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Man-stopping bulletMan Man, n.
Man of sin (Script.), one who is the embodiment of evil,
whose coming is represented (--2 Thess. ii. 3) as
preceding the second coming of Christ. [A Hebraistic
expression]
Man-stopping bullet (Mil.), a bullet which will produce a
sufficient shock to stop a soldier advancing in a charge;
specif., a small-caliber bullet so modified as to expand
when striking the human body. Such bullets are chiefly
used in wars with savage tribes. Manbird Man"bird`, n.
An aviator. [Colloq.] Slip stopper To give one the slip, to slip away from one; to elude one.
Slip dock. See under Dock.
Slip link (Mach.), a connecting link so arranged as to
allow some play of the parts, to avoid concussion.
Slip rope (Naut.), a rope by which a cable is secured
preparatory to slipping. --Totten.
Slip stopper (Naut.), an arrangement for letting go the
anchor suddenly. Stoppage
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.
StoppedStop 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.
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. Stopped
Stopped Stopped, a. (Phonetics)
Made by complete closure of the mouth organs; shut; -- said
of certain consonants (p, b, t, d, etc.). --H. Sweet.
stopped diapasonDiapason Di`a*pa"son, n. [L., fr. Gr. ? (i. e., ? ? ? the
concord of the first and last notes, the octave); dia`
through + ?, gen. pl. of ? all: cf. F. diapason. Cf.
Panacea.]
1. (Gr. Mus.) The octave, or interval which includes all the
tones of the diatonic scale.
2. Concord, as of notes an octave apart; harmony.
The fair music that all creatures made . . . In
perfect diapason. --Milton.
3. The entire compass of tones.
Through all the compass of the notes it ran, The
diapason closing full in man. --Dryden.
4. A standard of pitch; a tuning fork; as, the French normal
diapason.
5. One of certain stops in the organ, so called because they
extend through the scale of the instrument. They are of
several kinds, as open diapason, stopped diapason,
double diapason, and the like. StopperStopper Stop"per, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Stoppered; p. pr. &
vb. n. Stoppering.]
To close or secure with a stopper. StopperedStopper Stop"per, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Stoppered; p. pr. &
vb. n. Stoppering.]
To close or secure with a stopper. StopperingStopper Stop"per, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Stoppered; p. pr. &
vb. n. Stoppering.]
To close or secure with a stopper. StoppingStop 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.
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. Stopping-out
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.
StoppleStopple Stop"ple, n. [Cf. G. st["o]pfel, st["o]psel. See
Stop, n. & v. t.]
That which stops or closes the mouth of a vessel; a stopper;
as, a glass stopple; a cork stopple. StoppleStopple 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. StoppledStopple 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. StopplingStopple 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. Tobacco stopperTobacco To*bac"co, n. [Sp. tabaco, fr. the Indian tabaco the
tube or pipe in which the Indians or Caribbees smoked this
plant. Some derive the word from Tabaco, a province of
Yucatan, where it was said to be first found by the
Spaniards; others from the island of Tobago, one of the
Caribbees. But these derivations are very doubtful.]
1. (Bot.) An American plant (Nicotiana Tabacum) of the
Nightshade family, much used for smoking and chewing, and
as snuff. As a medicine, it is narcotic, emetic, and
cathartic. Tobacco has a strong, peculiar smell, and an
acrid taste.
Note: The name is extended to other species of the genus, and
to some unrelated plants, as Indian tobacco (Nicotiana
rustica, and also Lobelia inflata), mountain tobacco
(Arnica montana), and Shiraz tobacco (Nicotiana
Persica).
2. The leaves of the plant prepared for smoking, chewing,
etc., by being dried, cured, and manufactured in various
ways.
Tobacco box (Zo["o]l.), the common American skate.
Tobacco camphor. (Chem.) See Nicotianine.
Tobacco man, a tobacconist. [R.]
Tobacco pipe.
(a) A pipe used for smoking, made of baked clay, wood, or
other material.
(b) (Bot.) Same as Indian pipe, under Indian.
Tobacco-pipe clay (Min.), a species of clay used in making
tobacco pipes; -- called also cimolite.
Tobacco-pipe fish. (Zo["o]l.) See Pipemouth.
Tobacco stopper, a small plug for pressing down the tobacco
in a pipe as it is smoked.
Tobacco worm (Zo["o]l.), the larva of a large hawk moth
(Sphinx, or Phlegethontius, Carolina). It is dark green,
with seven oblique white stripes bordered above with dark
brown on each side of the body. It feeds upon the leaves
of tobacco and tomato plants, and is often very injurious
to the tobacco crop. See Illust. of Hawk moth.
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