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stil·li·cide

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  1. stillicidenoun

    Water falling in drops, especially in a row from the eaves of a roof, or from icicles or stalactites.

  2. stillicidenoun

    stillicidium; the right to collect such drops from a neighbor's roof that overhangs one's own property.

  3. Etymology: Anglicisation of stillicidium.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Stillicidenoun

    A succession of drops.

    Etymology: stillicidium, Latin.

    The stillicides of water, if there be water enough to follow, will draw themselves into a small thread; because they will not discontinue. Francis Bacon, Natural History.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Stillicidenoun

    a continual falling or succession of drops; rain water falling from the eaves

  2. Etymology: [L. stillicidium; stilla a drop + cadere to fall.]

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Stillicide

    stil′i-sīd, n. an urban servitude among the Romans, where a proprietor was not allowed to build to the extremity of his estate, but must leave a space regulated by the charter by which the property was held, so as not to throw the eavesdrop on the land of his neighbour—same as Eavesdrip.—n. Stillicid′ium, a morbid trickling. [L.]

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of stillicide in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of stillicide in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

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