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Stipend
- noun - a sum of money allotted on a regular basis; usually for some specific purpose
Stipple
- verb - apply (paint) in small dots or strokes
- engrave by means of dots and flicks
- make by small short touches that together produce an even or softly graded shadow, as in paint or ink
- produce a mottled effect; "The sunlight stippled the trees"
Stipule
- noun - a small leafy outgrowth at the base of a leaf or its stalk; usually occurring in pairs and soon shed
Stop Up
- verb - fill or close tightly with or as if with a plug; "plug the hole"; "stop up the leak"
Stopgap
- noun - something contrived to meet an urgent need or emergency
Stoping
- - The act of excavating in the form of stopes.
Stopped
- verb -
- (of a nose) blocked; "a stopped (or stopped-up) nose"
- have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical;
- stop and wait, as if awaiting further instructions or developments;
Stopper
- noun - (bridge) a playing card with a value sufficiently high to insure taking a trick in a particular suit; "if my partner has a spade stopper I can bid no trump"
- a remark to which there is no polite conversational reply
- an act so striking or impressive that the show must be delayed until the audience quiets down
- blockage consisting of an object designed to fill a hole tightly
- close or secure with or as if with a stopper; "She stoppered the wine bottle"; "The mothers stoppered their babies' mouths with pacifiers"