Stoop"er (?), n. One who stoops.
Stoop"ing, a. & n. from Stoop. -- Stoop"ing*ly, adv.
Stoor (?), v. i. [Cf. D. storen to disturb. Cf. Stir.] To rise in
clouds, as dust. [Prov. Eng.]
{ Stoor (?), Stor (?) }, a. [AS. str; akin to LG. stur, Icel. strr.]
Strong; powerful; hardy; bold; audacious. [Obs. or Scot.]
O stronge lady stoor, what doest thou?
Chaucer.
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.