stillstand

See also: Stillstand

English

Etymology

still +‎ stand

Noun

stillstand (plural stillstands)

1. (geology) A period of time during which a glacier, etc. remains stationary.
2. (obsolete) A standstill.
   • c. 1596–1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iii]:

     As with the tide, swell'd up unto its height ,
     That makes a still-stand, running neither way

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “stillstand”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• stand still, standstill