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- Stopping - n. - Material for filling a cavity.
- Stopping - n. - A partition or door to direct or prevent a current of air.
- Stopping - n. - A pad or poultice of dung or other material applied to a horse's hoof to keep it moist.
- Stopping - p. pr. & vb. n. - of Stop
- Stopping-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.
- Sluice - n. - An artifical passage for water, fitted with a valve or gate, as in a mill stream, for stopping or regulating the flow; also, a water gate or flood gate.
- Brake - v. t. - A piece of mechanism for retarding or stopping motion by friction, as of a carriage or railway car, by the pressure of rubbers against the wheels, or of clogs or ratchets against the track or roadway, or of a pivoted lever against a wheel or drum in a machine.
- Styptic - a. - Producing contraction; stopping bleeding; having the quality of restraining hemorrhage when applied to the bleeding part; astringent.
- Mahovo - n. - A device for saving power in stopping and starting a railroad car, by means of a heavy fly wheel.
- Gate - n. - A door, valve, or other device, for stopping the passage of water through a dam, lock, pipe, etc.
- Viol - n. - A stringed musical instrument formerly in use, of the same form as the violin, but larger, and having six strings, to be struck with a bow, and the neck furnished with frets for stopping the strings.
- Blain - n. - A bladder growing on the root of the tongue of a horse, against the windpipe, and stopping the breath.
- Station - n. - A regular stopping place in a stage road or route; a place where railroad trains regularly come to a stand, for the convenience of passengers, taking in fuel, moving freight, etc.
- Oppilation - n. - The act of filling or crowding together; a stopping by redundant matter; obstruction, particularly in the lower intestines.
- Plugging - n. - The act of stopping with a plug.
- Obstipation - n. - The act of stopping up, as a passage.
- Interclusion - n. - Interception; a stopping / obstruction.
- Putty - n. - A kind of thick paste or cement compounded of whiting, or soft carbonate of lime, and linseed oil, when applied beaten or kneaded to the consistence of dough, -- used in fastening glass in sashes, stopping crevices, and for similar purposes.
- March - n. - The act of marching; a movement of soldiers from one stopping place to another; military progress; advance of troops.
- Wad - n. - A soft mass, especially of some loose, fibrous substance, used for various purposes, as for stopping an aperture, padding a garment, etc.
- Shive - n. - A thin, flat cork used for stopping a wide-mouthed bottle; also, a thin wooden bung for casks.
- Inhibition - n. - A stopping or checking of an already present action; a restraining of the function of an organ, or an agent, as a digestive fluid or ferment, etc.; as, the inhibition of the respiratory center by the pneumogastric nerve; the inhibition of reflexes, etc.
- Plug - v. t. - To stop with a plug; to make tight by stopping a hole.
- Solstice - v. i. - A stopping or standing still of the sun.
- Tap - n. - A plug or spile for stopping a hole pierced in a cask, or the like; a faucet.
- Halt - a. - Halting or stopping in walking; lame.
- Suffocate - v. t. - To choke or kill by stopping respiration; to stifle; to smother.
- Cut-off - n. - Any device for stopping or changing a current, as of grain or water in a spout.
- Obturation - n. - The act of stopping up, or closing, an opening.
- Face - v. t. - To meet in front; to oppose with firmness; to resist, or to meet for the purpose of stopping or opposing; to confront; to encounter; as, to face an enemy in the field of battle.