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checkpoint

a place as at a frontier where travellers are stopped for inspection and clearance

departing

leaving a starting or stopping point on a journey as Departing flights were delayed by the snowstorm Opposite of arriving

Kent bugle

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

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dreidel

letters nun gimel he or shin It is spun like a top and the letter showing when it stops spinning determines the outcome of a game of chance

Dumdum bullet

A kind of man stopping bullet designed to fragment inside the body and thus inflict a severed and painful wound so named from

Express train

for the occasion a special train now a train run at express or special speed and making few stops

Faucet

in such quantities as may be desired called also tap and cock It consists of a tubular spout stopped with a movable plug spigot valve or slide

Flue pipe

in the air within a mouth pipe distinguished from reed pipe Flue pipes are either open or closed stopped at the distant end The flute and flageolet are open pipes a bottle acts as a closed pipe

Fluework

A general name for organ stops in which the sound is caused by wind passing through a flue or fissure and striking an edge

Fluorescence

one wavelength and the almost instantaneous re emission of radiation at another usually longer wavelength The re radiation stops almost as soon as the incident radiation is halted thus distinguishing this phenomenon from phosphorescence in which re

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