Obs. Also 7 stillary. [f. STILL v.2 + -ERY.]
1. ? A still. In quots. fig.
1595. Chapman, Ovid’s Banq. Sence, B 4 b. Thus should I be her notes, before they be; While in her blood they sitte with fierye wings Not vapord in her voyces stillerie.
a. 1618. Sylvester, Tobacco Battered, 445. Causing a moist Brain, by unceast supply Of Rheums still drawn to th’ bodie’s Stillary.
1624. Heywood, Captives, II. ii. in Bullen, O. Pl., IV. 142. That stillary of all infectious sinnes.
2. A distillery.
1762. trans. Busching’s Syst. Geog., IV. 353. In it also the farm-buildings, together with the brewery and stillery.
1804. T. Trotter, Ess. Drunkenness, i. 6. Abundance of corn, was again, for the sake of taxation, converted into poisonous spirits, by opening the stilleries.
