| 释义 |
bestill, v.|bɪˈstɪl|
[f. be- 2 + still v.]
trans. To make quiet, to still, to hush.
1770Armstrong Imit. 80 Each brook that wont to prattle to its banks Lies all bestilled. a1842A. Cunningham Eleg. Ode (R.) Commerce bestill'd her many-nationed tongue. 1871G. Macdonald Wks. Fancy & Imag. II. 107 The solemn looks, the awful place, Bestill the mother's joy.
¶ In the following the quartos and mod. edd. read distilled; but it may belong to this with the sense ‘made motionless, stiffened, congealed.’
1602Shakes. Ham. i. ii. 204 Whilst they bestil'd Almost to Jelly with the Act of feare, Stand dumbe and speake not. |