Vocabulary : Stoolball to Stopcock

Stoolball : A kind of game with balls, formerly common in England, esp. with young women.
Stoom : To stum.
Stoop : Originally, a covered porch with seats, at a house door; the Dutch stoep as introduced by the Dutch into New York. Afterward, an out-of-door flight of stairs of from seven to fourteen steps, with platform and parapets, leading to an entrance door some distance above the street; the French perron. Hence, any porch, platform, entrance stairway, or small veranda, at a house door. ;; A vessel of liquor; a flagon. ;; A post fixed in the earth. ;; To bend the upper part of the body downward and forward; to bend or lean forward; to incline forward in standing or walking; to assume habitually a bent position. ;; To yield; to submit; to bend, as by compulsion; to assume a position of humility or subjection. ;; To descend from rank or dignity; to condescend. ;; To come down as a hawk does on its prey; to pounce; to souse; to swoop. ;; To sink when on the wing; to alight. ;; To bend forward and downward; to bow down; as, to stoop the body. ;; To cause to incline downward; to slant; as, to stoop a cask of liquor. ;; To c
Stooped : of Stoop
Stooper : One who stoops.

Stooping : of Stoop ;; a. & n. from Stoop.
Stoor : To rise in clouds, as dust. ;; Alt. of Stor
Stop : To close, as an aperture, by filling or by obstructing; as, to stop the ears; hence, to stanch, as a wound. ;; To obstruct; to render impassable; as, to stop a way, road, or passage. ;; 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. ;; 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. ;; 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. ;; To point, as a composition; to punctuate. ;; To make fast; to stopper. ;; To cease to go on; to halt, or stand still; to come to a stop. ;; To cease from any motion, or course of action. ;; To spend a short time; to reside temporarily; to stay; to tarry; as, to stop with a friend.
Stop order : An order that aims to limit losses by fixing a figure at which purchases shall be sold or sales bought in, as where stock is bought at 100 and the broker is directed to sell if the market price drops to 98.
Stopcock : A bib, faucet, or short pipe, fitted with a turning stopper or plug for permitting or restraining the flow of a liquid or gas; a cock or valve for checking or regulating the flow of water, gas, etc., through or from a pipe, etc. ;; The turning plug, stopper, or spigot of a faucet.