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Alight :: Alight (v. i.) To descend and settle, lodge, rest, or stop; as, a flying bird alights on a tree; snow alights on a roof..

Stoppered :: Stopper (n.) A name to several trees of the genus Eugenia, found in Florida and the West Indies; as, the red stopper. See Eugenia..

Instop :: Instop (v. t.) To stop; to close; to make fast; as, to instop the seams..

Deadbeat :: Deadbeat (a.) Making a beat without recoil; giving indications by a single beat or excursion; -- said of galvanometers and other instruments in which the needle or index moves to the extent of its deflection and stops with little or no further oscillation.

Estoppel :: Estoppel (n.) A stop; an obstruction or bar to one's alleging or denying a fact contrary to his own previous action, allegation, or denial; an admission, by words or conduct, which induces another to purchase rights, against which the party making such admission can not take a position inconsistent with the admission..

Suffocate :: Suffocate (v. t.) To choke or kill by stopping respiration; to stifle; to smother.

Cork :: Cork (v. t.) To stop with a cork, as a bottle..

Stem :: Stem (v. t.) To oppose or cut with, or as with, the stem of a vessel; to resist, or make progress against; to stop or check the flow of, as a current..

Check :: Check (n.) A condition of interrupted or impeded progress; arrest; stop; delay; as, to hold an enemy in check..

Vial :: Vial (n.) A small bottle, usually of glass; a little glass vessel with a narrow aperture intended to be closed with a stopper; as, a vial of medicine..

Dam :: Dam (v. t.) To shut up; to stop up; to close; to restrain.

Bung :: Bung (n.) The large stopper of the orifice in the bilge of a cask.

Surcease :: Surcease (n.) Cessation; stop; end.

Balk :: Balk (v. i.) A sudden and obstinate stop; a failure.

Conclude :: Conclude (v. t.) To shut off; to restrain; to limit; to estop; to bar; -- generally in the passive; as, the defendant is concluded by his own plea; a judgment concludes the introduction of further evidence argument..

Interrupted :: Interrupted (a.) Broken; intermitted; suddenly stopped.

Sew :: Sew (v. t.) To close or stop by ssewing; -- often with up; as, to sew up a rip..

Detention :: Detention (n.) The state of being detained (stopped or hindered); delay from necessity.

Suppressible :: Suppress (v. t.) To stop; to restrain; to arrest the discharges of; as, to suppress a diarrhea, or a hemorrhage..

Stopping :: Stopped (imp. & p. p.) of Sto.

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