Stilla, stillæ, Diminut. stiria, vt ait Festus. Mart. Plin. A drop.
Stillo, stillas, stillâre, Plin. To drop.Stillare lachrymã, & lachryma, in ablatiuo. Pli. To drop: to let a drop come from it.Rorem stillare ex ocnlis amicis. Horat. To shed teares or to weepe for gladnesse.Arbor stillauit sanguineis roribus. Lucan. In aurem stillare aliquid.Iuuen.To tell one a thing secretly in the eare.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
stilla, ae, f. [dim. of stĭria; cf. Fest. s. v. stiricipium, p. 345 Müll.; Corss. 1, p. 518], a drop (a dense, viscous, gummy, fatty drop; whereas gutta is a natural, liquid drop: gutta imbrium est, stilla olei vel aceti, Suet. Fragm. p. 319, 27 Roth). I.Lit. (rare but class.): stilla muriae, Cic. Fin. 3, 14, 45; Plin. 29, 4, 21, 70: sicca et sine stillis arbor, Vitr. 2, 9, 3; Serv. Verg. A. 3, 366: olei, App. M. 5, p. 169: stilla saeva (arborum), Plin. 17, 12, 19, 92.—II.Transf., a drop, i. e. a small quantity (post-Aug.): olei, Mart. 12, 70, 3.—Trop.: pauculae temporum,
a very little
,
a moment
Aug. Ep. 140.—III. In later Lat. = gutta, stillae pluviae, Vulg. Job, 36, 27: roris, id. ib. 38, 28: pluviarum, id. Jer. 3, 3.
, 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.