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t. & i. Steel Engraving : (See extract.) "If variation of tone and a difference of force in the lines is required, as is usually the case, the more delicate portions of the sketch are stopped - out , that is, covered by varnish so that they shall not be affected by any subse quent exposure in the bath. The plate is again immersed, and the proce of stor ping -out repeated."- Scribner's Magazine, Aug., 1880, p. 086. stop, *stoppe, s. [STOP, v .] I. Ordinary Language : 1. The act of stopping; the state of being stopped; ce ation of progre ive motion. 2. Hindrance of progre , action, or operation: pause, interruption. "These stops of thine fright me." Shakesp.: Othello, iii. 3. IMG:content-0359.png:[blocks in formation] *5. A state of embarra ment or perplexity. "Martius was a little at a stop ."-Bacon: Holy War. 6. A point or mark in writing, intended to distinguish the sentences, parts of a sentence, or clauses, and to show the proper pauses in reading; a punctuation mark. [PUNCTUATION.] II. Technically : 1. Joinery: One of the pieces of wood nailed on the frame of a door to form the rece or rebate into which the door shuts. 2. Music : (1) The pre ure by the fingers of the strings upon the fingerboard of a stringed instrument. (2) A fret upon a guitar or similar instrument; a vent-hole in a wind instrument. "Teaching every stop and key To those upon the pipe that play." Drayton: Muses Elysium; Nymph. iv. (3) The handle and leverage which act upon the rows of pipes in an organ; a register. of a lock or weir, to hold back water in case of temporary disorder of the lock-gates. stop-ship, s. The Remora (q. v.). stop-valve, s. 1. Hydr .: A valve which closes a pipe against the pa age of fluid. The large valve used in water mains.s known by this name. It is usually a disk which occupies a chamber above the pipe when the pa age-way through the latter is open, and is driven down by a screw to stop the aperture, its face being pre ed against the seat by the contact of the rear with wedging abutments. 2 Steam-eng.: Valves fitted in the steam-pipes where they leave the several boilers, and in the connecting-pipes between the boilers, in such a manner that any boiler or boilers may be shut off from the others, and from the engines.