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Stopple :: 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..

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..

Topping :: Topping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of To.

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..

Boottopping :: Boottopping (n.) Sheathing a vessel with planking over felt.

Polling :: Polling (n.) The act of topping, lopping, or cropping, as trees or hedges..

Topping :: Topping (a.) Rising above; surpassing.

Cut-off :: Cut-off (n.) Any device for stopping or changing a current, as of grain or water in a spout..

Top :: Top (v. i.) To rise aloft; to be eminent; to tower; as, lofty ridges and topping mountains..

Stopped :: 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..

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..

Topping :: Topping (n.) The act of raising one extremity of a spar higher than the other.

Suffocate :: Suffocate (v. t.) To choke or kill by stopping respiration; to stifle; to smother.

Styptic :: Styptic (a.) Producing contraction; stopping bleeding; having the quality of restraining hemorrhage when applied to the bleeding part; astringent.

Stopping-out :: Stopping (n.) A pad or poultice of dung or other material applied to a horse's hoof to keep it moist.

Brake :: Brake (v. t.) A piece of mechanism for retarding or stopping motion by friction, as of a carriage or railway car, by the pressure of rubbers against the wheels, or of clogs or ratchets against the track or roadway, or of a pivoted lever against a wheel or drum in a machine..

Arrest :: Arrest (v. t.) The act of stopping, or restraining from further motion, etc.; stoppage; hindrance; restraint; as, an arrest of development..

Stop :: Stop (n.) The act of stopping, or the state of being stopped; hindrance of progress or of action; cessation; repression; interruption; check; obstruction..

Tap :: Tap (n.) A plug or spile for stopping a hole pierced in a cask, or the like; a faucet..

Slidometer :: Slidometer (n.) An instrument for indicating and recording shocks to railway cars occasioned by sudden stopping.

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