'To stop off' definitions:
Definition of 'To stop off'
From: GCIDE
- Stop \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. [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]
Words containing 'To stop off'
- Stop,
- Stopped,
- Stopping,
- To stop over,
- stop over,
- stop up,
- stopped up,
- stops,
- Echo stop,
- Reed stop,
- Stop bead,
- Stop motion,
- Stop order,
- Stop plank,
- Stop valve,
- Stop watch,
- Stop-over,
- Stopping-out,
- To stop a gap,
- To stop the mouth,
- Voice stop,
- Voiced stop,
- Voiceless stop,
- bus stop,
- dead stop,
- diapason stop,
- double stopping,
- flag stop,
- flue stop,
- full stop,
- furniture stop,
- glottal stop,
- labial stop,
- organ stop,
- pit stop,
- pull out all the stops,
- rest stop,
- stop bath,
- stop consonant,
- stop dead,
- stop light,
- stop number,
- stop payment,
- stop press,
- stopped diapason,
- stopped-up,
- stopping place,
- stopping point,
- suction stop,
- truck stop,
- whistle stop,
- without stopping,
- Long-stop,
- Stop-gap,
- end-stopped,
- night-stop,
- short-stop,
- Four-way stop,
- Man-stopping bullet,
- short-stop bath,
- stop-loss order,
- whistle-stop tour