Definition of lock

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Lock (n.) That part or apparatus of a firearm by which the charge is exploded; as, a matchlock, flintlock, percussion lock, etc..

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Flexibility :: Flexibility (n.) The state or quality of being flexible; flexibleness; pliancy; pliability; as, the flexibility of strips of hemlock, hickory, whalebone or metal, or of rays of light..
Locky :: Locky (a.) Having locks or tufts.
Stroke :: Stroke (v. t.) The striking of the clock to tell the hour.
Mulierly :: Mulierly (adv.) In the manner or condition of a mulier; in wedlock; legitimately.
Noodle :: Noodle (n.) A simpleton; a blockhead; a stupid person; a ninny.
Ambry :: Ambry (n.) In churches, a kind of closet, niche, cupboard, or locker for utensils, vestments, etc..
Gauge :: Gauge (v. t.) To measure the dimensions of, or to test the accuracy of the form of, as of a part of a gunlock..
Evergreen :: Evergreen (a.) Remaining unwithered through the winter, or retaining unwithered leaves until the leaves of the next year are expanded, as pines cedars, hemlocks, and the like..
Stumped :: Stump (n.) A pin in a tumbler lock which forms an obstruction to throwing the bolt, except when the gates of the tumblers are properly arranged, as by the key; a fence; also, a pin or projection in a lock to form a guide for a movable piece..
Marriage :: Marriage (v. t.) The act of marrying, or the state of being married; legal union of a man and a woman for life, as husband and wife; wedlock; matrimony..
Blockader :: Blockader (n.) One who blockades.
Impose :: Impose (v. t.) To arrange in proper order on a table of stone or metal and lock up in a chase for printing; -- said of columns or pages of type, forms, etc..
Hydroscope :: Hydroscope (n.) A kind of water clock, used anciently for measuring time, the water tricking from an orifice at the end of a graduated tube..
Obstruent :: Obstruent (a.) Causing obstruction; blocking up; hindering; as, an obstruent medicine..
Jolthead :: Jolthead (n.) A dunce; a blockhead.
Herisson :: Herisson (n.) A beam or bar armed with iron spikes, and turning on a pivot; -- used to block up a passage..
Wedded :: Wedded (a.) Of or pertaining to wedlock, or marriage..
Denture :: Denture (n.) An artificial tooth, block, or set of teeth..
Gimmal :: Gimmal (n.) Joined work whose parts move within each other; a pair or series of interlocked rings.
Conine :: Conine (n.) A powerful and very poisonous vegetable alkaloid found in the hemlock (Conium maculatum) and extracted as a colorless oil, C8H17N, of strong repulsive odor and acrid taste. It is regarded as a derivative of piperidine and likewise of one of the collidines. It occasions a gradual paralysis of the motor nerves. Called also coniine, coneine, conia, etc. See Conium, 2..
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