Unstill

a. (UN-¹ 7. Cf. OE. unstille, OHG. unstilli, MLG. unstil, obs. Du. onstil.)

[1648.  Hexham, II. Onstil, Vnstill, or Disquiet.]

1743.  C. Wesley, in Jrnl. (1805), I. 247. Some very unstil sisters, who always … tried who could cry loudest.

1823.  E. Moor, Suffolk Words, 184. A maid undressing an unstil child.

1903.  Kipling, in Windsor Mag., Sept., 363/1. She never kept still. She kept very unstill.

  Hence Unstillness. (In quots. after OE. unstillnes, -nys.)

1846.  Thorpe, trans. Ælfric’s Hom., II. 375. He … tries these five senses, who through curiosity and unstillness wastes them uselessly.

1875.  Anderida, I. vii. 121. When some … attendants discovered the unstillness to Osgod’s companions.