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To stop. [Archaic] They stoop, they bow down together. Is. xlvi. 2

An onomatopoetic name for a dog or its bark. -- a.

A thin nail, usually small, with a slight projection at the top on one side instead of a head; also, a small wire nail, with a flat circular head; sometimes, a small, tapering, square-bodied finishing nail, with a countersunk head.

rough, To shelter thee from tempest and from rain. Shak. He stayed not for brake, and he stopped not for stone. Sir W. Scott. Cane brake, a thicket of canes. See Canebrake.

a main stock, line, way, theme, etc.; as, a branch vein; a branch road or line; a branch topic; a branch store.

A large four-wheeled carriage, having a straight body and calash top, with the driver's seat in front and the footman's behind.

Stop; pause; delay. You shake the head at so long a breathing. Shak.

t and refract the light, by which it is rendered nore brilliant. It has at the middle, or top, a principal face, called the table, which is surrounded by a number of sloping facets forming a bizet; below, it has a small face or collet, parallel to the table, connected with the gridle by a pavilion of elongated facets.…

To fill to the brim, upper edge, or top. Arrange the board and brim the glass. Tennyson.

To cause to stop suddenly. (c)

A long carriage, with a calash top, so constructed as to give space for reclining at night, when used on a journey.

To make public; to utter; to publish first; to put forth; to introduce as a topic of conversation. Those very opinions themselves had broached. Swift.

An implement for sweeping floors, etc., commonly made of the panicles or tops of broom corn, bound together or attached to a long wooden handle; -- so called because originally made of the twigs of the broom. Butcher's broom, a plant (Ruscus aculeatus) of the Smilax family, used by butchers for brooms to sweep their bl…

A light, four-wheeled vehicle, usually with one seat, and with or without a calash top. [U.S.] Buggy cultivator, a cultivator with a seat for the driver. -- Buggy plow, a plow, or set of plows, having a seat for the driver; -- called also sulky plow.

A slightly sweetened raised cake or bisquit with a glazing of sugar and milk on the top crust.

o the custom of a man and woman, especially lovers, thus sleeping. Bartlett. Van Corlear stopped occasionally in the villages to eat pumpkin pies, dance at country frolics, and bundle with the Yankee lasses. W. Irving.

The large stopper of the orifice in the bilge of a cask.

The tops or heads of stream-work which lie over the stream of tin.

sists essentially of a graduated glass tube, usually furnished with a small aperture and stopcock.

being also admitted at the bottom, a mixture of gas and air is formed which burns at the top with a feebly luminous but intensely hot flame. -- Argand burner, Rose burner, etc. See under Argand, Rose, etc.