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8. (Zoöl.) 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
(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
(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.
Stope
(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.
Stope
(Stope Sto"pen) , p. p. of Step. Stepped; gone; advanced. [Obs.]
A poor widow, somedeal stope in age. Chaucer. Stop-gap
(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
(Stop"ing) n. (Mining) The act of excavating in the form of stopes.
Stopless
(Stop"less) a. Not to be stopped. Davenant.
Stop-over
(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
(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
(Stopped) a. (Phonetics) Made by complete closure of the mouth organs; shut; — said of certain
consonants (p, b, t, d, etc.). H. Sweet.
Stopper
(Stop"per) n.
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