Adjective

(en-adj)

Free from sound or noise; absolutely still; perfectly quiet.

* 1604 , , Othello , act 5, scene 1:

How silent is this town!

* 1825 , , Arthur Murphy, The Works of Samuel Johnson , Talboys and Wheeler, page 52:

What was formerly performed by fleets and armies, by invasions, sieges, and battles, has been of late accomplished by more silent methods.

* 1906 , William Dean Howells and Sidney Dillon Ripley, Certain Delightful English Towns: With Glimpses of the Pleasant Country Between , Harper & Brothers, page 152:

The voice of the auctioneer is slow and low ; after a pause, which seems no silenter than the rest of the transaction, he ceases to repeat the bids, and his fish, in the measure of a bushel or so, have gone for a matter of three shillings.

Not speaking; indisposed to talk; speechless; mute; taciturn; not loquacious; not talkative.

* Broome

Ulysses, adds he, was the most eloquent and most silent of men.

* Milton

This new-created world, whereof in hell / Fame is not silent .

Keeping at rest; inactive; calm; undisturbed.

The wind is silent .

(Parnell)

(Sir Walter Raleigh)

(pronunciation) Not pronounced; having no sound; quiescent.

The ''e'' is silent in ''fable''.

Having no effect; not operating; inefficient.

* Sir Walter Raleigh

Cause silent , virtueless, and dead.

(technology) Without audio capability.

The Magnavox Odyssey was a silent console.

Hidden, unseen.

a silent''' voter; a '''silent partner

Not implying significant modifications which would affect a peptide sequence.

Undiagnosed or undetected because of an absence of symptoms.

Adjective

(head)

silent; calm

* {{quote-book, year=1828, author=Various, title=The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Vol. 12,, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=The dead--in holy, stilly peace, the sacred dead repose, Afar from earth's turmoil and grief, and all of sick'ning woes; From racking pain, and withering pride, and avarice's care, Secure they rest in solitude, unaw'd by sin or snare. }}

* {{quote-book, year=1879, author=Anthony Trollope, title=Thackeray, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=Long was the darkness, Lonely and stilly . }}

* {{quote-book, year=1902, author=Jack London, title=A Daughter of the Snows, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=Crickets sang of nights in the stilly cabins, and in the sunshine mosquitoes crept from out hollow logs

* {{quote-book, year=1996, author=Stephen King, title=The Green Mile, chapter=4, edition=Pocket Books, url=

, passage= . . . Marjorie used Central to call as many of her neighbors that were also on the exchange as she could, telling them of the disaster which had fallen like a lightning-stroke out of a clear sky, knowing that each call would produce overlapping ripples, like pebbles tossed rapidly into a stilly pond.}}