(verb) : stillo, āvi, ātum, 1, and
* A [stilla].
* Neutr., to drop, drip, trickle, distil (mostly poet.; syn. roro).
* Lit.: vas, unde stillet lente aqua,Varr. R. R. 1, 41, 2: gutta (dulcedinis) in cor,Lucr. 4, 1060: umorem, quasi igni cera super calido tabescens multa liquescat,id. 6, 515: cruor ferro,Prop. 2, 8, 26 (2, 8 b, 26 (10)): unguenta capillo,Tib. 1, 7, 51: de viridi ilice mella,Ov. M. 1, 112: ros,id. ib. 11, 57: hammoniaci lacrima stillat m harenis,Plin. 12, 23, 49, § 107.
* Act., to cause to drop, let fall in drops, to drop, distil: stillabit amicis Ex oculis rorem, * Hor. A. P. 429: coctam caepam cum adipe anserino,Plin. 20, 5, 20, § 40: stillata De ramis electra,dropped, distilled,Ov. M. 2, 364: stillata cortice myrrha,id. ib. 10, 501; acre malum stillans ocellus,Juv. 6, 109.
* Trop.: stillantes voces,words that ooze out drop by drop,Calp. Ecl. 6, 23; cf.: orationem stillare,Sen. Ep. 40, 3: plumis stillare diem,to be full, to abound in,Stat. Th. 3, 537.
* Trop., to drop, instil: cum facilem stillavit in aurem Exiguum de veneno,Juv. 3, 123.