Definition of "calm"

Calm is the morn without a sound,⁠Calm as to suit a calmer grief,⁠And only thro’ the faded leafThe chestnut pattering to the ground: […]

1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], canto XI

Calm on the seas, and silver sleep,⁠And waves that sway themselves in rest,⁠And dead calm in that noble breastWhich heaves but with the heaving deep.

1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], canto XI

The wind ceased, and there was a great calm.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], Mark 4:39

It was a calm ; so, forming a tandem of three boats, we commenced the slow business of towing the trophy to the Pequod.

1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter 64, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, page 324

to calm the tempest raised by Aeolus

1697, Virgil, “(please specify the book number)”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […]