfortable as a merry-andrew's cap and bells.
1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, Chicago, Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History, →ISBN, page vii:
Hepaticology, outside the temperate parts of the Northern Hemisphere, still lies deep in the shadow cast by that ultimate "closet taxonomist," Franz Stephani—a ghost whose shadow falls over us all.
2013 June 1, “A better waterworks”, in The Economist[2], volume 407, number 8838, page 5 (Technology Quarterly):
An artificial kidney these days still means a refrigerator-sized dialysis machine. Such devices mimic the way real kidneys cleanse blood and eject impurities and surplus water as urine.
(degree) To an even greater degree. Used to modify comparative adjectives or adverbs.quotations ▼
Tom is tall; Dick is taller; Harry is still taller / Harry is taller still.
Lechery, lechery, still wars and lechery; nothing else holds fashion.
1661, Robert Boyle, “[Two Essays, Concerning the Unsuccessfulness of Experiments, Containing Divers Admonitions and Observations (Chiefly Chymical) Touching that Subject.] The Second Essay, of Un-succeeding Experiments.”, in Certain Physiological Essays and Other Tracts;[…], 2nd edition, London: […]Henry Herringman[…], published 1669, →OCLC, page 78:
[W]hereas many Chymiſts vvould be vaſtly rich, if they could ſtill do in great Quantities vvhat they have ſometimes done in little ones, many have undone themſelves by obſtinately attempting to make even real Experiments more gainful.
The desire of fame betrays an ambitious man into indecencies that lessen his reputation; he is still afraid lest any of his actions should be thrown away in private.
Some poems, echoing the purpose of early poetic treatises on scientific principles, attempt to elucidate the mathematical concepts that underlie prime numbers. Others play with primes’ cultural associations. Still others derive their structure from mathematical patterns involving primes.
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1958 February, David Gunston, “Railways on the Screen”, in Railway Magazine, page 87:
One of his best stories was "Barney Oldfield's Race for a Life" (1914), of which there survives only an amusing still, showing poor Mabel Normand chained to the rails by two toughs, the moustached villain threatening her with a sledge-hammer, and an awful sense of that inexorably approaching express!
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building where liquor is distilled — see distillery
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1695, John Woodward, An essay toward a natural history of the earth and terrestrial bodies, especially minerals, page 139:
They likewise believed that he, having a full Sway and Command over the Water, had Power to still and compose it, as well as to move and disturb it […]
1557 February 13 (Gregorian calendar), Thomas Tusser, A Hundreth Good Pointes of Husbandrie, London: […]Richard Tottel, →OCLC; republished London: […] Robert Triphook,[…], and William Sancho,[…], 1810, →OCLC:
The knowledge of stilling is one pretty feat, The waters be wholesome, the charges not great
Boll, Piter Kehoma (2021), “still”, in Dicionário Hunsriqueano Riograndense–Português, 3rd edition (overall work in Portuguese), Ivoti: Riograndenser Hunsrickisch
still (masculine and femininestill, neuterstilt, definite singular and pluralstille, comparativestillare, indefinite superlativestillast, definite superlativestillaste)
