BPage 181
- English Word Bloater Definition The common herring, esp. when of large size, smoked, and half dried; -- called also bloat herring.
- English Word Bloating Definition of Bloat
- English Word Blob Definition Something blunt and round; a small drop or lump of something viscid or thick; a drop; a bubble; a blister.
- English Word Blob Definition A small fresh-water fish (Uranidea Richardsoni); the miller's thumb.
- English Word Blobber Definition A bubble; blubber.
- English Word Blobber-lipped Definition Having thick lips.
- English Word Blocage Definition The roughest and cheapest sort of rubblework, in masonry.
- English Word Block Definition A piece of wood more or less bulky; a solid mass of wood, stone, etc., usually with one or more plane, or approximately plane, faces; as, a block on which a butcher chops his meat; a block by which to mount a horse; children's playing blocks, etc.
- English Word Block Definition The solid piece of wood on which condemned persons lay their necks when they are beheaded.
- English Word Block Definition The wooden mold on which hats, bonnets, etc., are shaped.
- English Word Block Definition The pattern or shape of a hat.
- English Word Block Definition A large or long building divided into separate houses or shops, or a number of houses or shops built in contact with each other so as to form one building; a row of houses or shops.
- English Word Block Definition A square, or portion of a city inclosed by streets, whether occupied by buildings or not.
- English Word Block Definition A grooved pulley or sheave incased in a frame or shell which is provided with a hook, eye, or strap, by which it may be attached to an object. It is used to change the direction of motion, as in raising a heavy object that can not be conveniently reached, and also, when two or more such sheaves are compounded, to change the rate of motion, or to exert increased force; -- used especially in the rigging of ships, and in tackles.
- English Word Block Definition The perch on which a bird of prey is kept.
- English Word Block Definition Any obstruction, or cause of obstruction; a stop; a hindrance; an obstacle; as, a block in the way.
- English Word Block Definition A piece of box or other wood for engravers' work.
- English Word Block Definition A piece of hard wood (as mahogany or cherry) on which a stereotype or electrotype plate is mounted to make it type high.
- English Word Block Definition A blockhead; a stupid fellow; a dolt.
- English Word Block Definition A section of a railroad where the block system is used. See Block system, below.
- English Word Block Definition To obstruct so as to prevent passage or progress; to prevent passage from, through, or into, by obstructing the way; -- used both of persons and things; -- often followed by up; as, to block up a road or harbor.
- English Word Block Definition To secure or support by means of blocks; to secure, as two boards at their angles of intersection, by pieces of wood glued to each.
- English Word Block Definition To shape on, or stamp with, a block; as, to block a hat.
- English Word Block book Definition A book printed from engraved wooden blocks instead of movable types.
- English Word Block tin Definition See under Tin.
- English Word Blockade Definition The shutting up of a place by troops or ships, with the purpose of preventing ingress or egress, or the reception of supplies; as, the blockade of the ports of an enemy.
- English Word Blockade Definition An obstruction to passage.
- English Word Blockade Definition To shut up, as a town or fortress, by investing it with troops or vessels or war for the purpose of preventing ingress or egress, or the introduction of supplies. See note under Blockade, n.
- English Word Blockade Definition Hence, to shut in so as to prevent egress.
- English Word Blockade Definition To obstruct entrance to or egress from.