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A stoppage or check. Darwin.

Cease; stop; stay. "Avast heaving." Totten.

A portion of food or drink, as a refreshment taken on a journey; also, a stop for rest and refreshment.

A sudden and obstinate stop; a failure.

obstruction, or means of defense. Such a barricade as would greatly annoy, or absolutely stop, the currents of the atmosphere. Derham.

A carpentry obstruction, stockade, or other obstacle made in a passage in order to stop an enemy.

A wind instrument of the double reed kind, furnished with holes, which are stopped by the fingers, and by keys, as in flutes. It forms the natural bass to the oboe, clarinet, etc.

Enough; stop. Shak.

ry gun, a gun capable of firing a number, of shots simultaneously or successively without stopping to load. -- Battery wagon, a wagon employed to transport the tools and materials for repair of the carriages, etc., of the battery. -- In battery, projecting, as a gun, into an embrasure or over a parapet in readiness f…

To keep from motion, or stop the progress of, by the stilling of the wind; as, the fleet was becalmed.

it for with a view to assault. Hence: to block up or obstruct. [Obs.] Dryden. Belay thee! Stop.

Family; relations; household. [Colloq.] Few persons of her ladyship's belongings stopped, before they did her bidding, to ask her reasons. Thackeray.

A bladder growing on the root of the tongue of a horse, against the windpipe, and stopping the breath.

r P. Sidney. And so even now hath he divers blanchers belonging to the market, to let and stop the light of the gospel. Latimer.

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. Seven thin ears, and blasted with the east wind. Gen. xii. 6.

The act of blighting, or the state of being blighted; a withering or mildewing, or a stoppage of growth in the whole or a part of a plant, etc.

To stop; to cease; to desist. [Obs.] Spenser.

Any obstruction, or cause of obstruction; a stop; a hindrance; an obstacle; as, a block in the way.

A stop; a halting; delay. [Obs.]

To stop or hesitate as if suddenly frightened, or in doubt, or impeded by unforeseen difficulties; to take alarm; to exhibit hesitancy and indecision. We start and boggle at every unusual appearance. Glanvill. Boggling at nothing which serveth their purpose. Barrow.