Definition of lock

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Lock (v. t.) To fasten in or out, or to make secure by means of, or as with, locks; to confine, or to shut in or out -- often with up; as, to lock one's self in a room; to lock up the prisoners; to lock up one's silver; to lock intruders out of the house; to lock money into a vault; to lock a child in one's arms; to lock a secret in one's breast..

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Willock :: Willock (n.) The common guillemot.
Scry :: Scry (v.) A flock of wild fowl.
Marry :: Marry (v. t.) To unite in wedlock or matrimony; to perform the ceremony of joining, as a man and a woman, for life; to constitute (a man and a woman) husband and wife according to the laws or customs of the place..
Quadrat :: Quadrat (n.) A block of type metal lower than the letters, -- used in spacing and in blank lines..
Run :: Run (v. t.) To cause to run (in the various senses of Run, v. i.); as, to run a horse; to run a stage; to run a machine; to run a rope through a block..
Socle :: Socle (n.) A plain block or plinth forming a low pedestal; any base; especially, the base of a statue, column, or the like. See Plinth..
Greenfish :: Greenfish (n.) See Bluefish, and Pollock..
Glut :: Glut (n.) A block used for a fulcrum.
Numps :: Numps (n.) A dolt; a blockhead.
Bolt :: Bolt (n.) A sliding catch, or fastening, as for a door or gate; the portion of a lock which is shot or withdrawn by the action of the key..
Nab :: Nab (n.) The cock of a gunlock.
Bennet :: Bennet (a.) The common yellow-flowered avens of Europe (Geum urbanum); herb bennet. The name is sometimes given to other plants, as the hemlock, valerian, etc..
Earlock :: Earlock (n.) A lock or curl of hair near the ear; a lovelock. See Lovelock.
Bushhammer :: Bushhammer (v. t.) To dress with bushhammer; as, to bushhammer a block of granite..
Tackle :: Tackle (n.) The rigging and apparatus of a ship; also, any purchase where more than one block is used..
Reentering :: Reentering (n.) The process of applying additional colors, by applications of printing blocks, to patterns already partly colored..
Harquebuse :: Harquebuse (n.) A firearm with match holder, trigger, and tumbler, made in the second half of the 15th century. the barrel was about forty inches long. A form of the harquebus was subsequently called arquebus with matchlock..
Gunlock :: Gunlock (n.) The lock of a gun, for producing the discharge. See Lock..
Burn :: Burn (v. t.) To make or produce, as an effect or result, by the application of fire or heat; as, to burn a hole; to burn charcoal; to burn letters into a block..
Deadlock :: Deadlock (n.) A counteraction of things, which produces an entire stoppage; a complete obstruction of action..
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