Bestill

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To make quiet or still.
  • [In the following passage uncertain:
  • This is the reading of the folios; the quartos and modern editions read distilled.]
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • transitive verb. To make still.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • verb. To make quiet or still; calm; pacify.
  • Word Usage
    "You've put this so well while using Pop Culture references - bestill my heart! that I wanted to stumble this and lo and behold my damned IT dept has uninstalled my tool bar - gasp!"