Definition of stop

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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..

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Wear :: Wear (n.) A dam in a river to stop and raise the water, for the purpose of conducting it to a mill, forming a fish pond, or the like..
Bourdon :: Bourdon (n.) A kind of organ stop.
Conclude :: Conclude (v. t.) To shut off; to restrain; to limit; to estop; to bar; -- generally in the passive; as, the defendant is concluded by his own plea; a judgment concludes the introduction of further evidence argument..
Plugging :: Plugging (n.) The material of which a plug or stopple is made.
Stint :: Stint (v. i.) To stop; to cease.
Face :: Face (v. t.) To meet in front; to oppose with firmness; to resist, or to meet for the purpose of stopping or opposing; to confront; to encounter; as, to face an enemy in the field of battle..
Stoping :: Stop-gap (n.) That which closes or fills up an opening or gap; hence, a temporary expedient..
Arrest :: Arrest (v. t.) The act of stopping, or restraining from further motion, etc.; stoppage; hindrance; restraint; as, an arrest of development..
Stoppling :: Stoppled (imp. & p. p.) of Stoppl.
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..
Basta :: Basta (interj.) Enough; stop.
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..
Copula :: Copula (n.) The stop which connects the manuals, or the manuals with the pedals; -- called also coupler..
Estoppel :: Estoppel (n.) The agency by which the law excludes evidence to dispute certain admissions, which the policy of the law treats as indisputable..
Still :: Still (a.) To stop, as motion or agitation; to cause to become quiet, or comparatively quiet; to check the agitation of; as, to still the raging sea..
Cloy :: Cloy (v. t.) To fill or choke up; to stop up; to clog.
Stintedness :: Stintance (n.) Restraint; stoppage.
Stoppage :: Stop-over (a.) Permitting one to stop over; as, a stop-over check or ticket. See To stop over, under Stop, v. i..
Stagely :: Stagehouse (n.) A house where a stage regularly stops for passengers or a relay of horses.
Estoppel :: Estoppel (n.) A stop; an obstruction or bar to one's alleging or denying a fact contrary to his own previous action, allegation, or denial; an admission, by words or conduct, which induces another to purchase rights, against which the party making such admission can not take a position inconsistent with the admission..
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