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Suppression :: Suppression (n.) Complete stoppage of a natural secretion or excretion; as, suppression of urine; -- used in contradiction to retention, which signifies that the secretion or excretion is retained without expulsion..

Shive :: Shive (n.) A thin, flat cork used for stopping a wide-mouthed bottle; also, a thin wooden bung for casks..

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

Stealing :: Stealer (n.) The endmost plank of a strake which stops short of the stem or stern.

Stent :: Stent (v. i.) To stint; to stop; to cease.

Prevent :: Prevent (v. t.) To intercept; to hinder; to frustrate; to stop; to thwart.

Stagely :: Stagehouse (n.) A house where a stage regularly stops for passengers or a relay of horses.

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

Spiked :: Spiked (a.) Furnished or set with spikes, as corn; fastened with spikes; stopped with spikes..

Estopping :: Estopping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Esto.

Reedwork :: Reedwork (n.) A collective name for the reed stops of an organ.

Solstice :: Solstice (v. i.) A stopping or standing still of the sun.

Delay :: Delay (n.) To retard; to stop, detain, or hinder, for a time; to retard the motion, or time of arrival, of; as, the mail is delayed by a heavy fall of snow..

Hitch :: Hitch (n.) A stop or sudden halt; a stoppage; an impediment; a temporary obstruction; an obstacle; as, a hitch in one's progress or utterance; a hitch in the performance..

Counterbuff :: Counterbuff (n.) A blow in an opposite direction; a stroke that stops motion or cause a recoil.

Spigot :: Spigot (n.) A pin or peg used to stop the vent in a cask; also, the plug of a faucet or cock..

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..

Stand :: Stand (n.) To cease from progress; not to proceed; to stop; to pause; to halt; to remain stationary.

Sist :: Sist (v. t.) To stay, as judicial proceedings; to delay or suspend; to stop..

Wear :: Wear (n.) A dam in a river to stop and raise the water, for the purpose of conducting it to a mill, forming a fish pond, or the like..

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