Phonetics. A mute or stopped consonant; a plosive. Now historical and rare.

A sudden stopping of the breath; a consonant produced by this means a stopped consonant, ‘stop’, or ‘mute’, as k, t, p, g, d, b.

A designation formerly applied to a voiceless stopped consonant; by some later writers, to a stopped consonant generally.

Phonetics. A consonantal sound in the formation of which the passage of the breath is completely obstructed; a stopped consonant, a mute.

= sense 19b.