Quiet, still. Chiefly in to bear, hold, keep (oneself) coy. Obsolete.

Perfectly quiet or silent. Obsolete.

Of a person or animal: causing little or no disturbance or commotion; not moving or acting; remaining at rest; (in later use esp.) making little…

Not making a noise; quiet; silent. Obsolete.

Peaceful, quiet, silent; confidential, unmentioned.

As participial adjective. ? ‘Dead’ (silence).

Without the faculty of voice or speech, dumb, mute; also, without speaking, speechless, silent.

Silent.

In extended use (applied to things normally capable of making a sound or usually associated with a sound): quiet, having fallen silent; making no…

Silent, quiet, still, hushed; making no sound; free from noise or disturbance. (Usually predicative)

Of an object: making no noise or sound.

Characterized by absence of physical activity, motion, or sound; profoundly quiet or still. (Cf. B. 2.)

Silent, still, quiet; later, Reduced to silence, rendered silent.

hushed, silent.

intransitive and transitive. = whist, v.1

= whist, adj.1

Silent, quiet, still, hushed.

Silent; = husht, n., whisht, n.

quiet (also †mum, mute, still,etc.) as a mouse (in a cheese): very quiet. †(to speak) like a mouse in a cheese: (to speak) with a muffled voice…

utterly speechless and still.

Silent, quiet; making no stir or commotion.

Hushed, silent: = whisht, adj.1, whist, adj.1

Not emitting sound, unaccompanied or unattended by sound of any kind; silent, mute; unheard, from the sound being drowned by a louder one.

Having, making, emitting, etc., no sound; devoid of sound; quiet, silent.

Used as adj. Hushed, silent. Cf. whist, adj.1

Almost silent; very quiet.

Quiet. Cf. deftly, adv. 3. Still dialect.

Quiet, silent; motionless.

(un-, prefix1 affix 2 + toned, adj.)

Of a person, a person's behaviour, etc.: suggestive of a mouse; shy, quiet, timid, ineffectual.

silent, noiseless.

Resembling, evoking, or associated with death; = deathly, adj. 3a.

not uttering a whisper, or in which no whisper is heard; absolutely silent.

Of the nature of or resembling death; having the appearance of death or of a corpse; gloomy, pale, still, etc., in a manner which evokes death.