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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A continual falling or succession of drops.
  2. n. In Roman law: The right to have the rain from one's roof drop on another's land or roof.
  3. n. The right to refuse to allow the rain from another's roof to drop on one's own land or roof.

Wiktionary

  1. n. Water falling in drops, especially in a row from the eaves of a roof, or from icicles or stalactites.
  2. n. law stillicidium; the right to collect such drops from a neighbor's roof that overhangs one's own property.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. A continual falling or succession of drops; rain water falling from the eaves.

Etymologies

  1. Anglicisation of Latin stillicidium. (Wiktionary)

Examples

  • “Of a ripple under archways, or a lone cave’s stillicide:”

    Friends Beyond

  • “Once I could shed tears — now my brain burns to madness, and the soothing stillicide of unutterable grief no longer washes my haggard cheeks.”

    Agnes De-Courci: a Domestic Tale

  • “One whole delicious hour this morning, did my Agnes rest on my shoulder, while I held it for her perusal; and I kissed, unreproved, the sweet stillicide off her glowing cheeks, at every sentence of tenderness, from her respectable friend.”

    Agnes De-Courci: a Domestic Tale

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  • fbharjo I'm glad I am still inside! Nov 29, 2010

  • sionnach .... the svelte
    Stilettos of a frozen stillicide.

    "Pale Fire", lines 34-35. Nov 28, 2008

  • akmed13 n. 1. A continual falling or succession of drops; rain water falling from the eaves.

    n. 2. An unreasoning fear of silence at parties, causing the victim to break out in mindless chatter. Sep 27, 2007

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