Stopper
(Stop"per), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Stoppered ; p. pr. & vb. n. Stoppering.] To close or secure
with a stopper.
Stopping
(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
(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
(Stop"ple) 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.
Stopple
(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
(Stop"ship`) n. (Zoöl.) A remora. It was fabled to stop ships by attaching itself to them. Sylvester.
Stor
(Stor) a. See Stoor. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Storage
(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
(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.
A yellow aromatic honeylike substance, resembling, and often confounded with, storax, is obtained from
the American sweet gum tree and is much used as a chewing gum, called sweet gum, and liquid storax.
Cf. Liquidambar.
