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Roulette :: Roulette (n.) A game of chance, in which a small ball is made to move round rapidly on a circle divided off into numbered red and black spaces, the one on which it stops indicating the result of a variety of wagers permitted by the game..

Cloy :: Cloy (v. t.) To fill or choke up; to stop up; to clog.

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

Sew :: Sew (v. t.) To close or stop by ssewing; -- often with up; as, to sew up a rip..

Lin :: Lin (v. i.) To yield; to stop; to cease.

Stem :: Stem (v. t.) To oppose or cut with, or as with, the stem of a vessel; to resist, or make progress against; to stop or check the flow of, as a current..

Hoy :: Hoy (interj.) Ho! Halloe! Stop.

Stifle :: Stifle (v. t.) To stop; to extinguish; to deaden; to quench; as, to stifle the breath; to stifle a fire or flame..

Dash :: Dash (n.) A mark or line [--], in writing or printing, denoting a sudden break, stop, or transition in a sentence, or an abrupt change in its construction, a long or significant pause, or an unexpected or epigrammatic turn of sentiment. Dashes are also sometimes used instead of marks or parenthesis..

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

Selvagee :: Selvagee (n.) A skein or hank of rope yarns wound round with yarns or marline, -- used for stoppers, straps, etc..

Deoppilation :: Deoppilation (n.) Removal of whatever stops up the passages.

Gripe :: Gripe (n.) A device for grasping or holding anything; a brake to stop a wheel.

Abscission :: Abscission (n.) A figure of speech employed when a speaker having begun to say a thing stops abruptly: thus, He is a man of so much honor and candor, and of such generosity -- but I need say no more..

Post :: Post (n.) The place at which anything is stopped, placed, or fixed; a station..

Nonsuit :: Nonsuit (n.) A neglect or failure by the plaintiff to follow up his suit; a stopping of the suit; a renunciation or withdrawal of the cause by the plaintiff, either because he is satisfied that he can not support it, or upon the judge's expressing his opinion. A compulsory nonsuit is a nonsuit ordered by the court on the ground that the plaintiff on his own showing has not made out his case..

Obstipation :: Obstipation (n.) The act of stopping up, as a passage..

Stoppling :: Stoppled (imp. & p. p.) of Stoppl.

Strangle :: Strangle (v. t.) To compress the windpipe of (a person or animal) until death results from stoppage of respiration; to choke to death by compressing the throat, as with the hand or a rope..

Ventage :: Ventage (n.) A small hole, as the stop in a flute; a vent..

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