stillicide

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  1. A continual falling or succession of drops. The stillicides of water, … if there be water enough to follow, will draw themselves into a small thread, because they will not discontinue; but if there be no remedy, then they cast themselves into round drops. Bacon, Nat. Hist., § 24.
  2. In Roman law: The right to have the rain from one's roof drop on another's land or roof.
  3. The right to refuse to allow the rain from another's roof to drop on one's own land or roof.

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  1. from French stillicide, from Latin stillicidium, stilicidium, a falling of drops, dripping, falling rain, from stilla, a drop (see still), + cadere, fall.
 

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