Chapter 102

Stom"ach (?), n. [OE. stomak, F. estomac, L. stomachus, fr. Gr. sto`machos stomach, throat, gullet, fr. sto`ma a mouth, any outlet or entrance.] 1. (Anat.) An enlargement, or series of enlargements, in the anterior part of the alimentary canal, in which food is digested; any cavity in which digestion takes place in an animal; a digestive cavity. See Digestion, and Gastric juice, under Gastric.

2. The desire for food caused by hunger; appetite; as, a good stomach for roast beef. Shak.

3. Hence appetite in general; inclination; desire.

He which hath no stomach to this fight, Let him depart.

Shak.

4. Violence of temper; anger; sullenness; resentment; willful obstinacy; stubbornness. [Obs.]

Stern was his look, and full of stomach vain.

Spenser.

This sort of crying proceeding from pride, obstinacy, and stomach, the will, where the fault lies, must be bent.

Locke.

5. Pride; haughtiness; arrogance. [Obs.]

He was a man Of an unbounded stomach.

Shak.

Stomach pump (Med.), a small pump or syringe with a flexible tube, for drawing liquids from the stomach, or for injecting them into it. -- Stomach tube (Med.), a long flexible tube for introduction into the stomach. -- Stomach worm (Zoöl.), the common roundworm (Ascaris lumbricoides) found in the human intestine, and rarely in the stomach.

Stom"ach, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Stomached (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Stomaching.] [Cf. L. stomachari, v.t. & i., to be angry or vexed at a thing.] 1. To resent; to remember with anger; to dislike. Shak.

The lion began to show his teeth, and to stomach the affront.

L'Estrange.

The Parliament sit in that body . . . to be his counselors and dictators, though he stomach it.

Milton.

2. To bear without repugnance; to brook. [Colloq.]

Stom"ach, v. i. To be angry. [Obs.] Hooker.

Stom"ach*al (?), a. [Cf. F. stomacal.] 1. Of or pertaining to the stomach; gastric.

2. Helping the stomach; stomachic; cordial.

Stom"ach*al, n. A stomachic. Dunglison.

Stom"ach*er (?), n. 1. One who stomachs.

2. (&?; or &?;) An ornamental covering for the breast, worn originally both by men and women. Those worn by women were often richly decorated.

A stately lady in a diamond stomacher.

Johnson.

Stom"ach*ful (?), a. Willfully obstinate; stubborn; perverse. [Obs.] -- Stom"ach*ful*ly, adv. [Obs.] -- Stom"ach*ful*ness, n. [Obs.]

{ Sto*mach"ic (?), Sto*mach"ic*al (?), } a. [L. stomachicus, Gr. &?;: cf. F. stomachique.] 1. Of or pertaining to the stomach; as, stomachic vessels.

2. Strengthening to the stomach; exciting the action of the stomach; stomachal; cordial.

Sto*mach"ic, n. (Med.) A medicine that strengthens the stomach and excites its action.

Stom"ach*ing (?), n. Resentment. [Obs.]

Stom"ach*less, a. 1. Being without a stomach.

2. Having no appetite. [R.] Bp. Hall.

Stom"ach*ous (?), a. [L. stomachosus angry, peexish. See Stomach.] Stout; sullen; obstinate. [Obs.]

With stern looks and stomachous disdain.

Spenser.

Stom"ach*y (?), a. Obstinate; sullen; haughty.

A little, bold, solemn, stomachy man, a great professor of piety.

R. L. Stevenson.

Sto"ma*pod (?), n. (Zoöl.) One of the Stomapoda.

||Sto*map"o*da (?), n. pl. [NL. See Stoma, and -poda.] (Zoöl.) An order ||of Crustacea including the squillas. The maxillipeds are leglike in ||form, and the large claws are comblike. They have a large and ||elongated abdomen, which contains a part of the stomach and heart; ||the abdominal appendages are large, and bear the gills. Called also ||Gastrula, Stomatopoda, and Squilloidea.

Sto"mate (?), n. (Bot.) A stoma.

Sto*mat"ic (?), a. (Bot.) Of or pertaining to a stoma; of the nature of a stoma.

Sto*mat"ic, n. [Gr. sto`ma, -atos, mouth.] (Med.) A medicine for diseases of the mouth. Dunglison.

Stom`a*tif"er*ous (?), a. [Gr. sto`ma, -atos mouth + -ferous.] Having or producing stomata.

||Stom`a*ti"tis (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. sto`ma, -atos, mouth + -itis.] ||(Med.) Inflammation of the mouth.

||Stom`a*to"da (?), n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. &?;, &?;, mouth.] (Zoöl.) A ||division of Protozoa in which a mouthlike opening exists.

||Stom`a*to*dæ"um (?), n. (Anat.) Same as Stomodæum.

Stom"a*tode (?), a. (Zoöl.) Having a mouth; -- applied to certain Protozoa. -- n. One of the Stomatoda.

Stom`a*to*gas"tric (?), a. [Gr. &?;, &?;, mouth + E. gastric.] Of or pertaining to the mouth and the stomach; as, the stomatogastric ganglion of certain Mollusca.

Stom`a*to*plas"tic (?), a. [Gr. &?;, &?;, mouth + -plastic.] (Med.) Of or pertaining to the operation of forming a mouth where the aperture has been contracted, or in any way deformed.

Stom"a*to*pod (?), n. (Zoöl.) One of the Stomatopoda.

||Stom`a*top"o*da (?), n. pl. [NL. See Stoma, and -pod.] (Zoöl.) Same ||as Stomapoda.

Stom`a*top"o*dous (?), a. (Zoöl.) Of or pertaining to the Stomatopoda.

Stom"a*to*scope (?), n. [Gr. &?;, &?;, mouth + -scope.] (Med.) An apparatus for examining the interior of the mouth.

Stom"a*tous (?), a. Having a stoma.

||Stom`o*dæ"um (?), n. [NL., from Gr. &?;, &?;, mouth + &?; to divide.] ||1. (Anat.) A part of the alimentary canal. See under Mesenteron.

2. (Zoöl.) The primitive mouth and esophagus of the embryo of annelids and arthropods.

Stomp (?), v. i. [See Stamp.] To stamp with the foot. [Colloq.] "In gallant procession, the priests mean to stomp." R. Browning.

Stond (?), n. [For stand.] 1. Stop; halt; hindrance. [Obs.] Bacon.

2. A stand; a post; a station. [Obs.] Spenser.

Stond, v. i. To stand. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Stone (?), n. [OE. ston, stan, AS. stn; akin to OS. & OFries. stn, D. steen, G. stein, Icel. steinn, Sw. sten, Dan. steen, Goth. stains, Russ. stiena a wall, Gr. &?;, &?;, a pebble. √167. Cf. Steen.] 1. Concreted earthy or mineral matter; also, any particular mass of such matter; as, a house built of stone; the boy threw a stone; pebbles are rounded stones. "Dumb as a stone." Chaucer.

They had brick for stone, and slime . . . for mortar.

Gen. xi. 3.

In popular language, very large masses of stone are called rocks; small masses are called stones; and the finer kinds, gravel, or sand, or grains of sand. Stone is much and widely used in the construction of buildings of all kinds, for walls, fences, piers, abutments, arches, monuments, sculpture, and the like.

2. A precious stone; a gem. "Many a rich stone." Chaucer. "Inestimable stones, unvalued jewels." Shak.

3. Something made of stone. Specifically: -

(a) The glass of a mirror; a mirror. [Obs.]

Lend me a looking-glass; If that her breath will mist or stain the stone, Why, then she lives.

Shak.

(b) A monument to the dead; a gravestone. Gray.

Should some relenting eye Glance on the where our cold relics lie.

Pope.

4. (Med.) A calculous concretion, especially one in the kidneys or bladder; the disease arising from a calculus.

5. One of the testes; a testicle. Shak.

6. (Bot.) The hard endocarp of drupes; as, the stone of a cherry or peach. See Illust. of Endocarp.

7. A weight which legally is fourteen pounds, but in practice varies with the article weighed. [Eng.]

The stone of butchers' meat or fish is reckoned at 8 lbs.; of cheese, 16 lbs.; of hemp, 32 lbs.; of glass, 5 lbs.

8. Fig.: Symbol of hardness and insensibility; torpidness; insensibility; as, a heart of stone.

I have not yet forgot myself to stone.

Pope.

9. (Print.) A stand or table with a smooth, flat top of stone, commonly marble, on which to arrange the pages of a book, newspaper, etc., before printing; -- called also imposing stone.

Stone is used adjectively or in composition with other words to denote made of stone, containing a stone or stones, employed on stone, or, more generally, of or pertaining to stone or stones; as, stone fruit, or stone-fruit; stone-hammer, or stone hammer; stone falcon, or stone-falcon. Compounded with some adjectives it denotes a degree of the quality expressed by the adjective equal to that possessed by a stone; as, stone-dead, stone-blind, stone-cold, stone-still, etc.

Atlantic stone, ivory. [Obs.] "Citron tables, or Atlantic stone." Milton. -- Bowing stone. Same as Cromlech. Encyc. Brit. -- Meteoric stones, stones which fall from the atmosphere, as after the explosion of a meteor. -- Philosopher's stone. See under Philosopher. -- Rocking stone. See Rocking-stone. -- Stone age, a supposed prehistoric age of the world when stone and bone were habitually used as the materials for weapons and tools; -- called also flint age. The bronze age succeeded to this. -- Stone bass (Zoöl.), any one of several species of marine food fishes of the genus Serranus and allied genera, as Serranus Couchii, and Polyprion cernium of Europe; -- called also sea perch. -- Stone biter (Zoöl.), the wolf fish. -- Stone boiling, a method of boiling water or milk by dropping hot stones into it, -- in use among savages. Tylor. -- Stone borer (Zoöl.), any animal that bores stones; especially, one of certain bivalve mollusks which burrow in limestone. See Lithodomus, and Saxicava. -- Stone bramble (Bot.), a European trailing species of bramble (Rubus saxatilis). -- Stone- break. [Cf. G. steinbrech.] (Bot.) Any plant of the genus Saxifraga; saxifrage. -- Stone bruise, a sore spot on the bottom of the foot, from a bruise by a stone. -- Stone canal. (Zoöl.) Same as Sand canal, under Sand. -- Stone cat (Zoöl.), any one of several species of small fresh-water North American catfishes of the genus Noturus. They have sharp pectoral spines with which they inflict painful wounds. -- Stone coal, hard coal; mineral coal; anthracite coal. -- Stone coral (Zoöl.), any hard calcareous coral. -- Stone crab. (Zoöl.) (a) A large crab (Menippe mercenaria) found on the southern coast of the United States and much used as food. (b) A European spider crab (Lithodes maia). Stone crawfish (Zoöl.), a European crawfish (Astacus torrentium), by many writers considered only a variety of the common species (A. fluviatilis). -- Stone curlew. (Zoöl.) (a) A large plover found in Europe (Edicnemus crepitans). It frequents stony places. Called also thick-kneed plover or bustard, and thick-knee. (b) The whimbrel. [Prov. Eng.] (c) The willet. [Local, U.S.] -- Stone crush. Same as Stone bruise, above. -- Stone eater. (Zoöl.) Same as Stone borer, above. -- Stone falcon (Zoöl.), the merlin. -- Stone fern (Bot.), a European fern (Asplenium Ceterach) which grows on rocks and walls. -- Stone fly (Zoöl.), any one of many species of pseudoneuropterous insects of the genus Perla and allied genera; a perlid. They are often used by anglers for bait. The larvæ are aquatic. -- Stone fruit (Bot.), any fruit with a stony endocarp; a drupe, as a peach, plum, or cherry. -- Stone grig (Zoöl.), the mud lamprey, or pride. -- Stone hammer, a hammer formed with a face at one end, and a thick, blunt edge, parallel with the handle, at the other, -- used for breaking stone. -- Stone hawk (Zoöl.), the merlin; -- so called from its habit of sitting on bare stones. -- Stone jar, a jar made of stoneware. -- Stone lily (Paleon.), a fossil crinoid. -- Stone lugger. (Zoöl.) See Stone roller, below. -- Stone marten (Zoöl.), a European marten (Mustela foina) allied to the pine marten, but having a white throat; -- called also beech marten. -- Stone mason, a mason who works or builds in stone. -- Stone-mortar (Mil.), a kind of large mortar formerly used in sieges for throwing a mass of small stones short distances. -- Stone oil, rock oil, petroleum. -- Stone parsley (Bot.), an umbelliferous plant (Seseli Labanotis). See under Parsley. -- Stone pine. (Bot.) A nut pine. See the Note under Pine, and Piñon. -- Stone pit, a quarry where stones are dug. -- Stone pitch, hard, inspissated pitch. -- Stone plover. (Zoöl.) (a) The European stone curlew. (b) Any one of several species of Asiatic plovers of the genus Esacus; as, the large stone plover (E. recurvirostris). (c) The gray or black- bellied plover. [Prov. Eng.] (d) The ringed plover. (e) The bar-tailed godwit. [Prov. Eng.] Also applied to other species of limicoline birds. -- Stone roller. (Zoöl.) (a) An American fresh-water fish (Catostomus nigricans) of the Sucker family. Its color is yellowish olive, often with dark blotches. Called also stone lugger, stone toter, hog sucker, hog mullet. (b) A common American cyprinoid fish (Campostoma anomalum); -- called also stone lugger. -- Stone's cast, or Stone's throw, the distance to which a stone may be thrown by the hand. -- Stone snipe (Zoöl.), the greater yellowlegs, or tattler. [Local, U.S.] -- Stone toter. (Zoöl.) (a) See Stone roller (a), above. (b) A cyprinoid fish (Exoglossum maxillingua) found in the rivers from Virginia to New York. It has a three-lobed lower lip; -- called also cutlips. -- To leave no stone unturned, to do everything that can be done; to use all practicable means to effect an object.

Stone (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Stoned (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Stoning.] [From Stone, n.: cf. AS. st&?;nan, Goth. stainjan.] 1. To pelt, beat, or kill with stones.

And they stoned Stephen, calling upon God, and saying, Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.

Acts vii. 59.

2. To make like stone; to harden.

O perjured woman! thou dost stone my heart.

Shak.

3. To free from stones; also, to remove the seeds of; as, to stone a field; to stone cherries; to stone raisins.

4. To wall or face with stones; to line or fortify with stones; as, to stone a well; to stone a cellar.

5. To rub, scour, or sharpen with a stone.

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Stone"bird` (?), n. The yellowlegs; -- called also stone snipe. See Tattler, 2. [Local, U.S.]

Stone"-blind` (?), a. As blind as a stone; completely blind.

Stone"bow` (?), n. A kind of crossbow formerly used for shooting stones. Shak.

Stone"brash` (?), n. A subsoil made up of small stones or finely-broken rock; brash.

Stone"brear`er (?), n. A machine for crushing or hammering stone. Knight.

Stone"buck` (?), n. (Zoöl.) See Steinbock.

Stone"chat` (?), n. [Stone + chat.] [So called from the similarity of its alarm note to the clicking together of two pebbles.] (Zoöl.) (a) A small, active, and very common European singing bird (Pratincola rubicola); -- called also chickstone, stonechacker, stonechatter, stoneclink, stonesmith. (b) The wheatear. (c) The blue titmouse.

The name is sometimes applied to various species of Saxicola, Pratincola, and allied genera; as, the pied stonechat of India (Saxicola picata).

Stone"-cold` (?), a. Cold as a stone.

Stone-cold without, within burnt with love's flame.

Fairfax.

Stone"cray` (?), n. [Stone + F. craie chalk, L. creta.] A distemper in hawks.

Stone"crop` (?), n. [AS. stncropp.] 1. A sort of tree. [Obs.] Mortimer.

2. (Bot.) Any low succulent plant of the genus Sedum, esp. Sedum acre, which is common on bare rocks in Europe, and is spreading in parts of America. See Orpine.

Virginian, or Ditch, stonecrop, an American plant (Penthorum sedoides).

Stone"cut`ter (?), n. One whose occupation is to cut stone; also, a machine for dressing stone.

Stone"cut`ting (?), n. Hewing or dressing stone.

Stone"-dead` (?), a. As dead as a stone.

Stone"-deaf` (?), a. As deaf as a stone; completely deaf.

Stone"gall` (?), n. [Cf. D. steengal, G. steingall. See Stannel.] (Zoöl.) See Stannel. [Prov. Eng.]

Stone"hatch` (?), n. (Zoöl.) The ring plover, or dotterel. [Prov. Eng.]

Stone"-heart`ed (?), a. Hard- hearted; cruel; pitiless; unfeeling.

Stone"henge (?), n. An assemblage of upright stones with others placed horizontally on their tops, on Salisbury Plain, England, -- generally supposed to be the remains of an ancient Druidical temple.

Stone"-horse` (?), n. Stallion. [Obs.] Mortimer.

Ston"er (?), n. 1. One who stones; one who makes an assault with stones.

2. One who walls with stones.

Stone"root` (?), n. (Bot.) A North American plant (Collinsonia Canadensis) having a very hard root; horse balm. See Horse balm, under Horse.

Stone"run`ner (?), n. (Zoöl.) (a) The ring plover, or the ringed dotterel. [Prov. Eng.] (b) The dotterel. [Prov. Eng.]

Stone"smic`kle (?), n. (Zoöl.) The stonechat; -- called also stonesmitch. [Prov. Eng.]

Stone"-still` (?), a. As still as a stone. Shak.

Stone"ware` (?), n. A species of coarse potter's ware, glazed and baked.

Stone"weed` (?), n. (Bot.) Any plant of the genus Lithospermum, herbs having a fruit composed of four stony nutlets.

Stone"work` (?), n. Work or wall consisting of stone; mason's work of stone. Mortimer.

Stone"wort` (?), n. (Bot.) Any plant of the genus Chara; -- so called because they are often incrusted with carbonate of lime. See Chara.

Ston"i*ly (?), adv. In a stony manner.

Ston"i*ness, n. The quality or state of being stony.

Ston"ish, a. Stony. [R.] "Possessed with stonish insensibility." Robynson (More's Utopia).

Stont (?), obs. 3d pers. sing. present of Stand.

Ston"y (?), a. [Compar. Stonier (?); superl. Stoniest.] [AS. stnig. See Stone.] 1. Of or pertaining to stone, consisting of, or abounding in, stone or stones; resembling stone; hard; as, a stony tower; a stony cave; stony ground; a stony crust.

2. Converting into stone; petrifying; petrific.

The stony dart of senseless cold.

Spenser.

3. Inflexible; cruel; unrelenting; pitiless; obdurate; perverse; cold; morally hard; appearing as if petrified; as, a stony heart; a stony gaze.

Stony coral. (Zoöl.) Same as Stone coral, under Stone.

Stood (?), imp. & p. p. of Stand.

Stook (?), n. [Scot. stook, stouk; cf. LG. stuke a heap, bundle, G. stauche a truss, bundle of flax.] (Agric.) A small collection of sheaves set up in the field; a shock; in England, twelve sheaves.

Stook, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Stooked (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Stooking.] (Agric.) To set up, as sheaves of grain, in stooks.

Stool (?), n. [L. stolo. See Stolon.] (Hort.) A plant from which layers are propagated by bending its branches into the soil. P. Henderson.

Stool, v. i. (Agric.) To ramfy; to tiller, as grain; to shoot out suckers. R. D. Blackmore.

Stool (?), n. [AS. stl a seat; akin to OFries. & OS. stl, D. stoel, G. stuhl, OHG. stuol, Icel. stll, Sw. & Dan. stol, Goth. stls, Lith. stalas a table, Russ. stol'; from the root of E. stand. &radic;163. See Stand, and cf. Fauteuil.] 1. A single seat with three or four legs and without a back, made in various forms for various uses.

2. A seat used in evacuating the bowels; hence, an evacuation; a discharge from the bowels.

3. A stool pigeon, or decoy bird. [U. S.]

4. (Naut.) A small channel on the side of a vessel, for the dead-eyes of the backstays. Totten.

5. A bishop's seat or see; a bishop- stool. J. P. Peters.

6. A bench or form for resting the feet or the knees; a footstool; as, a kneeling stool.

7. Material, such as oyster shells, spread on the sea bottom for oyster spat to adhere to. [Local, U.S.]

Stool of a window, or Window stool (Arch.), the flat piece upon which the window shuts down, and which corresponds to the sill of a door; in the United States, the narrow shelf fitted on the inside against the actual sill upon which the sash descends. This is called a window seat when broad and low enough to be used as a seat. -- Stool of repentance, the cuttystool. [Scot.] -- Stool pigeon, a pigeon used as a decoy to draw others within a net; hence, a person used as a decoy for others.

Stool"ball` (?), n. A kind of game with balls, formerly common in England, esp. with young women.

Nausicaa With other virgins did at stoolball play.

Chapman.

Stoom (?), v. t. [D. stommen to adulterate, to drug (wine). &radic;163. Cf. Stum.] To stum. [R.]

Stoop (?), n. [D. stoep.] (Arch.) Originally, a covered porch with seats, at a house door; the Dutch stoep as introduced by the Dutch into New York. Afterward, an out-of-door flight of stairs of from seven to fourteen steps, with platform and parapets, leading to an entrance door some distance above the street; the French perron. Hence, any porch, platform, entrance stairway, or small veranda, at a house door. [U. S.]

Stoop, n. [OE. stope, Icel. staup; akin to AS. steáp, D. stoop, G. stauf, OHG. stouph.] A vessel of liquor; a flagon. [Written also stoup.]

Fetch me a stoop of liquor.

Shak.

Stoop, n. [Cf. Icel. staup a knobby lump.] A post fixed in the earth. [Prov. Eng.]

Stoop, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Stooped (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Stooping.] [OE. stoupen; akin to AS. st&?;pian, OD. stuypen, Icel. stpa, 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 aëry 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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

{ Stoor (?), Stor (?) }, a. [AS. str; akin to LG. stur, Icel. strr.] Strong; powerful; hardy; bold; audacious. [Obs. or Scot.]

O stronge lady stoor, what doest thou?

Chaucer.

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.