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Dizzard :: Dizzard (n.) A blockhead. [Obs.] [Written also dizard, and disard.].

Block Tin :: Block tin () See under Tin.

Necklace :: Necklace (n.) A rope or chain fitted around the masthead to hold hanging blocks for jibs and stays.

Lignum-vitae :: Lignum-vitae (n.) A tree (Guaiacum officinale) found in the warm latitudes of America, from which the guaiacum of medicine is procured. Its wood is very hard and heavy, and is used for various mechanical purposes, as for the wheels of ships' blocks, cogs, bearings, and the like. See Guaiacum..

Pitching :: Pitching (n.) The rough paving of a street to a grade with blocks of stone.

Blockade :: Blockade (v. t. ) 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..

Pillow :: Pillow (n.) A piece of metal or wood, forming a support to equalize pressure; a brass; a pillow block..

Obstruent :: Obstruent (a.) Causing obstruction; blocking up; hindering; as, an obstruent medicine..

Authotype :: Authotype (n.) A type or block containing a facsimile of an autograph.

Spokesmen :: Spokeshave (n.) A kind of drawing knife or planing tool for dressing the spokes of wheels, the shells of blocks, and other curved work..

Fish-block :: Fish-block (n.) See Fish-tackle.

Choke :: Choke (v. t.) To obstruct by filling up or clogging any passage; to block up.

Blockhead :: Blockhead (n.) A stupid fellow; a dolt; a person deficient in understanding.

Unreeve :: Unreeve (v. t.) To withdraw, or take out, as a rope from a block, thimble, or the like..

Underhead :: Underhead (n.) A blockhead, or stupid person; a dunderhead..

Barricade :: Barricade (n.) A fortification, made in haste, of trees, earth, palisades, wagons, or anything that will obstruct the progress or attack of an enemy. It is usually an obstruction formed in streets to block an enemy's access..

Slice :: Slice (v. t.) One of the wedges by which the cradle and the ship are lifted clear of the building blocks to prepare for launching.

Montoir :: Montoir (n.) A stone used in mounting a horse; a horse block.

Dull :: Dull (superl.) Slow of understanding; wanting readiness of apprehension; stupid; doltish; blockish.

Shell :: Shell (n.) The outer frame or case of a block within which the sheaves revolve.

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