BPage 272
- 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.
- English Word Blockaded Definition of Blockade
- English Word Blockader Definition One who blockades.
- English Word Blockader Definition A vessel employed in blockading.
- English Word Blockading Definition of Blockade
- English Word Blockage Definition The act of blocking up; the state of being blocked up.
- English Word Blocked Definition of Block
- English Word Blockhead Definition A stupid fellow; a dolt; a person deficient in understanding.
- English Word Blockheaded Definition Stupid; dull.
- English Word Blockheadism Definition That which characterizes a blockhead; stupidity.
- English Word Blockhouse Definition An edifice or structure of heavy timbers or logs for military defense, having its sides loopholed for musketry, and often an upper story projecting over the lower, or so placed upon it as to have its sides make an angle wit the sides of the lower story, thus enabling the defenders to fire downward, and in all directions; -- formerly much used in America and Germany.