Stillness, silence; taciturnity; calmness, quiet: “do a wilful s. entertain,” Merch. I, 1, 90. “soft s. and the night,” V, 56. “modest s. and humility,” H5 III, 1, 4. “in patient s. while his rider mounts him,” III, 7, 24. “the gravity and s. of your youth,” Oth. II, 3, 191.

