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n. 1. In baseball, a fence, prop. at least 90 feet behind the home base, to stop the balls that pass the catcher; also, the catcher himself. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

2. In rounders, the player who stands immediately behind the striking base. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

3. In cricket, the longstop; also, the wicket keeper. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ Gr. blasto`s sprout + &unr_; to bear. ] (Biol.) That portion of the spermatospore which is not converted into spermatoblasts, but carries them. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. Relating to the blastophore. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. blasto`s sprout + E. pore. ] (Biol.) The pore or opening leading into the cavity of invagination, or archenteron. [ See Illust. of Invagination. ] Balfour. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. of or pertaining to a blastopore. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Christ + Gr. &unr_; to show. ] An appearance of Christ, as to his disciples after the crucifixion. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_;&unr_;&unr_;&unr_; bladder + &unr_;&unr_;&unr_; to form. ] (Biol.) A nucleated cell having an envelope or cell wall, as a red blood corpuscle or an epithelial cell; a cell concerned in growth. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Carp.) The block or strip of wood or similar material which stops, at the right place, the shutting of a door; any object used to stop open doors from moving. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. same as doorstop.
Syn. -- doorstop. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ a British trademark. ] an elastic bandage. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Estophed p. pr. & vb. n. Estopping. ] [ OF. estoper to stop, plug, close, F. étouper, LL. stuppare to close with tow, obstruct, fr. L. stuppa tow, oakum, cf. Gr. sty`pph. Cf. Stop. ] (Law) To impede or bar by estoppel. [ 1913 Webster ]

A party will be estopped by his admissions, where his intent is to influence another, or derive an advantage to himself. Abbott. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From Estop. ] (Law) (a) A stop; an obstruction or bar to one's alleging or denying a fact contrary to his own previous action, allegation, or denial; an admission, by words or conduct, which induces another to purchase rights, against which the party making such admission can not take a position inconsistent with the admission. (b) The agency by which the law excludes evidence to dispute certain admissions, which the policy of the law treats as indisputable. Wharton. Stephen. Burrill. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An intersection of two roads having stop signs at all four entry points. The usual rule for such intersections requires that those entering the intersection yield the right of way to vehicles entering before them. [ PJC ]

n. [ Gr. "isto`s tissue + Gr. &unr_; clan.] (Biol.) The tribal history of cells, a division of morphophyly. Haeckel. [1913 Webster]

v. t. To stop; to close; to make fast; as, to instop the seams. [ Obs. ] Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Cricket) One who is set to stop balls which pass the wicket keeper. [ 1913 Webster ]

ety>[ Written Mephostophilus in Shakespeare, Fletcher etc., Mephostophilis in Marlowe, but now generally Mephistopheles, as in Goethe: a made-up name, like most of the names of the medieval devils, but supposed by some to be formed (irregularly) from Gr. mh`, not, fw^s (fwt-), light, and fi`los, loving. ] A familiar spirit mentioned in the old legend of Sir John Faustus, and a principal agent in Marlowe's play Dr. Faustus and in Goethe's Faust. In medieval demonology, he was one of the seven chief devils. [ Century Dictionary 1906 ]

He is frequently referred to as “the Devil, ” but it was well understood that he was only a devil. Goethe took only the name and a few circumstances connected with the first appearance of Mephistopheles from the legend: the character, from first to last, is his own creation; and, in his own words, “on account of the irony and knowledge of the world it displays, is not easily comprehended.” Although he sometimes slyly used it (though less frequently than Faust) as a mask through which to speak with his own voice, he evidently drew the germ of some characteristics from his early associate, Merck. . . . The original form of this name was Mephostophiles. There has been much discussion in regard to its meaning, but Düntzen's conjecture is probably correct, -- that it was imperfectly formed by some one who knew little Greek, and was intended to signify “not loving the light.” B. Taylor, Notes to Faust. [ Century Dictionary 1906 ]

prop. a. Pertaining to, or resembling, the devil Mephistopheles, “a crafty, scoffing, relentless fiend;” devilish in character or aspect; crafty; showing cunning or ingenuity or wickedness; as, a mephistophelean glint in his eye.
Syn. -- devilish, diabolic, diabolical, mephistophelean. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A pause during a journey, to rest for the night. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. 1. without an intermediate stop; -- of trips in public conveyances, especially of a flight. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. same as around-the-clock.
Syn. -- around-the-clock, day-and-night, round-the-clock. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. A flight made without intermediate landings between source and destination; as, how many nonstops are there to Dallas?.
Syn. -- nonstop flight. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

pos>n. 1. (Auto Racing) A stop by one of the competing cars in a pit by the side of the racetrack, to take on gasoline, change tires, or perform other maintenance. [ PJC ]

2. Hence: Any pause in a journey, to eat or drink, or to use a rest room. [ PJC ]

3. A place where one may make a pit stop[ 1 or 2 ]. [ PJC ]

n. (Baseball) The player stationed in the field bewtween the second and third bases. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To obstruct; to render impassable; as, to stop a way, road, or passage. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

Whose disposition all the world well knows
Will not be rubbed nor stopped. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. To point, as a composition; to punctuate. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

If his sentences were properly stopped. Landor. [ 1913 Webster ]

7. (Naut.) To make fast; to stopper. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- To obstruct; hinder; impede; repress; suppress; restrain; discontinue; delay; interrupt. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. 1. To cease to go on; to halt, or stand still; to come to a stop. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To cease from any motion, or course of action. [ 1913 Webster ]

Stop, while ye may, suspend your mad career! Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To spend a short time; to reside temporarily; to stay; to tarry; as, to stop with a friend. [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

By stopping at home till the money was gone. R. D. Blackmore. [ 1913 Webster ]

To stop over, to stop at a station or airport beyond the time of the departure of the train or airplane on which one came, with the purpose of continuing one's journey on a subsequent train or airplane; to break one's journey. See stopover, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The act of stopping, or the state of being stopped; hindrance of progress or of action; cessation; repression; interruption; check; obstruction. [ 1913 Webster ]

It is doubtful . . . whether it contributed anything to the stop of the infection. De Foe. [ 1913 Webster ]

Occult qualities put a stop to the improvement of natural philosophy. Sir I. Newton. [ 1913 Webster ]

It is a great step toward the mastery of our desires to give this stop to them. Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. That which stops, impedes, or obstructs; as obstacle; an impediment; an obstruction. [ 1913 Webster ]

A fatal stop traversed their headlong course. Daniel. [ 1913 Webster ]

So melancholy a prospect should inspire us with zeal to oppose some stop to the rising torrent. Rogers. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

The organ sound a time survives the stop. Daniel. [ 1913 Webster ]

(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. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

7. (Opt.) The diaphragm used in optical instruments to cut off the marginal portions of a beam of light passing through lenses. [ 1913 Webster ]

8. (Zool.) 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Cessation; check; obstruction; obstacle; hindrance; impediment; interruption. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The turning plug, stopper, or spigot of a faucet. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } p. p. of Step. Stepped; gone; advanced. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

A poor widow, somedeal stope in age. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. That which closes or fills up an opening or gap; hence, a temporary expedient. [ 1913 Webster ]

Moral prejudices are the stop-gaps of virtue. Hare. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Mining) The act of excavating in the form of stopes. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Not to be stopped. Davenant. [ 1913 Webster ]

. (Finance) An order in a financial market that aims to limit losses by fixing a figure at which purchases shall be sold or sales bought in, as where stock is bought at 100 and the broker is directed to sell if the market price drops to 98. For a simple stop order, when the specified price has been reached by a traded security, the order becomes a market order to buy or sell at the market price. Thus in the given example, the stock bought at 100 might in fact be sold at 97 if the market is dropping rapidly. A stop-limit order is allowed by some exchanges and traders, in which case, when the specified price has been reached by a traded security, the order becomes a limit order to buy or sell, with the possibility that the ordered transaction may not take place. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC ]

a. Permitting one to stop over; as, a stop-over check or ticket. See To stop over, under Stop, v. i. [ 1913 Webster ]

, n. 1. the act or privilege of stopping over; stopping at a station or airport beyond the time of the departure of the train or airplane on which one came, with the purpose of continuing one's journey on a subsequent train or airplane; the temporary interruption of one's journey. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC ]

2. a brief visit. [ PJC ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Phonetics) Made by complete closure of the mouth organs; shut; -- said of certain consonants (p, b, t, d, etc.). H. Sweet. [ 1913 Webster ]

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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. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Stoppered p. pr. & vb. n. Stoppering. ] To close or secure with a stopper. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. Material for filling a cavity. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Mining) A partition or door to direct or prevent a current of air. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Far.) A pad or poultice of dung or other material applied to a horse's hoof to keep it moist. Youatt. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. G. stöpfel, stöpsel. See Stop, n. & v. t. ] That which stops or closes the mouth of a vessel; a stopper; as, a glass stopple; a cork stopple. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) A remora. It was fabled to stop ships by attaching itself to them. Sylvester. [ 1913 Webster ]