Definition of stop

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Stop (v. i.) To spend a short time; to reside temporarily; to stay; to tarry; as, to stop with a friend..

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Fipple :: Fipple (n.) A stopper, as in a wind instrument of music..
Stay :: Stay (v. i.) To stop from motion or falling; to prop; to fix firmly; to hold up; to support.
Claribella :: Claribella (n.) A soft, sweet stop, or set of open wood pipes in an organ..
Plugging :: Plugging (n.) The material of which a plug or stopple is made.
Interrupt :: Interrupt (v. t.) To break into, or between; to stop, or hinder by breaking in upon the course or progress of; to interfere with the current or motion of; to cause a temporary cessation of; as, to interrupt the remarks speaking..
Jog :: "Jog (n.) A rub; a slight stop; an obstruction; hence, an irregularity in motion of from; a hitch; a break in the direction of a line or the surface of a plane..
Stick :: Stick (v. i.) To be prevented from going farther; to stop by reason of some obstacle; to be stayed.
Cork :: Cork (v. t.) To stop with a cork, as a bottle..
Close :: Close (n.) To stop, or fill up, as an opening; to shut; as, to close the eyes; to close a door..
Stope :: Stoping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Stop.
Gripe :: Gripe (n.) A device for grasping or holding anything; a brake to stop a wheel.
Blast :: Blast (v. t.) To injure, as by a noxious wind; to cause to wither; to stop or check the growth of, and prevent from fruit-bearing, by some pernicious influence; to blight; to shrivel..
Detain :: Detain (v. t.) To restrain from proceeding; to stay or stop; to delay; as, we were detained by an accident..
Stopping :: Stopper (v. t.) To close or secure with a stopper.
Nonsuit :: Nonsuit (n.) A neglect or failure by the plaintiff to follow up his suit; a stopping of the suit; a renunciation or withdrawal of the cause by the plaintiff, either because he is satisfied that he can not support it, or upon the judge's expressing his opinion. A compulsory nonsuit is a nonsuit ordered by the court on the ground that the plaintiff on his own showing has not made out his case..
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..
Mahovo :: Mahovo (n.) A device for saving power in stopping and starting a railroad car, by means of a heavy fly wheel..
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..
Intercipient :: Intercipient (n.) One who, or that which, intercepts or stops anything on the passage..
Suppressible :: Suppress (v. t.) To stop; to restrain; to arrest the discharges of; as, to suppress a diarrhea, or a hemorrhage..
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