Stopped

ppl. a. [f. STOP v. + -ED¹.] In senses of the verb.

  † 1.  (Sense uncertain: ? Stuffed.) Obs.

1342–3.  Durham Acc. Rolls (Surtees), 38. In ij stopped salmon emp. iiij s.

  2.  Obstructed, blocked. Of a hole or crevice: Filled up.

c. 1440.  Promp. Parv., 477/2. Stoppyd, obstructus.

1578.  H. Wotton, Courtlie Controv., 237. My stopped eares thou haste compeld to heare.

1582.  Bentley, Mon. Matrones, ii. 145. Open thou the stopped eares of mine hart.

1796.  Coleridge, To a Friend [Lamb], 35. With stopped nostril and glove-guarded hand.

1882.  Tripplin & Rigg, Saunier’s Watchmakers’ Hand-bk., 279. To clear a stopped hole in a screw-plate.

1899.  Westm. Gaz., 15 Feb., 5/1. Stopped gas-pipes or burst water-pipes.

  † b.  Having the voice obstructed; hoarse. Obs.

1456.  Sir G. Hay, Gov. Princes, Wks. (S.T.S.), II. 157. Sum man [is] stoppit as a crok, and sum clere syngand as a nychtingale.

  c.  Stopped-up: obstructed, suffering from obstruction.

c. 1611.  Chapman, Iliad, XV. 222. [He] found great Hector, sitting vp, not stretcht vpon his bed, Nor wheasing with a stopt-vp spirit.

1667.  Phil. Trans., II. 547. Upon taking a slight cold, she was so stop’t up, that she could only whisper.

1855.  Browning, Andrea del Sarto, 80. In their vexed, beating, stuffed and stopped-up brain.

  3.  Of a vessel, tube, etc.: Closed with a plug or stopper. Of an organ-pipe: Closed at the top. Stopped diapason: see DIAPASON sb. 7.

1601.  Daniel, Civ. Wars, VI. xlix. They Mineralls combustible do finde, Which in stopt concaues placed cunningly They fire.

1694.  Waller, in Phil. Trans., XVIII. 155. A stopt Organ-Pipe is an Eighth to the same open.

1720.  Mrs. Bradshaw, in C’tess Suffolk’s Lett. (1824), I. 69. You are as close as a stopped bottle, and do not give one the least account how things go on your side of the water.

1827.  Faraday, Chem. Manip., xv. (1842), 390. Broken up and put into stopped bottles.

1841.  J. Bishop, Hamilton’s Dict. Mus. Terms, App. 117. Stopt Diapason, the name of an organ-stop; so called from having its pipes stopped at the top with a wooden plug, by which it is tuned.

1867.  Tyndall, Sound, 187. There is no theoretic limit to the subdivision of an organ-pipe either stopped or open. In stopped pipes we begin with a semi-ventral segment, and pass on to 3, 5, 7, &c. semi-ventral segments.

1880.  Grove’s Dict. Music, II. 490. A hollow, rather sweet tone, similar to that of a stopped organ pipe.

1891.  T. Hardy, Tess, xiv. The stopt-diapason note which her voice acquired when her heart was in her speech.

  † 4.  Of dice: Loaded. (Cf. STOP v. 12 d). Obs.

1600.  Rowlands, Lett. Humours Blood (1874), 59. His stopt Dice with Quick-siluer neuer misse.

  5.  Mus. (See quots.)

1676.  Mace, Musick’s Mon., 68. An Open String is more sweet, and Freer of Sound, than a stopt String. Ibid., 85. Never take up any Stopt Finger … till you have some necessary Vse of It. Ibid., 103. The Stopt-Shake, is (only) differing from the Open-Shake, in that you [etc.].

1801.  Busby, Dict. Mus., Stopt, an epithet applied to the strings of a violin, violoncello, &c. when brought into contact with the finger board by the pressure of the fingers.

  6.  Caused to cease; brought to a standstill; barred from further progress or action.

a. 1586.  Sidney, Arcadia, III. xix. (1912), 468. Gynecia … besought him to make no delay; using such gestures of compassion insteed of stopped words, that [etc.].

1599.  Porter, Angry Wom. Abington (Percy Soc.), 14. Mis. Bar. … Shall I be chid For such a ——. Mis. Gou. What a? nay mistresse speake it out; I scorne your stopt compares.

1850.  Hannay, Singleton Fontenoy, I. viii. Things are very bad … Nothing but turnings out, stopped mills, and riots.

1891.  Meredith, One of our Conq., xxviii. The face of a stopped watch.

1898.  Westm. Gaz., 27 April, 8/2. A passenger on board a stopped steamer said that … the soldiers … are enthusiastic for war.

  b.  Of a bank-note, cheque, etc.: see STOP v. 19.

1865.  Mrs. Riddell, Maxw. Drewitt, xxix. Robbery of two thousand pounds … assaulting a constable … passing the stopped notes.

1891.  Daily News, 18 July, 4/7. A vendor could sell a legally stopped bond, which he knew to be so stopped, to a purchaser who did not know it was stopped.

  7.  Phonetics. Of a consonant-sound: Formed by complete closure of the orinasal passages; explosive.

1874.  Sweet, in Trans. Philol. Soc., 539. The conversion of an open into a stopped consonant is, of course, anomalous.

1885.  Encycl. Brit., XVIII. 787/1, margin. Stopped sounds.

  8.  Versification. Of a line: Ending with the conclusion of a sentence or clause.

1874.  Fleay, in Trans. New Shaks. Soc., I. 2. I cannot speak definitely as to the stopped-line test, not having worked it out.

1875.  A. W. Ward, Eng. Dram. Lit., I. iv. 361. A ‘stopped’ line is one in which the sentence, or clause of the sentence, concludes with the line.