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Stoop <Xpage=1419>

Stoop , v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Stooped (?) ; p. pr. & vb. n. Stooping .] [OE. stoupen ; akin to AS. st<?/pian , OD. stuypen , Icel. st&umac;pa , Sw. stupa to fall, to tilt. Cf 5th Steep .] 1. To bend the upper part of the body downward and forward; to bend or lean forward; to incline forward in standing or walking; to assume habitually a bent position.

2. To yield; to submit; to bend, as by compulsion; to assume a position of humility or subjection.

Mighty in her ships stood Carthage long, . . . Yet stooped to Rome, less wealthy, but more strong. Dryden.

These are arts, my prince, In which your Zama does not stoop to Rome. Addison.

3. To descend from rank or dignity; to condescend. "She stoops to conquer."

Goldsmith.

Where men of great wealth stoop to husbandry, it multiplieth riches exceedingly. Bacon.

4. To come down as a hawk does on its prey; to pounce; to souse; to swoop.

The bird of Jove, stooped from his a\'89ry tour, Two birds of gayest plume before him drove. Milton.

5. To sink when on the wing; to alight.

And stoop with closing pinions from above. Dryden.

Cowering low With blandishment, each bird stooped on his wing. Milton.

Syn. -- To lean; yield; submit; condescend; descend; cower; shrink.

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Stoop , v. t. 1. To bend forward and downward; to bow down; as, to stoop the body . "Have stooped my neck."

Shak.

2. To cause to incline downward; to slant; as, to stoop a cask of liquor .

3. To cause to submit; to prostrate. [Obs.]

Many of those whose states so tempt thine ears Are stooped by death; and many left alive. Chapman.

4. To degrade. [Obs.]

Shak.

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Stoop , n. 1. The act of stooping, or bending the body forward; inclination forward; also, an habitual bend of the back and shoulders.

2. Descent, as from dignity or superiority; condescension; an act or position of humiliation.

Can any loyal subject see With patience such a stoop from sovereignty? Dryden.

3. The fall of a bird on its prey; a swoop.

L'Estrange.

Stooper <Xpage=1419>

Stoop"er (?) , n. One who stoops.

Stooping <Xpage=1419>

Stoop"ing , a. & n. from Stoop . -- Stoop"ing*ly , adv.

Stoor <Xpage=1419>

Stoor (?) , v. i. [Cf. D. storen to disturb. Cf. Stir .] To rise in clouds, as dust. [Prov. Eng.]

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Stoor (?) , Stor (?) , a. [AS. st\'d3r ; akin to LG. stur , Icel. st\'d3rr .] Strong; powerful; hardy; bold; audacious. [Obs. or Scot.]

O stronge lady stoor , what doest thou? Chaucer.

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Stop (?) , v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Stopped (?) ; p. pr. & vb. n. Stopping .] [OE. stoppen , AS. stoppian (in comp.); akin to LG. & D. stoppen , G. stopfen , Icel. stoppa , Sw. stoppa , Dan. stoppe ; all probably fr. LL. stopare , stupare , fr. L. stuppa the coarse part of flax, tow, oakum. Cf. Estop , Stuff , Stupe a fomentation.] 1. To close, as an aperture, by filling or by obstructing; as, to stop the ears ; hence, to stanch, as a wound.

Shak.

2. To obstruct; to render impassable; as, to stop a way, road, or passage .

3. To arrest the progress of; to hinder; to impede; to shut in; as, to stop a traveler; to stop the course of a stream, or a flow of blood .

4. To hinder from acting or moving; to prevent the effect or efficiency of; to cause to cease; to repress; to restrain; to suppress; to interrupt; to suspend; as, to stop the execution of a decree, the progress of vice, the approaches of old age or infirmity .

Whose disposition all the world well knows Will not be rubbed nor stopped . Shak.

5. (Mus.) To regulate the sounds of, as musical strings, by pressing them against the finger board with the finger, or by shortening in any way the vibrating part.

6. To point, as a composition; to punctuate. [R.]

If his sentences were properly stopped . Landor.

7. (Naut.) To make fast; to stopper.

Syn. -- To obstruct; hinder; impede; repress; suppress; restrain; discontinue; delay; interrupt.

To stop off (Founding) , to fill (a part of a mold) with sand, where a part of the cavity left by the pattern is not wanted for the casting. -- To stop the mouth . See under Mouth .

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Stop (?) , v. i. 1. To cease to go on; to halt, or stand still; to come to a stop.

He bites his lip, and starts; Stops on a sudden, looks upon the ground; Then lays his finger on his temple: strait Springs out into fast gait; then stops again. Shak.

2. To cease from any motion, or course of action.

Stop , while ye may, suspend your mad career! Cowper.

3. To spend a short time; to reside temporarily; to stay; to tarry; as, to stop with a friend . [Colloq.]

By stopping at home till the money was gone. R. D. Blackmore.

To stop over , to stop at a station beyond the time of the departure of the train on which one came, with the purpose of continuing one's journey on a subsequent train; to break one's journey. [Railroad Cant, U.S.] <-- or on an airplane flight. See stopover --> <-- To stop off, to make a brief visit -->

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Stop , n. 1. The act of stopping, or the state of being stopped; hindrance of progress or of action; cessation; repression; interruption; check; obstruction.

It is doubtful . . . whether it contributed anything to the stop of the infection. De Foe.

Occult qualities put a stop to the improvement of natural philosophy. Sir I. Newton.

It is a great step toward the mastery of our desires to give this stop to them. Locke.

2. That which stops, impedes, or obstructs; as obstacle; an impediment; an obstruction.

A fatal stop traversed their headlong course. Daniel.

So melancholy a prospect should inspire us with zeal to oppose some stop to the rising torrent. Rogers.

3. (Mach.) A device, or piece, as a pin, block, pawl, etc., for arresting or limiting motion, or for determining the position to which another part shall be brought.

4. (Mus.) (a) The closing of an aperture in the air passage, or pressure of the finger upon the string, of an instrument of music, so as to modify the tone; hence, any contrivance by which the sounds of a musical instrument are regulated.

The organ sound a time survives the stop . Daniel.

(b) In the organ, one of the knobs or handles at each side of the organist, by which he can draw on or shut off any register or row of pipes; the register itself; as, the vox humana stop .

5. (Arch.) A member, plain or molded, formed of a separate piece and fixed to a jamb, against which a door or window shuts. This takes the place, or answers the purpose, of a rebate. Also, a pin or block to prevent a drawer from sliding too far.

6. A point or mark in writing or printing intended to distinguish the sentences, parts of a sentence, or clauses; a mark of punctuation. See Punctuation .

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

8. (Zo\'94l.) The depression in the face of a dog between the skull and the nasal bones. It is conspicuous in the bulldog, pug, and some other breeds.

9. (Phonetics) Some part of the articulating organs, as the lips, or the tongue and palate, closed (a) so as to cut off the passage of breath or voice through the mouth and the nose (distinguished as a lip-stop , or a front-stop , etc., as in p , t , d , etc.), or (b) so as to obstruct, but not entirely cut off, the passage, as in l , n , etc.; also, any of the consonants so formed.

H. Sweet.

Stop bead (Arch.) , the molding screwed to the inner side of a window frame, on the face of the pulley stile, completing the groove in which the inner sash is to slide. -- Stop motion (Mach.) , an automatic device for arresting the motion of a machine, as when a certain operation is completed, or when an imperfection occurs in its performance or product, or in the material which is supplied to it, etc. -- Stop plank , one of a set of planks employed to form a sort of dam in some hydraulic works. -- Stop valve , a valve that can be closed or opened at will, as by hand, for preventing or regulating flow, as of a liquid in a pipe; -- in distinction from a valve which is operated by the action of the fluid it restrains. -- Stop watch , a watch the hands of which can be stopped in order to tell exactly the time that has passed, as in timing a race. See Independent seconds watch , under Independent , a.

Syn. -- Cessation; check; obstruction; obstacle; hindrance; impediment; interruption.

Stopcock <Xpage=1419>

Stop"cock` (?) , n. 1. A bib, faucet, or short pipe, fitted with a turning stopper or plug for permitting or restraining the flow of a liquid or gas; a cock or valve for checking or regulating the flow of water, gas, etc., through or from a pipe, etc.

2. The turning plug, stopper, or spigot of a faucet. [R.]

Stope <Xpage=1419>

Stope (?) , n. [Cf. Step , n. & v. i. ] (Mining) A horizontal working forming one of a series, the working faces of which present the appearance of a flight of steps.

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Stope , v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Stoped (?) ; p. pr. & vb. n. Stoping .] (Mining) (a) To excavate in the form of stopes. (b) To fill in with rubbish, as a space from which the ore has been worked out.

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Stope, Stopen <Xpage=1420>

Stope (?) , Sto"pen (?) , p. p. of Step . Stepped; gone; advanced. [Obs.]

A poor widow, somedeal stope in age. Chaucer.

Stop-gap <Xpage=1420>

Stop"-gap` (?) , n. That which closes or fills up an opening or gap; hence, a temporary expedient.

Moral prejudices are the stop-gaps of virtue. Hare.

Stoping <Xpage=1420>

Stop"ing (?) , n. (Mining) The act of excavating in the form of stopes.

Stopless <Xpage=1420>

Stop"less (?) , a. Not to be stopped.

Davenant.

Stop-over <Xpage=1420>

Stop"-o`ver (?) , a. Permitting one to stop over; as, a stop-over check or ticket . See To stop over , under Stop , v. i. [Railroad Cant, U.S.]

Stoppage <Xpage=1420>

Stop"page (?) , 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.

Stopped <Xpage=1420>

Stopped (?) , a. (Phonetics) Made by complete closure of the mouth organs; shut; -- said of certain consonants ( p , b , t , d , etc.).

H. Sweet.

<-- glottal stop? -->

Stopper <Xpage=1420>

Stop"per (?) , n. 1. One who stops, closes, shuts, or hinders; that which stops or obstructs; that which closes or fills a vent or hole in a vessel.

2. (Naut.) A short piece of rope having a knot at one or both ends, with a lanyard under the knot, -- used to secure something.

Totten.

3. (Bot.) A name to several trees of the genus Eugenia, found in Florida and the West Indies; as, the red stopper . See Eugenia .

C. S. Sargent.

Ring stopper (Naut.) , a short rope or chain passing through the anchor ring, to secure the anchor to the cathead. -- Stopper bolt (Naut.) , a large ringbolt in a ship's deck, to which the deck stoppers are hooked.

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Stop"per , v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Stoppered (?) ; p. pr. & vb. n. Stoppering .] To close or secure with a stopper.

Stopping <Xpage=1420>

Stop"ping (?) , n. 1. Material for filling a cavity.

2. (Mining) A partition or door to direct or prevent a current of air.

3. (Far.) A pad or poultice of dung or other material applied to a horse's hoof to keep it moist.

Youatt.

Stopping-out <Xpage=1420>

Stop"ping-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.

Stopple <Xpage=1420>

Stop"ple (?) , n. [Cf. G. st\'94pfel , st\'94psel . See Stop , n. & v. t. ] That which stops or closes the mouth of a vessel; a stopper; as, a glass stopple ; a cork stopple .

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Stop"ple , v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Stoppled (?) ; p. pr. & vb. n. Stoppling .] To close the mouth of anything with a stopple, or as with a stopple.

Cowper.

Stopship <Xpage=1420>

Stop"ship` (?) , n. (Zo\'94l.) A remora. It was fabled to stop ships by attaching itself to them.

Sylvester.

Stor <Xpage=1420>

Stor (?) , a. See Stoor . [Obs.]

Chaucer.

Storage <Xpage=1420>

Stor"age (?) , n. 1. The act of depositing in a store or warehouse for safe keeping; also, the safe keeping of goods in a warehouse.

2. Space for the safe keeping of goods.

3. The price changed for keeping goods in a store.

Storage battery . (Physics) See the Note under Battery .

Storax <Xpage=1420>

Sto"rax (?) , n. [L. storax , styrax , Gr. <?/. Cf. Styrax .] Any one of a number of similar complex resins obtained from the bark of several trees and shrubs of the Styrax family. The most common of these is liquid storax , a brown or gray semifluid substance of an agreeable aromatic odor and balsamic taste, sometimes used in perfumery, and in medicine as an expectorant.

&hand; A yellow aromatic honeylike substance, resembling, and often confounded with, storax, is obtained from the American sweet gum tree ( Liquidambar styraciflua ), and is much used as a chewing gum, called sweet gum , and liquid storax . Cf. Liquidambar .

Store <Xpage=1420>

Store (?) , n. [OE. stor , stoor , OF. estor , provisions, supplies, fr. estorer to store. See Store , v. t. ] 1. That which is accumulated, or massed together; a source from which supplies may be drawn; hence, an abundance; a great quantity, or a great number.

The ships are fraught with store of victuals. Bacon.

With store of ladies, whose bright eyes Rain influence, and give the prize. Milton.

2. A place of deposit for goods, esp. for large quantities; a storehouse; a warehouse; a magazine.

3. Any place where goods are sold, whether by wholesale or retail; a shop. [U.S. & British Colonies]

4. pl. Articles, especially of food, accumulated for some specific object; supplies, as of provisions, arms, ammunition, and the like; as, the stores of an army, of a ship, of a family .

His swine, his horse, his stoor , and his poultry. Chaucer.

In store , in a state of accumulation; in keeping; hence, in a state of readiness. "I have better news in store for thee." Shak . -- Store clothes , clothing purchased at a shop or store; -- in distinction from that which is home-made . [Colloq. U.S.] -- Store pay , payment for goods or work in articles from a shop or store, instead of money. [U.S.] -- To set store by , to value greatly; to have a high appreciation of. -- To tell no store of , to make no account of; to consider of no importance.

Syn. -- Fund; supply; abundance; plenty; accumulation; provision. -- Store , Shop . The English call the place where goods are sold (however large or splendid it may be) a shop , and confine the word store to its original meaning; viz., a warehouse, or place where goods are stored . In America the word store is applied to all places, except the smallest, where goods are sold. In some British colonies the word store is used as in the United States. <-- also syn. = stock -->

In his needy shop a tortoise hung, An alligator stuffed, and other skins Of ill-shaped fishes; and about his shelves A beggarly account of empty boxes. Shak.

Sulphurous and nitrous foam, . . . Concocted and adjusted, they reduced To blackest grain, and into store conveyed. Milton.

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Store , a. Accumulated; hoarded.

Bacon.

Store <Xpage=1420>

Store (?) , v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Stored (?) ; p. pr. & vb. n. Storing .] [OE. storen , OF. estorer to construct, restore, store, LL. staurare , for L. instaurare to renew, restore; in + staurare (in comp.) Cf. Instore , Instaurate , Restore , Story a floor.] 1. To collect as a reserved supply; to accumulate; to lay away.

Dora stored what little she could save. Tennyson.

2. To furnish; to supply; to replenish; esp., to stock or furnish against a future time.

Her mind with thousand virtues stored . Prior.

Wise Plato said the world with men was stored . Denham.

Having stored a pond of four acres with carps, tench, and other fish. Sir M. Hale.

3. To deposit in a store, warehouse, or other building, for preservation; to warehouse; as, to store goods .

Stored <Xpage=1420>

Stored (?) , a. Collected or accumulated as a reserve supply; as, stored electricity .

It is charged with stored virtue. Bagehot.

Storehouse <Xpage=1420>

Store"house` (?) , n. 1. A building for keeping goods of any kind, especially provisions; a magazine; a repository; a warehouse.

Joseph opened all the storehouses , and sold unto Egyptians. Gen. xli. 56.

The Scripture of God is a storehouse abounding with estimable treasures of wisdom and knowledge. Hooker.

2. A mass or quality laid up. [Obs.]

Spenser.

Storekeeper <Xpage=1420>

Store"keep`er (?) , n. 1. A man in charge of stores or goods of any kind; as, a naval storekeeper .

2. One who keeps a "store;" a shopkeeper. See 1st Store , 3. [U. S.]

Storer <Xpage=1420>

Stor"er (?) , n. One who lays up or forms a store.

Storeroom <Xpage=1420>

Store"room` (?) , n. Room in a storehouse or repository; a room in which articles are stored.

Storeship <Xpage=1420>

Store"ship` (?) , n. A vessel used to carry naval stores for a fleet, garrison, or the like.

Storey <Xpage=1420>

Sto"rey (?) , n. See Story .