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Short :: Short (adv.) In a short manner; briefly; limitedly; abruptly; quickly; as, to stop short in one's course; to turn short..

Oppilation :: Oppilation (n.) The act of filling or crowding together; a stopping by redundant matter; obstruction, particularly in the lower intestines..

Dulciana :: Dulciana (n.) A sweet-toned stop of an organ.

Sluice :: Sluice (n.) An artifical passage for water, fitted with a valve or gate, as in a mill stream, for stopping or regulating the flow; also, a water gate or flood gate..

Fother :: Fother (v. t.) To stop (a leak in a ship at sea) by drawing under its bottom a thrummed sail, so that the pressure of the water may force it into the crack..

Stanchion :: Stancher (n.) One who, or that which, stanches, or stops, the flowing, as of blood..

Cease :: Cease (v. i.) To come to an end; to stop; to leave off or give over; to desist; as, the noise ceased..

Gastrula :: Gastrula (n.) An embryonic form having its origin in the invagination or pushing in of the wall of the planula or blastula (the blastosphere) on one side, thus giving rise to a double-walled sac, with one opening or mouth (the blastopore) which leads into the cavity (the archenteron) lined by the inner wall (the hypoblast). See Illust. under Invagination. In a more general sense, an ideal stage in embryonic development. See Gastraea..

Countercheck :: Countercheck (n.) A check; a stop; a rebuke, or censure to check a reprover..

Block :: Block (v. t.) Any obstruction, or cause of obstruction; a stop; a hindrance; an obstacle; as, a block in the way..

Bode :: Bode (n.) A stop; a halting; delay.

Head :: Head (v. t.) To go in front of; to get in the front of, so as to hinder or stop; to oppose; hence, to check or restrain; as, to head a drove of cattle; to head a person; the wind heads a ship..

Viol :: Viol (n.) A stringed musical instrument formerly in use, of the same form as the violin, but larger, and having six strings, to be struck with a bow, and the neck furnished with frets for stopping the strings..

Blin :: Blin (v. t. & i.) To stop; to cease; to desist.

Estoppel :: Estoppel (n.) The agency by which the law excludes evidence to dispute certain admissions, which the policy of the law treats as indisputable..

Arrest :: Arrest (v. t.) To stop; to check or hinder the motion or action of; as, to arrest the current of a river; to arrest the senses..

Pug :: Pug (v. t.) To fill or stop with clay by tamping; to fill in or spread with mortar, as a floor or partition, for the purpose of deadening sound. See Pugging, 2..

Basta :: Basta (interj.) Enough; stop.

Stead :: Stayship (n.) A remora, -- fabled to stop ships by attaching itself to them..

Stopen :: Stope (p. p.) Alt. of Stope.

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