Perfectly still; with no more motion than a stone.
“I will not struggle; I will stand stone still.”
Shakespeare: King John, iv. 1.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.