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Menostasis :: Menostasis (n.) Stoppage of the mences.

Principal :: Principal (n.) In English organs the chief open metallic stop, an octave above the open diapason. On the manual it is four feet long, on the pedal eight feet. In Germany this term corresponds to the English open diapason..

Blast :: Blast (v. t.) 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..

Tampion :: Tampion (n.) A wooden stopper, or plug, as for a cannon or other piece of ordnance, when not in use..

Lute :: Lute (n.) A stringed instrument formerly much in use. It consists of four parts, namely, the table or front, the body, having nine or ten ribs or sides, arranged like the divisions of a melon, the neck, which has nine or ten frets or divisions, and the head, or cross, in which the screws for tuning are inserted. The strings are struck with the right hand, and with the left the stops are pressed..

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

Terminate :: Terminate (v. i.) To be limited in space by a point, line, or surface; to stop short; to end; to cease; as, the torrid zone terminates at the tropics..

Fielder :: Fielder (n.) A ball payer who stands out in the field to catch or stop balls.

Inhibition :: Inhibition (n.) A stopping or checking of an already present action; a restraining of the function of an organ, or an agent, as a digestive fluid or ferment, etc.; as, the inhibition of the respiratory center by the pneumogastric nerve; the inhibition of reflexes, etc..

Halt :: Halt (v. t.) To cause to cease marching; to stop; as, the general halted his troops for refreshment..

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

Viol :: Viol (n.) A stringed musical instrument formerly in use, of the same form as the violin, but larger, and having six strings, to be struck with a bow, and the neck furnished with frets for stopping the strings..

Stop :: Stop (n.) The diaphragm used in optical instruments to cut off the marginal portions of a beam of light passing through lenses.

Forestall :: Forestall (v. t.) To obstruct or stop up, as a way; to stop the passage of on highway; to intercept on the road, as goods on the way to market..

Halt :: Halt (n.) A stop in marching or walking, or in any action; arrest of progress..

Piccolo :: Piccolo (n.) An organ stop, with a high, piercing tone..

Field :: Field (v. t.) To catch, stop, throw, etc. (the ball), as a fielder..

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

Interclusion :: Interclusion (n.) Interception; a stopping / obstruction.

Oakum :: Oakum (n.) The material obtained by untwisting and picking into loose fiber old hemp ropes; -- used for calking the seams of ships, stopping leaks, etc..

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