Stop (v. t.) To make fast; to stopper.
Stop (v. i.) To cease to go on; to halt, or stand still; to come to a stop.
Stop (v. i.) To cease from any motion, or course of action.
Stop (v. i.) To spend a short time; to reside temporarily; to stay; to tarry; as, to stop with a friend.
Stop (n.) The act of stopping, or the state of being stopped; hindrance of progress or of action; cessation; repression; interruption; check; obstruction.
Stop (n.) That which stops, impedes, or obstructs; as obstacle; an impediment; an obstruction.
Stop (n.) A device, or piece, as a pin, block, pawl, etc., for arresting or limiting motion, or for determining the position to which another part shall be brought.
Stop (n.) The closing of an aperture in the air passage, or pressure of the finger upon the string, of an instrument of music, so as to modify the tone; hence, any contrivance by which the sounds of a musical instrument are regulated.
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.
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.
Stop (n.) A point or mark in writing or printing intended to distinguish the sentences, parts of a sentence, or clauses; a mark of punctuation. See Punctuation.
Stop (n.) The diaphragm used in optical instruments to cut off the marginal portions of a beam of light passing through lenses.
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.
Stop (n.) Some part of the articulating organs, as the lips, or the tongue and palate, closed (a) so as to cut off the passage of breath or voice through the mouth and the nose (distinguished as a lip-stop, or a front-stop, etc., as in p, t, d, etc.), or (b) so as to obstruct, but not entirely cut off, the passage, as in l, n, etc.; also, any of the consonants so formed.
Stopcock (n.) A bib, faucet, or short pipe, fitted with a turning stopper or plug for permitting or restraining the flow of a liquid or gas; a cock or valve for checking or regulating the flow of water, gas, etc., through or from a pipe, etc.
Stopcock (n.) The turning plug, stopper, or spigot of a faucet.
Stope (v. i.) A horizontal working forming one of a series, the working faces of which present the appearance of a flight of steps.
Stoped (imp. & p. p.) of Stope
Stoping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Stope
Stope (v. t.) To excavate in the form of stopes.
Stope (v. t.) To fill in with rubbish, as a space from which the ore has been worked out.
Stope (p. p.) Alt. of Stopen
Stopen (p. p.) Stepped; gone; advanced.
Stop-gap (n.) That which closes or fills up an opening or gap; hence, a temporary expedient.
Stoping (n.) The act of excavating in the form of stopes.
Stopless (a.) Not to be stopped.
Stop-over (a.) Permitting one to stop over; as, a stop-over check or ticket. See To stop over, under Stop, v. i.
Stoppage (n.) The act of stopping, or arresting progress, motion, or action; also, the state of being stopped; as, the stoppage of the circulation of the blood; the stoppage of commerce.
Stopped (a.) Made by complete closure of the mouth organs; shut; -- said of certain consonants (p, b, t, d, etc.).
Stopper (n.) One who stops, closes, shuts, or hinders; that which stops or obstructs; that which closes or fills a vent or hole in a vessel.
Stopper (n.) A short piece of rope having a knot at one or both ends, with a lanyard under the knot, -- used to secure something.
Stopper (n.) A name to several trees of the genus Eugenia, found in Florida and the West Indies; as, the red stopper. See Eugenia.
Stoppered (imp. & p. p.) of Stopper
Stoppering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Stopper
Stopper (v. t.) To close or secure with a stopper.
Stopping (n.) Material for filling a cavity.
Stopping (n.) A partition or door to direct or prevent a current of air.
Stopping (n.) A pad or poultice of dung or other material applied to a horse's hoof to keep it moist.
Stopping-out (n.) A method adopted in etching, to keep the acid from those parts which are already sufficiently corroded, by applying varnish or other covering matter with a brush, but allowing the acid to act on the other parts.
Stopple (v. t.) That which stops or closes the mouth of a vessel; a stopper; as, a glass stopple; a cork stopple.
Stoppled (imp. & p. p.) of Stopple
Stoppling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Stopple
Stopple (v. t.) To close the mouth of anything with a stopple, or as with a stopple.
Stopship (n.) A remora. It was fabled to stop ships by attaching itself to them.
Stor (a.) See Stoor.
Storage (n.) The act of depositing in a store or warehouse for safe keeping; also, the safe keeping of goods in a warehouse.
Storage (n.) Space for the safe keeping of goods.
Storage (n.) The price changed for keeping goods in a store.
Storax (n.) Any one of a number of similar complex resins obtained from the bark of several trees and shrubs of the Styrax family. The most common of these is liquid storax, a brown or gray semifluid substance of an agreeable aromatic odor and balsamic taste, sometimes used in perfumery, and in medicine as an expectorant.
Store (v. t.) That which is accumulated, or massed together; a source from which supplies may be drawn; hence, an abundance; a great quantity, or a great number.
Store (v. t.) A place of deposit for goods, esp. for large quantities; a storehouse; a warehouse; a magazine.
Store (v. t.) Any place where goods are sold, whether by wholesale or retail; a shop.
Store (v. t.) Articles, especially of food, accumulated for some specific object; supplies, as of provisions, arms, ammunition, and the like; as, the stores of an army, of a ship, of a family.
Store (a.) Accumulated; hoarded.
Stored (imp. & p. p.) of Store
Storing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Store
Store (v. t.) To collect as a reserved supply; to accumulate; to lay away.
Store (v. t.) To furnish; to supply; to replenish; esp., to stock or furnish against a future time.
Store (v. t.) To deposit in a store, warehouse, or other building, for preservation; to warehouse; as, to store goods.
Stored (a.) Collected or accumulated as a reserve supply; as, stored electricity.
Storehouse (n.) A building for keeping goods of any kind, especially provisions; a magazine; a repository; a warehouse.
Storehouse (n.) A mass or quality laid up.
Storekeeper (n.) A man in charge of stores or goods of any kind; as, a naval storekeeper.
Storekeeper (n.) One who keeps a "store;" a shopkeeper. See 1st Store, 3.
Storer (n.) One who lays up or forms a store.
Storeroom (n.) Room in a storehouse or repository; a room in which articles are stored.
Storeship (n.) A vessel used to carry naval stores for a fleet, garrison, or the like.
Storey (n.) See Story.
Storge (n.) Parental affection; the instinctive affection which animals have for their young.
Storial (a.) Historical.
Storied (a.) Told in a story.
Storied (a.) Having a history; interesting from the stories which pertain to it; venerable from the associations of the past.
Storied (a.) Having (such or so many) stories; -- chiefly in composition; as, a two-storied house.
Storier (n.) A relater of stories; an historian.
Storify (v. t.) To form or tell stories of; to narrate or describe in a story.
Stork (n.) Any one of several species of large wading birds of the family Ciconidae, having long legs and a long, pointed bill. They are found both in the Old World and in America, and belong to Ciconia and several allied genera. The European white stork (Ciconia alba) is the best known. It commonly makes its nests on the top of a building, a chimney, a church spire, or a pillar. The black stork (C. nigra) is native of Asia, Africa, and Europe.
Stork-billed (a.) Having a bill like that of the stork.
Storm (n.) A violent disturbance of the atmosphere, attended by wind, rain, snow, hail, or thunder and lightning; hence, often, a heavy fall of rain, snow, or hail, whether accompanied with wind or not.
Storm (n.) A violent agitation of human society; a civil, political, or domestic commotion; sedition, insurrection, or war; violent outbreak; clamor; tumult.
Storm (n.) A heavy shower or fall, any adverse outburst of tumultuous force; violence.
Storm (n.) A violent assault on a fortified place; a furious attempt of troops to enter and take a fortified place by scaling the walls, forcing the gates, or the like.
Stormed (imp. & p. p.) of Storm
Storming (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Storm
Storm (v. t.) To assault; to attack, and attempt to take, by scaling walls, forcing gates, breaches, or the like; as, to storm a fortified town.
Storm (v. i.) To raise a tempest.
Storm (v. i.) To blow with violence; also, to rain, hail, snow, or the like, usually in a violent manner, or with high wind; -- used impersonally; as, it storms.
Storm (v. i.) To rage; to be in a violent passion; to fume.
Storm-beat (a.) Beaten, injured, or impaired by storms.
Stormcock (n.) The missel thrush.
Stormcock (n.) The fieldfare.
Stormcock (n.) The green woodpecker.
Stormfinch (n.) The storm petrel.
Stormful (a.) Abounding with storms.
Stormglass (n.) A glass vessel, usually cylindrical, filled with a solution which is sensitive to atmospheric changes, indicating by a clouded appearance, rain, snow, etc., and by clearness, fair weather.
Stormily (adv.) In a stormy manner.
Storminess (n.) The state of being stormy; tempestuousness; biosteruousness; impetuousness.
Storming () a. & n. from Storm, v.
Stormless (a.) Without storms.
Stormwind (n.) A heavy wind; a wind that brings a storm; the blast of a storm.
Stormy (superl.) Characterized by, or proceeding from, a storm; subject to storms; agitated with furious winds; biosterous; tempestous; as, a stormy season; a stormy day or week.