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Stop-gap :: Stopen (p. p.) Stepped; gone; advanced.

Oppilation :: Oppilation (n.) The act of filling or crowding together; a stopping by redundant matter; obstruction, particularly in the lower intestines..

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..

Uncheckable :: Uncheckable (a.) Not capable of being checked or stopped.

Bourdon :: Bourdon (n.) A kind of organ stop.

Check :: Check (n.) A condition of interrupted or impeded progress; arrest; stop; delay; as, to hold an enemy in check..

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..

Cessation :: Cessation (n.) A ceasing or discontinuance, as of action, whether temporary or final; a stop; as, a cessation of the war..

Stop :: Stop (v. t.) To point, as a composition; to punctuate..

Check :: Check (v. t.) To put a sudden restraint upon; to stop temporarily; to hinder; to repress; to curb.

Cease :: Cease (v. t.) To put a stop to; to bring to an end.

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

Countercheck :: Countercheck (n.) A check; a stop; a rebuke, or censure to check a reprover..

Suspender :: Suspend (v. i.) To cease from operation or activity; esp., to stop payment, or be unable to meet obligations or engagements (said of a commercial firm or a bank)..

Stop :: Stop (v. t.) To make fast; to stopper.

Cork :: Cork (n.) A stopper for a bottle or cask, cut out of cork..

Head :: Head (v. t.) To go in front of; to get in the front of, so as to hinder or stop; to oppose; hence, to check or restrain; as, to head a drove of cattle; to head a person; the wind heads a ship..

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

Diapason :: Diapason (n.) One of certain stops in the organ, so called because they extend through the scale of the instrument. They are of several kinds, as open diapason, stopped diapason, double diapason, and the like..

Embar :: Embar (v. t.) To stop; to hinder by prohibition; to block up.

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