Definition of stop

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Stop (n.) 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..

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Becalm :: Becalm (v. t.) To keep from motion, or stop the progress of, by the stilling of the wind; as, the fleet was becalmed..
Pause :: Pause (n.) A temporary stop or rest; an intermission of action; interruption; suspension; cessation.
Uncheckable :: Uncheckable (a.) Not capable of being checked or stopped.
Cork :: Cork (v. t.) To stop with a cork, as a bottle..
Oppilation :: Oppilation (n.) The act of filling or crowding together; a stopping by redundant matter; obstruction, particularly in the lower intestines..
Breathing :: Breathing (n.) Stop; pause; delay.
Point :: Point (n.) A mark of punctuation; a character used to mark the divisions of a composition, or the pauses to be observed in reading, or to point off groups of figures, etc.; a stop, as a comma, a semicolon, and esp. a period; hence, figuratively, an end, or conclusion..
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..
Sufflate :: Sufflaminate (v. t.) Hence, to stop; to impede..
Sist :: Sist (v. t.) To stay, as judicial proceedings; to delay or suspend; to stop..
Antihemorrhagic :: Antihemorrhagic (a.) Tending to stop hemorrhage.
Principal :: Principal (n.) In English organs the chief open metallic stop, an octave above the open diapason. On the manual it is four feet long, on the pedal eight feet. In Germany this term corresponds to the English open diapason..
Putty :: Putty (v. t.) To cement, or stop, with putty..
Stope :: Stoping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Stop.
Plug :: Plug (v. t.) To stop with a plug; to make tight by stopping a hole.
Stop :: Stop (n.) 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..
Stopping :: Stopping (n.) Material for filling a cavity.
Register :: Register (n.) A lid, stopper, or sliding plate, in a furnace, stove, etc., for regulating the admission of air to the fuel; also, an arrangement containing dampers or shutters, as in the floor or wall of a room or passage, or in a chimney, for admitting or excluding heated air, or for regulating ventilation..
Stop :: Stop (n.) In the organ, one of the knobs or handles at each side of the organist, by which he can draw on or shut off any register or row of pipes; the register itself; as, the vox humana stop..
Saltmouth :: Saltmouth (n.) A wide-mouthed bottle with glass stopper for holding chemicals, especially crystallized salts..
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