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Stay :: Stay (v. i.) To hold from proceeding; to withhold; to restrain; to stop; to hold.

Dog :: Dog (n.) A piece in machinery acting as a catch or clutch; especially, the carrier of a lathe, also, an adjustable stop to change motion, as in a machine tool..

Lodge :: Lodge (v. i.) To come to a rest; to stop and remain; as, the bullet lodged in the bark of a tree..

Stop :: Stop (v. t.) 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..

Hold :: Hold (n. i.) Not to more; to halt; to stop;-mostly in the imperative.

Putty :: Putty (v. t.) To cement, or stop, with putty..

Blastopore :: Blastopore (n.) The pore or opening leading into the cavity of invagination, or archenteron..

Delay :: Delay (v. i.) To move slowly; to stop for a time; to linger; to tarry.

Obstruct :: Obstruct (v. t.) To be, or come, in the way of; to hinder from passing; to stop; to impede; to retard; as, the bar in the harbor obstructs the passage of ships; clouds obstruct the light of the sun; unwise rules obstruct legislation..

Tampoon :: Tampoon (n.) The stopper of a barrel; a bung.

Brake :: Brake (v. t.) A piece of mechanism for retarding or stopping motion by friction, as of a carriage or railway car, by the pressure of rubbers against the wheels, or of clogs or ratchets against the track or roadway, or of a pivoted lever against a wheel or drum in a machine..

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

Menostasis :: Menostasis (n.) Stoppage of the mences.

Cork :: Cork (n.) The outer layer of the bark of the cork tree (Quercus Suber), of which stoppers for bottles and casks are made. See Cutose..

Stopless :: Stoping (n.) The act of excavating in the form of stopes.

Intercept :: Intercept (v. t.) To take or seize by the way, or before arrival at the destined place; to cause to stop on the passage; as, to intercept a letter; a telegram will intercept him at Paris..

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

Cease :: Cease (v. t.) To put a stop to; to bring to an end.

Stoppling :: Stoppled (imp. & p. p.) of Stoppl.

Tompion :: Tompion (n.) A stopper of a cannon or a musket. See Tampion.

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