stillo, āvi, ātum, 1, v. n. and a [stilla].
I Neutr. , to drop , drip , trickle , distil (mostly poet.; syn. roro).
A Lit.: vas, unde stillet lente aqua, Varr. R. R. 1, 41, 2: gutta (dulcedinis) in cor, Lucr. 4, 1060: umorem, quasi igni cera super calido tabescens multa liquescat, id. 6, 515: cruor ferro, Prop. 2, 8, 26 (2, 8 b, 26 (10)): unguenta capillo, Tib. 1, 7, 51: de viridi ilice mella, Ov. M. 1, 112: ros, id. ib. 11, 57: hammoniaci lacrima stillat m harenis, Plin. 12, 23, 49, § 107.—
B Transf., of things which drop or drop with a liquid: saxa guttis manantibu' stillent, Lucr. 6, 943: paenula multo nimbo, Juv. 5, 79: coma Syrio rore, Tib. 3, 4, 28: sanguine sidera, Ov. Am. 1, 8, 11; cf.: arbor sanguineis roribus, Luc. 7, 837; Sen. Thyest. 1061—Without abl.: umida saxa, super viridi stillantia musco, Lucr. 5, 951: ille, qui stillantem prae se pugionem tulit, * Cic. Phil. 2, 12, 30: uva, Mart. 10, 56, 5; Vulg. Job, 16, 21.—
C Trop.: stillantes voces, words that ooze out drop by drop , Calp. Ecl. 6, 23; cf.: orationem stillare, Sen. Ep. 40, 3: plumis stillare diem, to be full , to abound in , Stat. Th. 3, 537.—
II Act. , to cause to drop , let fall in drops , to drop , distil : stillabit amicis Ex oculis rorem, * Hor. A. P. 429: coctam caepam cum adipe anserino, Plin. 20, 5, 20, § 40: stillata De ramis electra, dropped , distilled , Ov. M. 2, 364: stillata cortice myrrha, id. ib. 10, 501; acre malum stillans ocellus, Juv. 6, 109.—
B Trop., to drop , instil : cum facilem stillavit in aurem Exiguum de veneno, Juv. 3, 123.