Whose disposition all the world well knows
Will not be rubbed nor stopped. Shak.

If his sentences were properly stopped. Landor.

Syn. -- To obstruct; hinder; impede; repress; suppress; restrain; discontinue; delay; interrupt.

To stop off (Founding), to fill (a part of a mold) with sand, where a part of the cavity left by the pattern is not wanted for the casting. -- To stop the mouth. See under Mouth.

He bites his lip, and starts;
Stops on a sudden, looks upon the ground;
Then lays his finger on his temple: strait
Springs out into fast gait; then stops again. Shak.

Stop, while ye may, suspend your mad career! Cowper.

By stopping at home till the money was gone. R. D. Blackmore.

To stop over, to stop at a station beyond the time of the departure of the train on which one came, with the purpose of continuing one's journey on a subsequent train; to break one's journey. [Railroad Cant, U.S.]

It is doubtful . . . whether it contributed anything to the stop of the infection. De Foe.

Occult qualities put a stop to the improvement of natural philosophy. Sir I. Newton.

It is a great step toward the mastery of our desires to give this stop to them. Locke.

A fatal stop traversed their headlong course. Daniel.

So melancholy a prospect should inspire us with zeal to oppose some stop to the rising torrent. Rogers.

The organ sound a time survives the stop. Daniel.

(b)

Stop bead (Arch.), the molding screwed to the inner side of a window frame, on the face of the pulley stile, completing the groove in which the inner sash is to slide. -- Stop motion (Mach.), an automatic device for arresting the motion of a machine, as when a certain operation is completed, or when an imperfection occurs in its performance or product, or in the material which is supplied to it, etc. -- Stop plank, one of a set of planks employed to form a sort of dam in some hydraulic works. -- Stop valve, a valve that can be closed or opened at will, as by hand, for preventing or regulating flow, as of a liquid in a pipe; -- in distinction from a valve which is operated by the action of the fluid it restrains. -- Stop watch, a watch the hands of which can be stopped in order to tell exactly the time that has passed, as in timing a race. See Independent seconds watch, under Independent, a.

Syn. -- Cessation; check; obstruction; obstacle; hindrance; impediment; interruption.