Obs. [f. STILL v.2 + -ING2.] Trickling or falling in drops; distilling.

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a. 1542.  Wyatt, Poems, ‘Process of time,’ 6. And yet an hert that sems so tender receveth no dropp of the stilling teres that [etc.].

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1565.  Golding, Ovid’s Met., I. (1593), 9. And on his feathers and his breast a stilling dew did sticke.

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