stoothing

[Etym. doubtful.] Arch.: A provincial term for battening. stop, *stoppe, v . t . & i . [A. S. stoppian ; cogn. with Dut. stoppen to fill, to stuff, to stop; Sw. stoppa ; Dan. stoppe ; Ger. stopfen ; Ital. stoppare , from Low Lat. stupo to stop up with tow, to stop, from Lat. stupa, stuppa tow; Gr. stype , styppe ; O. Sp. estopar ; Fr. étouper .] IMG:content-0356.png:[blocks in formation] "She cut off her sho sole, And stopped therewith the hole." Skelton: Elinour Rumming. 2. To stanch or cause to coase bleeding. "Have by some surgeon To stop his wounds, lest he do bleed to death." Shakesp.. Merchant of Venice, iv. 1. *3. To fill entirely. " Stopping my greedy ear with their bold deeds." Shakesp.: Henry IV., Pt . II ., i. 1. 4. To obstruct; to render impa able. "Sad Creusa stopp'd my way." Dryden Virgil's Æneid , ii. 916. 5. To impede: to stand or set one's self in the way of; to arrest the progre of; to prevent from prog re or pa age. "He stopped the fliers.' Shakesp.: Coriolanus , ii. 2. 3872 6. To cause to cease working or acting; as, to stop an engine. 7. To restrain, to hinder; to suspend the action of; as, to stop the execution of a decree. 8. To leave off, to desist from; as, You must stop that habit. 9. To repre , to suppre ; to put down, to finish. "Send succours and stop the rage betime." Shakesp.: Henry VI ., Pt . II . , iii. 1. 10. To check or hinder in utterance; to silence. "We shall stop her exclamation." Shakesp.: King John, ii. IMG:content-0357.png:[blocks in formation] 13. To keep back and refuse to pay; to deduct. "Do you mean to stop any of William's wages?" Shakesp .: Henry IV., Pt. II ., v. 1. 14. To regulate the sound of by pre ure with the finger or otherwise; as, to stop a string. †15. To point, to set with stops, to punctuate; as, to stop a sentence. II. Naut .: To make fast; to stopper. B. Intransitive : 1. To cease to go forward; to stand still; to come to a stop. "He bites his lips, and starts; Stops on a sudden, looks upon the ground, Then lays his finger on his temple; straight Springs out into fast gait, then stops again." Shakesp.: Henry VIII., iii. 2. 2. To cease from any motion, habit, practice, or course of action. "Encroachments are made by degrees from one step to another; and the best time to stop is at the beginning." Lesley. 3. To remain; to stay or reside temporarily; to put up, to have lodgings. stoppage length gives the note cc, the lowest note on the manuals of a modern organ; it is customary, therefore, to write on stop-handles the length of the longest pipe of the series, thus informing the player of the pitch of the stop, e. g ., double diapason, 16 ft.; open diapason, 8 ft.; stopped diapason, 8 ft. tone (4 ft. stopped); octave or principal, 4 ft.; flute, 4 ft. tone, . The 8 ft. flue-stops constitute the foundation stops. Stops containing more than one rank of pipes, such as mixture, sesquialtera, ., are called compound stops. Stops sounding the interval of a twelfth, or tierce (and sometimes also the octave and the fifteenth), are called Mutation stops. 3. Naut .: A projection at the upper part of a mast, outside of the cheeks. 4. Optics : A perforated diaphragm between two lenses, to intercept the extreme rays that might disturb the perfection of the image. stop-cock, subst. A faucet in a pipe, to open or close the pa age.