stooper (stoper)

[ stooping (stö'ping), p. a. 1. Leaning; bending forward and downward; hence, bent; bowed: as, stooping shoulders; a stooping figure.-21. Yielding; submi ive. A stooping kind of disposition, clean opposite to contempt. Hooker, Eccles. Polity, vii. 24. 3. In her., swooping or flying downward as if about to strike its prey: noting a hawk used as a bearing. Also spelled stouping. stoopingly (stö'ping-li), adv. In a stooping manner or position; with a bending of the body forward. Sir H. Wotton, Reliquiæ, p. 260. stoop-shouldered (stöp'shōlderd), a. Having a habitual stoop in the shoulders and back. stoor1 (stör), a. [Also stour; early mod. E. also stoore; Sc. stour, stoure, sture, a var. of studding, accom. to stooth.] Studding; battening. stop1 (stop), v.; pret. and pp. stopped, ppr. stop ping. [ IMG:content-2204.jpg:[graphic] He was store man of strenght, stoutest in armes. Destruction of Troy (E. E. T. S.), 1. 3743. On a grene hille he sawe a tre, The savoure of hit was stronge & store . Political Poems , etc. (ed. Furnivall), p. 101. 2. Stiff; hard; harsh. Stoure, rude as course clothe is, gros. Now, to look on the feathers of all manner of birds, you shall see some so low, weak, and short, some so coarse, stoore, and hard, and the ribs so brickle, thin, and narrow, that it can neither be drawn, pared, nor yet will set on. Ascham , Toxophilus (ed. 1864), p. 123. 3. Austere; harsh; severe; violent; turbulent: said of persons or their words or actions. O stronge lady stoore , what dost thow? Chaucer, Merchant's Tale, 1. 1123. Thenne ho gef hym god-day, & wyth a glent lazed, & as ho stod, ho stonyed hym wyth ful stor wordez. Sir Gawayne and the Green Knight (E. E. T. S.), 1. 1291. Stowre of conversacyon, estourdy. 4. Harsh; deep-toned. Hall i well. Ther is an eddre thet is y-hote ine latin aspis, thet is of zuiche kende thet hi stoppeth thet on eare mid erthe, and thet other mid hare tayle, thet hi ne yhere thane charmere. Ayenbite of Inwyt (E. E. T. S.), p. 257. Imperious Cæsar, dead, and turn'd to clay, Might stop a hole to keep the wind away. Shak ., Hamlet, v. 1. 237. Mountains of ice, that stop the imagined way, Beyond Petsora eastward, to the rich Cathaian coast. IMG:content-2205.jpg:[graphic] IMG:content-2206.png:[blocks in formation] [Obsolete or provincial in all uses.] stoor2 (stör), v . [Also stour ; storen , storian , a var. of stýrian = MLG. stō ren , etc., move, stir: see stir1 and steer3 , doublets of stoor2 .] I. in trans. 1. To move; stir. Hall i well . [Obsolete or prov. Eng.] Loke ye store not of that stedd, Whedur y be quyck or dedd. MS . Cantab . Ff. ii. 38, f. 191. ( Hall i well .) 2. To move actively; keep stirring. [Prov. Eng.] -3. To rise up in clouds, as smoke, dust, etc. Hall i well. [Prov. Eng.] IMG:content-2207.png:[blocks in formation] II. trans . 1. To stir up, as liquor. [Prov. Eng. 3. To shut up; inclose; confine. and Scotch.] Hence-2. To pour; especially, to pour leisurely out of any ve el held high. [Scotch.] -3. To sprinkle. Jamie son. [Scotch.] stoor2 (stör), n. [Also stour; An infinite cockneydom of stoor and din. Carlyle , in Froude, i. 161. 2. Dust in motion; hence, also, dust at rest. [Prov. Eng. and Scotch.] Our ancient crown's fa'n in the dust - De'il blin' them wi' the stoure o't. Burns, Awa', Whigs, Awa'. 3. Agush of water. Jamie son; Hall i well (under stour, stowre). [Scotch.] -4. Spray. [Scotch.] -5. A sufficient quantity of yeast for brewing. Hall i well. [Prov. Eng.] stoor3t, n. A Middle English form of store3. stoorey (stö'ri), n. [Cf. stoor2, n., 5.] A mixture of warm beer and oatmeal stirred up with sugar. [Prov. Eng.] stoorne t (stör'nes), n. [Also stourne ; And Troiell, the tru knight, trayturly he slogh, Noght thurgh stowrenes of strokes, ne with strenght one. Destruction of Troy (E. E. T. S.), 1. 10345. stoory (stöʻri), a . [Also stoury , stowry ; stoor2 , n., 2, +-y1.] Dusty. [Scotch.] An aye she took the tither souk, To drouk the stowrie tow. Burns, I Bought my Wife a Stane of Lint. stooth (stöth), n. [Early mod. E. stot he; prob. ME. stode, E. stud, a post, etc.: see stud1.] A stud; a post; a batten. [Obsolete or provincial.] For set tinge in ij. stothes and mendyng the wall of the receiver's chalmer over the stare. Howden Roll (1552), in Fabric Rolls of York Minster, [p. 355. ( E. Peacock .) stooth (stöth), v. t. [ stooth , n.] To lath and and Scotch.] men in New Haven." "(another The Atlantic, LXIV. 557. Forthi yf combes ronke of hony weep, Three dayes stopped up atte home hem [bees] keep. Palladius , Husbondrie (E. E. T. 8.), p. 138. Whatever spirit. leaves the fair at large Shall feel sharp vengeance soon o'ertake his sins, Be stopp'd in vials, or transfix'd with pins. Pope, R. of the L., ii, 126, 4. To hinder from progre or procedure; cause to cease moving, going, acting, working, or the like; impede; check; head off; arrest: as, to stop a car; to stop a ball; to stop a clock; to stop a thief. "How dare you stop my errand?" he says; "My orders you must obey." Child Noryce (Child's Ballads, II. 41). Did they exert themselves to help onward the great movement of the human race, or to stop it? Macaulay , Sir J. Mackintosh. 5. To hold back, as from a specified course, purpose, end, or the like; restrain; hinder: followed by from (obsolete or dialectal of ). No man shall stop me of this boasting. 2 Cor. xi. 10. Thus does he poison, kill, and slay,... Yet stops me o ' my lawfu' prey. Burns , Death and Dr. Hornbook. 6. To prevent the continuance of; suppre ; extinguish; bring to an end: as, to stop a leak. Thei putten here hondes upon his mouthe, and stoppen his Brethe, and so the i sleen him. Mandeville , Travels, p. 201. If there be any love to my deservings Borne by her virtuous self, I cannot stop it. Beau . and Fl ., Knight of Burning Pestle, i. 1. 7. To check or arrest by anticipation. The grief.. that stops his answer. Shak., Lucrece, 1. 1664. Every bold sinner, when about to engage in the commis sion of any known sin, should stop the execution of his purpose with this question: Do I believe that God has denounced death to such a practice, or do I not? South. (Johnson.) 8. To keep back; withhold. Do you mean to stop any of William's wages, about the sack he lost the other day at Hinckley fair? Shak., 2 Hen. IV., v. 1. 24. stop Nor stops, for one bad cork, his butler's pay. Pope , Imit. of Horace, II. ii. 63. 5967 A breach that craves a quick expedient stop ! Shak., 2 Hen. VI., iii. 1. 288. 9. To cease from; discontinue; bring to a stop. (b) An impeding or hindering; obstruction; stoppage. When the crickets stopped their cry, When the owls forbore a term, You heard music; that was I. Browning , Serenade at the Villa. (c) A pause; a stand; a halt. 10. In musical instruments: ( a ) Of the lute and viol cla es, to pre (a string) with the finger so as to shorten its vibrating length, and thus raise the pitch of the tone produced from it. ( b ) Of the wind group generally, to close (a finger-hole in the tube) so as to change the nodes of the vibrating column of air, and thus alter the pitch of the tone. (c) Of wind-instruments of the trumpet cla , to insert the hand into (the bell) so as to shorten the length of the vibrating column of air, and thus to raise the pitch of the tone.-11. Naut., to make fast with a small line: as, to stop a line to a harpoon-staff.-12. To put the stops, or marks of punctuation, in; point, as a written composition; punctuate. If his sentences were properly stopped . Landor . ( Imp . Dict .) 13. In masonry, plastering, etc., to point or dre over (an imperfect or damaged place in a wall) by covering it with cement or plaster.14. In hort., same as top. After the end of July it is not advisable to continue the topping-technically stopping - of the young shoots. Encyc. Brit., XII. 254. 15. To ward off; parry. [Pugilistic slang.] A stopping oystert. See oyster. - Stopping the gla . See gla . To stop a gap. See gap. To stop a line, See line2.- To stop down a lens, in photog., etc., to reduce the amount of light admitted through a lens by using stops or diaphragms. See stop1, n., 12. To stop off. (a) In founding, to fill in (a part of a mold) with sand to prevent metal from running into that part when the casting is made. The form of the casting can frequently be thus changed without the expense of altering a pattern or making a new pattern. (b) In galvanoplastic operations, to apply a varnish to (parts of a plate or object), to prevent the deposit of metal upon the varnished parts during immersion in the gilding or electroplating solution. - Το stop one's mouth, to silence one; especially, to silence one by a sop or bribe. Let repentance stop your mouth ; Learn to redeem your fault. Ford, Lover's Melancholy, iv. 1. If you would have her silent, stop her mouth with that ring. Wycherley, Gentleman Dancing-Master, v. 1. To stop out. (a) In the arts, to protect (a surface, etc.) from chemical or other action by covering with a coating: as, in photography, to cover with paint, paper, etc., as parts of a are not to be printed; in electrotyping, to cover with wax, as parts of the black-leaded mold, to prevent the deposit of copper on those parts; in etching, to cover with a varnish or other resisting composition, as parts of a plate which are not to be bitten by the acid. (b) The at., to cover (some of the teeth) with black wax, so as to make them invisible. =Syn. 1 and 4. To interrupt, block, blockade, barricade, intercept, end.-9. To suspend, intermit. When he took leave now, he made a hundred stops, Desir'd an hour, but half an hour, a minute. Fletcher, Humorous Lieutenant, iii. 1. Mrs. Crummles advancing with that stage walk which consists of a stride and a stop alternately. Dickens, Nicholas Nickle by, xxv. (d) Termination; ending. How kingdoms sprung, and how they made their stop , I well observed. J. Beaumont , Psyche, ii. 49. (e) A stay; a tarrying. Coming to the Corner above Bethlehem Gate, [we] made a stop there, in order to expect the return of our Me enger. Maundrell , Aleppo to Jerusalem, p. 67. 21. A state of hesitation or uncertainty; a stand still. At which sudden question, Martius was a little at a stop. Bacon, Holy War. 3. That which stops or hinders; especially, an obstacle or impediment; specifically, a weir. He that is used to go forward, and findeth a stop, falleth out of his own favour. Bacon, Empire (ed. 1887). IMG:content-2208.png:[blocks in formation] Sir J. Hawkins, in Walton's Complete Angler, p. 274, note. 4. In musical instruments: ( a ) Of the lute and viol cla es, a pre ure on a string so as to shorten its vibrating length, and raise the pitch of its tone. (b) Of wind-instruments, the closing of a finger-hole in the tube so as to alter the pitch of its tone. (c) Of wind-instruments of the trumpet cla , the inserting of the hand into the bell so as to raise the pitch of the tone.5. Any lever or similar device for thus stopping a string or finger-hole. His jesting spirit, which is now crept into a lute-string and now governed by stops , Shak ., Much Ado, iii. 2. 62. In every instrument are all tunes to him that has the skill to find out the stops . Brome , Sparagus Garden, iii. 4. 6. In an organ, a graduated set of pipes of the same kind, and giving tones of the same quality. A complete stop has at least one pipe for each of the keyboard to which it belongs; if a stop has le , it is called a partial stop ; if more, it is called a com pound stop or mixture -stop. The number of pipes constituting a stop varies according to the compa of the key board to which it belongs, the usual number being now sixty-one for manual keyboards, and either twenty-seven or thirty for pedal keyboards, while mixture-stops have between twice and five times as many. Stops are variously cla ified, as follows: ( a ) As to general quality of tone, the principal qualities recognized being the organ -tone (as in the open diapason, the octave, the fifteenth, etc.), the flute -tone (as in the bourdon, the stopped diapason, the melodia, the flute, etc.), the string -tone (as in the viol da gamba, the violin a, the dulciana, etc.), and the reed -tone (as in the oboe, the clarinet, the trumpet, etc.). The first three groups are also called flue - stops, and the last reed stops, from the construction of their pipes (see pipe1, 2). ( b ) As to the pitch of the tones relative to the s used, the two cla es being foundation- and mutation - stops, of which the former give tones exactly corresponding to the normal pitch of the s, while the latter give tones distant from that pitch by some fixed interval, like one, two, or three octaves, or even a twelfth. Foundation-stops are usually called eight -feet stops, because the length of an open pipe sounding the second C below middle Cis Goldsmith, Sentimental Comedy. approximately eight feet; while for an analogous reason II. in trans. 1. To check one's self; leave off; desist; stay; halt; come to a stand or stop, as in walking, speaking, or any other action or procedure. Why stops my lord? shall I not hear my task? Shak., 3 Hen. VI., iii. 2. 52. Terence... always judiciously stops short before he comes to the downright pathetic. No rattling wheels stop short before these gates. Cowper , Task, iv. 144. 2. To discontinue; come to an end; cease to be: as, the noise stopped; an annuity stops. 3. To make a halt or a stay of longer or shorter duration; tarry; remain. We went about half a mile to the east of Tortura, not designing to stop there. Pococke , Description of the East, II. i. 60. Mr. Brontë and old Tabby went to bed.. But Charlotte stopped up. till her weak eyes failed to read or to sew. Mrs. Gaskell , Charlotte Bronte, II. 121. "I would rather stop abed," said I; "what have I to do with fighting?" R. D. Black more , Lorna Doone, lxiv. I've been up country some weeks, stopping with my mother. S. O. Jewett , Deep haven, p. 17. 4. To intercept, ward off, or parry a blow. [Pugilistic slang.] Don't stop with your head too frequently. A. L. Gordon, In Utrumque Paratus. To stop off or over, to make a brief or incidental stay at some point in the course of a journey; lie off or over: also used as a noun or an adjective: as, a stop - over check; the ticket allows a stop - off in Chicago. [Colloq.] - To stop out, to stay out all night, as in the streets, or away from one's proper lodging-place. Mr. Hall, at Bow-street, only says, "Poor boy, let him go." But it's only when we've done no think but stop out that he says that. Mayhew , London Labour and London Poor, II. 563.