stillsome

English

Etymology

From still +‎ -some.

Adjective

stillsome (comparative more stillsome, superlative most stillsome)

1. (archaic or poetic) Marked by stillness; quietsome
   • 1846, Edward Mordaunt Spencer, The Heir of Abbotsville:

     Where many a flow'r deck'd in beauty rare, / Imparted fragrance to the stillsome air; [...]

   • 1883, James Middleton Sutherland, Douglas, and other poems:

     Clear streams that thro' so many winding ways / Stray to the mighty ocean, murm'ring flow, / And make sweet music in the stillsome air.