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A curved bugle, having six finger keys or stops, by means of which the performer can play upon every key in the musical scale; -- called also keyed bugle, and key bugle.
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n.
That which closes or stops an opening.
n.
A house where a stage regularly stops for passengers or a relay of horses.
v. t.
To point; to mark with stops or pauses; to punctuate.
n.
One who, or that which, stanches, or stops, the flowing, as of blood.
v.
The art of selecting and combining the stops or registers of an organ.
n.
A remora. It was fabled to stop ships by attaching itself to them.
n.
One who stops, closes, shuts, or hinders; that which stops or obstructs; that which closes or fills a vent or hole in a vessel.
n.
An organ stop, comprising from two to five ranges of pipes, used only in combination with the foundation and compound stops; -- called also furniture stop. It consists of high harmonics, or overtones, of the ground tone.
v. i.
To make involuntary stops in uttering syllables or words; to hesitate or falter in speaking; to speak with stops and diffivulty; to stutter.
n.
One who upholds or supports that which props; one who, or that which, stays, stops, or restrains; also, colloquially, a horse, man, etc., that has endurance, an a race.
n.
An instrument attached to a locomotive for recording its speed and the number and duration of its stops.
v. t.
To mark with points; to separate into sentences, clauses, etc., by points or stops which mark the proper pauses in expressing the meaning.
n.
A stringed instrument formerly much in use. It consists of four parts, namely, the table or front, the body, having nine or ten ribs or "sides," arranged like the divisions of a melon, the neck, which has nine or ten frets or divisions, and the head, or cross, in which the screws for tuning are inserted. The strings are struck with the right hand, and with the left the stops are pressed.
n.
A game of chance, in which a small ball is made to move round rapidly on a circle divided off into numbered red and black spaces, the one on which it stops indicating the result of a variety of wagers permitted by the game.
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That which stops, impedes, or obstructs; as obstacle; an impediment; an obstruction.
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The endmost plank of a strake which stops short of the stem or stern.
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A letter which represents no sound; a silent letter; also, a close articulation; an element of speech formed by a position of the mouth organs which stops the passage of the breath; as, p, b, d, k, t.
v. t.
That which stops or closes the mouth of a vessel; a stopper; as, a glass stopple; a cork stopple.
n.
One who, or that which, intercepts or stops anything on the passage.
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