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To stay, as judicial proceedings; to delay or suspend; to stop.

An instrument for indicating and recording shocks to railway cars occasioned by sudden stopping.

ope (Naut.), a rope by which a cable is secured preparatory to slipping. Totten. -- Slip stopper (Naut.), an arrangement for letting go the anchor suddenly.

An artifical passage for water, fitted with a valve or gate, as in a mill stream, for stopping or regulating the flow; also, a water gate of flood gate.

Smoke; smother. [Obs.] The smolder stops our nose with stench. Gascoigne.

To cry or whine with snuffling, as children; to cry weakly or whiningly. Put stop to thy sniveling ditty. Sir W. Scott.

To check, stop, or rebuke, with a tart, sarcastic reply or remark; to reprimand; to check. J. Foster.

Be as you are; stand still; stop; that will do; right as you are; -- a word used esp. to cows; also used by sailors.

Be quiet; hold; stop; not so fast. Soft, you; a word or two before you go. Shak.

A stopping or standing still of the sun. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

To desist; to stop; to refrain. [Obs.] Chaucer.

ic zeal or industry. Spasmodic croup (Med.), an affection of childhood characterized by a stoppage of brathing developed suddenly and without fever, and produced by spasmodic contraction of the vocal cords. It is sometimes fatal. Called also laryngismus stridulus, and childcrowing. -- Spasmodic stricture, a stricture…

A pin or peg used to stop the vent in a cask; also, the plug of a faucet or cock. Spigot and faucet joint, a joint for uniting pipes, formed by the insertion of the end of one pipe, or pipe fitting, into a socket at the end of another.

To stop the vent of (a gun or cannon) by driving a spike nail, or the like into it.

Furnished or set with spikes, as corn; fastened with spikes; stopped with spikes. A youth, leaping over the spiked pales, . . . was caught by those spikes. Wiseman.

A small plug or wooden pin, used to stop a vent, as in a cask.

A sudden fall of a heavy, soft body; also, a shock of soft bodies. Arbuthnot. My fall was stopped by a terrible squash. Swift.

A house where a stage regularly stops for passengers or a relay of horses.

To make involuntary stops in uttering syllables or words; to hesitate or falter in speaking; to speak with stops and diffivulty; to stutter. I would thou couldst stammer, that thou mightest pour this conclead man out of thy mouth, as wine comes out of a narrow-mouthed bottle, either too much at once, or none at all. Sh…

To stop the flowing of, as blood; to check; also, to stop the flowing of blood from; as, to stanch a wound. [Written also staunch.] Iron or a stone laid to the neck doth stanch the bleeding of the nose. Bacon.