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abscission
accurately
aground
allegory
anchor
aporia
arrest
arrested
aspiring
astriction
avast
bagpipe
bait
baneberry
bar
barricade
barrier
base
bassoon
becalm
blain
blast
blin
block
bode
bodge
boggle
boggling
bottle
break
bung
by
calk
calked
call
caveat
cease
ceaseless
ceasing
cessation
check
checked
checking
checkt
chock
choke
clamor
clarichord
close
communication
conceal
conclude
concluded
constipate
content
conuterbuff
cork
couch
counterbuff
countercheck
cross
crows-foot
cumber
cut
dam
damper
dash
delay
demur
demurrer
demurring
deobstruct
desist
desistance
detainer
detaing
detent
deter
discontinue
downright
embar
embargoed
enjoin
ensear
epoch
estop
estopped
estoppel
estopping
exception
fast
faucet
fipple
flute
forbear
foreclose
forgiveness
fother
fothering
full
gag
gap
gargil
gate
gest
gravel
graveled
hack
halt
halting
haw
heave
herb-christopher
hesitancy
hesitate
hesitation
hinderance
hindered
hinderer
hindering
hit
hitch
ho
hold
holding
ignoramus
impeachment
impede
impeded
impeding
indication
instop
intercept
intercepted
interception
intercipient
interclusion
intermission
interpoint
interrupt
interrupted
interruption
ischury
jerk
jog
latch
log
lute
luting
matter
mire
morose
mouth
nail
negation
negative
nonplus
nonsuit
oakum
obstipation
obstruct
obstructed
obstructing
obstruction
obturation
open
oppilation
organ
organ-stop
padlock
pare
parry
pause
pausing
period
plug
point
pond
pose
propolis
put
putty
quiet
ratchet
register
resistance
rest
scotch
scupper-plug
servant
shank-painter
silence
snub
solstice
something
spigot
spike
spiked
spiking
spile
spill
spirit
spot
squash
staid
stammer
stammering
stammeringly
stanch
stanched
stancher
stanching
stanchless
stand
stank
stay
stayer
stayless
stegnotic
stem
stemmed
stemming
stench
stick
stifle
still
stintance
stoak
stond
stop
stop-cock
stop-gap
stopless
stoppage
stopped
stopper
stoppered
stopping
stopple
strangle
strangling
strangulation
stub
stumble
stun
stupefaction
stupid
stutter
styptic
styptical
stypticity
subdivide
sufflaminate
suffocate
suffocation
suppress
suppressed
suppression
surcease
suspense
tacit
take
tamkin
tier
toll-bar
tompion
touch
trig
turnpike
unstanched
unstop
unstopped
unstopping
virelay
wad
wait
warrant
waxing
wear
weather-cock



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1828 Definition

STOP, v.t. [G., to stop, to check, to pose, to fill, to cram, to stuff, to quilt, to darn, to mend. See Stifle. L., tow; to stuff, to crowd; to be stupefied, whence stupid, stupor, [that is, to stop, or a stop.] The primary sense is either to cease to move, or to stuff, to press, to thrust in, to cram; probably the latter.]

1. To close, as an aperture, by filling or by obstructing; as, to stop a vent; to stop the ears; to stop wells of water. 2 Kings 3.

2. To obstruct; to render impassable; as, to stop a way, road or passage.

3. To hinder; to impede; to arrest progress; as, to stop a passenger in the road; to stop the course of a stream.

4. To restrain; to hinder; to suspend; as to stop the execution of a decree.

5. To repress; to suppress; to restrain; as, to stop the progress of vice.

6. To hinder; to check; as, to stop the approaches of old age or infirmity.

7. To hinder from action or practice.

Whose disposition, all the world well knows, will not be rubbd nor stoppd.

8. To put an end to any motion or action; to intercept; as, to stop the breath; to stop proceedings.

9. To regulate the sounds of musical strings; as, to stop a string.

10. In seamanship, to make fast.

11. To point; as a written composition. [Not in use.]

STOP, v.i.

1. To cease to go forward.

Some strange commotion is in his brain; he bites his lip, and starts; stops on a sudden, looks upon the ground---

2. To cease from any motion or course of action. When you are accustomed to a course of vice, it is very difficult to stop.

The best time to stop is at the beginning.

STOP, n.

1. Cessation of progressive motion; as, to make a stop.

2. Hindrance of progress; obstruction; act of stopping.

Occult qualities put a stop to the improvement of natural philosophy--

3. Repression; hindrance of operation or action.

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

4. Interruption.

These stops of thine fright me the more.

5. Prohibition of sale; as the stop of wine and salt.

6. That which obstructs; obstacle; impediment.

A fatal stop travesd their headlong course.

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

7. The instrument by which the sounds of wind music are regulated; as the stops of a flute or an organ.

8. Regulation of musical chords by the fingers.

In the stops of lutes, the higher they go, the less distance is between the frets.

9. The act of applying the stops in music.

Th organ-sound a time survives the stop.

10. A point or mark in writing, intended to distinguish the sentences, parts of a sentence or clauses, and to show the proper pauses in reading. The stops generally used, are the comma, semi-colon, colon and period. To these may be added the marks of interrogation and exclamation.
1913 Definition
Stop (stop)
v. t.(?)
Stop
[imp. *** p. p. Stopped (?)] p. pr. *** vb. n. Stopping.] [OE. stoppen, AS. stoppian (in comp.)] akin to LG. *** D. stoppen, G. stopfen, Icel. stoppa, Sw.
  1. To close, as an aperture, by filling or by obstructing; as, to stop the ears; hence, to stanch, as a wound.
    Shak.
  2. To obstruct; to render impassable; as, to stop a way, road, or passage.
  3. To arrest the progress of; to hinder; to impede; to shut in; as, to stop a traveler; to stop the course of a stream, or a flow of blood.
  4. To hinder from acting or moving; to prevent the effect or efficiency of; to cause to cease; to repress; to restrain; to suppress; to interrupt; to suspend; as, to stop the execution of a decree, the progress of vice, the approaches of old age or infirmity.

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

  5. To regulate the sounds of, as musical strings, by pressing them against the finger board with the finger, or by shortening in any way the vibrating part.
  6. To point, as a composition; to punctuate.
    [R.]

    If his sentences were properly stopped. Landor.

  7. To make fast; to stopper.

    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.

  8. To cease to go on; to halt, or stand still; to come to a stop.

    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.

  9. To cease from any motion, or course of action.

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

  10. To spend a short time; to reside temporarily; to stay; to tarry; as, to stop with a friend.
    [Colloq.]

    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.]

  11. The act of stopping, or the state of being stopped; hindrance of progress or of action; cessation; repression; interruption; check; obstruction.

    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.

  12. That which stops, impedes, or obstructs; as obstacle; an impediment; an obstruction.

    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.

  13. A device, or piece, as a pin, block, pawl, etc., for arresting or limiting motion, or for determining the position to which another part shall be brought.
  14. The closing of an aperture in the air passage, or pressure of the finger upon the string, of an instrument of music, so as to modify the tone; hence, any contrivance by which the sounds of a musical instrument are regulated.

    The organ sound a time survives the stop. Daniel.

    (b)

  15. A member, plain or molded, formed of a separate piece and fixed to a jamb, against which a door or window shuts. This takes the place, or answers the purpose, of a rebate. Also, a pin or block to prevent a drawer from sliding too far.
  16. A point or mark in writing or printing intended to distinguish the sentences, parts of a sentence, or clauses; a mark of punctuation. See Punctuation.
  17. The diaphragm used in optical instruments to cut off the marginal portions of a beam of light passing through lenses.
  18. The depression in the face of a dog between the skull and the nasal bones. It is conspicuous in the bulldog, pug, and some other breeds.
  19. Some part of the articulating organs, as the lips, or the tongue and palate, closed (a) so as to cut off the passage of breath or voice through the mouth and the nose (distinguished as a lip-stop, or a front-stop, etc., as in p, t, d, etc.), or (b) so as to obstruct, but not entirely cut off, the passage, as in l, n, etc.; also, any of the consonants so formed.
    H. Sweet.

    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.


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