stillicidium

The servitudes stillicidii and fluminis recipiendi, were similar: stillicidium was the right to drip; and fluminis recipiendi, the right to discharge rainwater collected in canals or gutters.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy 1840-1916 1913

A. limatula and stillicidium are also miocene shells, and common in the marl beds of the Cape Fear river.

Report of the North-Carolina Geological Survey. Agriculture of the Eastern Counties: Together with Descriptions of the Fossils of the Marl Beds 1858

I often cried, -- not those pattering tears that run off the eaves upon our neighbors 'grounds, the stillicidium of self-conscious sentiment, but those which steal noiselessly through their conduits until they reach the cisterns lying round about the heart; those tears that we weep inwardly with unchanging features; -- such I did shed for her often when the imps of the boarding-house Inferno tugged at her soul with their red-hot pincers.]

Autocrat of the Breakfast Table Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851

I often cried, -- not those pattering tears that run off the eaves upon our neighbors 'grounds, the stillicidium of self-conscious sentiment, but those which steal noiselessly through their conduits until they reach the cisterns lying round about the heart; those tears that we weep inwardly with unchanging features; -- such I did shed for her often when the imps of the boarding-house Inferno tugged at her soul with their red-hot pincers.]

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