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dead. Bacon. —To close any aperture. — Smite every 
fenced city, stop all wells of water, and marland with 
stones. —To obstruct ; to encumber.—Mountains of ice 
that stop the imagin’d way. Milton. —To garnish with 
proper punctuation. 
To STOP, v. a. To cease to forward. 
Some strange commotion 
Is in his brain: he bites his lip, and starts ; 
Stops on a sudden, looks upon the ground. 
Then lays his finger on his temple; strait 
Springs out into tast gait, then stops again. ShaJcspeare. 
If the rude throng pour on with furious pace, 
And hope to break thee from a friend's embrace, 
Stop short, nor struggle through. Gap. 
To cease from any course of action.—Encroachments are 
made by degrees from one step to another; and the best 
time to stop is at the beginning. Lesley. 
STOP, s. Cessation of progressive motion. 
Thought’s the slave of time, and life time’s fool; 
And time, that takes survey of all the world, 
Must have a stop. Shakspeare. 
A lion, ranging for his prey, made a stop on a sudden at 
a hideous yelling noise, which startled him. L’ Estrange. 
—Hindrance of progress; obstruction: act of stopping. 
My praise the Fabii claim, 
And thou great hero, greatest of thy name. 
Ordain’d in war to save the sinking state, 
And, by delays, to put a stop to fate. Dryden. 
Repression; hindrance of operation:—’Tis a great step 
towards the mastery of our desires to give this stop to them, 
and shut them up in silence. Locke. —Cessation of action. 
Look you to the guard to-night: 
Let’s teach ourselves that honourable stop, 
Not to outsport discretion. Shakspeare. 
Interruption. 
Thou art full of love and honesty. 
And weight’s! thy words before thou giv’st them breath; 
Therefore these stops of thine fright me the more. 
Shakspeare. 
Prohibition of sale.—If they should open a war, they fore¬ 
see the consumption France must fall into by the stop of 
their wine and salts, wholly taken off by our two nations. 
Temple. —That which obstructs; obstacle; impediment. 
The proud Duessa, full of wrathful spight 
And fierce disdain to be affronted so, 
Inforc’d her purple beast with all her might, 
That stop out of the way to overthrow. Spenser. 
Instrument by which the sounds of wind music are re- 
ulated.—You would play upon me, you would seem to 
now my stops; you would pluck out the heart of my 
mystery. Shakspeare. 
Blest are those, 
Whose blood and judgement are so well commingled. 
That they are not a pipe for fortune’s finger, 
To sound what stop she please. Shakspeare. 
Regulation of musical chords by the fingers.—The further 
a string is strained, the less superstraining goeth to a note; 
for it requireth good winding of a string before it will make 
any note at all: and in the stops of lutes, the higher they 
go, the less distance is between the frets. Bacon. —The act 
of applying the stops in music. 
The organ-sound a time survives the stop, 
Before it doth the dying note give up. Daniel. 
A point in writing, by which sentences are distinguished. 
Even the iron-pointed pen, 
That notesthe tragic dooms of men, 
Wet with tears still’d from the eyes 
Of the flinty destinies. 
Would have learn’d a softer style, 
And have been asham’d to spoil 
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His life’s sweet story by the haste 
Of a cruel stop ill-plac’d. Crashaw, 
STO'PCOCK, s. A pipe made to let out liquor, stopped 
by a turning cock—No man could spit from him without 
it, but would drivel like some paralytic or fool; the tongue 
being as a stopcock to the air, till upon its removal the 
spittle is driven away. Grew. 
STO'PGAP, s. Something or some person substituted; 
a temporary expedient. 
STOPHAM, a parish of England, in Sussex; 4 miles 
south-east-by-east of Petworlh. 
STO'PLESS, adj. Not to be stopped; irresistible. 
Making a civil and staid senate rude, 
And stopless as a running multitude. Davenani. 
STOPNICA, a small town in the west of Poland ; 50 
miles north-west of Cracow, with 900 inhabitants. 
STO'PPAGE, s. The act of stopping; the state of being 
stopped.—The effects are a stoppage of circulation by too 
great a weight upon the heart, and suffocation. Arbuthnot. 
—The stoppage of a cough, or spitting, increases phlegm in 
the stomach. Floyer. 
STO'PPER, s. One who closes any aperture.—-The 
ancients of Gebal, and the wise men thereof, were in thee 
thy calkers, [in the margin, stoppers of chinks.] E~ek .— 
A stopple. See Stopple. 
STOPPESLEY, a hamlet of England, in Bedfordshire; 
2 miles north-north-east of Luton. 
STO'PPLE, or Stopper, s. That by which any hole 
or the mouth of any vessel is filled up.—Bottles swinged, 
or carried in a wheel-barrow upon rough ground, fill not 
full, but leave some air; for if the liquor come close to the 
stopple, it cannot flower. Bacon. 
STOR, a river of Denmark, in Holstein, which falls into 
the Elbe below Gluckstadt, after a course of 45 miles. 
STORAX, Officinal, is the resinous drug, obtained in 
perfection only from those trees that grow in Asiatic Turkey, 
and which issues in a fluid state from incisions made in the 
bark of the trunk, or branches, of the storax-tree. And our 
Pharmacopeias formerly directed the “ pilulse e styrace,” 
or Storax Pills; but this odoriferous drug has now no 
place in any of the officinal compounds; and is totally 
disregarded by modern practitioners. Woodville’s Med. 
Bot. 
STORAX, Liquid, is a resinous juice, obtained from a 
large tree, with leaves like those of the maple, called by 
Linnaeus Liquidambar styraciflua, a native of Virginia 
and Mexico: it is at present wholly in disuse. 
STORCHNEST, or Osieczna, a small town of Prussian 
Poland ; 16 miles east north-east of Fraustadt,and 37 south- 
south-west of Posen. 
STORCK (Anthony), a medical professor of considerable 
note at Vienna, succeeded the celebrated Van Swieten in the 
otfice of president and director of the faculty of medicine in 
the university of that metropolis, and was also honoured 
with the appointment of principal consulting physician to 
the empress Maria Theresa. He distinguished himself chiefly 
by a long and assiduous course of experiments relative to the 
operation of various narcotic vegetables, and to the best 
mode of preparing and administering them. The vegetables 
of which he has treated in various tracts, are the hemlock, 
henbane, stramonium, aconite, meadow-saffron, and pulsa- 
tilla nigricans: and although he was disposed to over-rate 
the efficacy of some of these substances, and has ascribed to 
them virtues which subsequent experience has not always 
confirmed, he had the merit of calling the attention of the 
medical world to a class of active remedies, which, under 
proper management, are productive of much benefit, and 
constitute a valuable addition to the Materia Medica. Be¬ 
tween the years 1760 and 1771, his various tracts upon these 
subjects were printed at Vienna, and they have subsequently 
undergone several editions and translations in other coun¬ 
tries. He was also author of a collection of cases which oc¬ 
curred under his observation in the hospital at Vienna, enti¬ 
tled “ Annus Medicus, quo sistuntur Observationes circa 
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