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Modillion :: Modillion (n.) The enriched block or horizontal bracket generally found under the cornice of the Corinthian and Composite entablature, and sometimes, less ornamented, in the Ionic and other orders; -- so called because of its arrangement at regulated distances..

Blockhouse :: Blockhouse (n.) A house of squared logs.

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..

Woodenly :: Woodenly (adv.) Clumsily; stupidly; blockishly.

Block :: Block (v. t.) A blockhead; a stupid fellow; a dolt.

Glut :: Glut (n.) A wooden wedge used in splitting blocks.

Strap :: Strap (n.) A piece of rope or metal passing around a block and used for fastening it to anything.

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..

Render :: Render (v. i.) To pass; to run; -- said of the passage of a rope through a block, eyelet, etc.; as, a rope renders well, that is, passes freely; also, to yield or give way..

Plumber Block :: Plumber block () A pillow block.

Stock :: Stock (n.) A block of wood; something fixed and solid; a pillar; a firm support; a post.

Pedestal :: Pedestal (n.) A pillow block; a low housing.

Blockading :: Blockading (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Blockad.

Block :: Block (v. t.) The solid piece of wood on which condemned persons lay their necks when they are beheaded.

Chisel :: Chisel (v. t.) To cut, pare, gouge, or engrave with a chisel; as, to chisel a block of marble into a statue..

Frow :: Frow (n.) A cleaving tool with handle at right angles to the blade, for splitting cask staves and shingles from the block; a frower..

Oxhead :: Oxhead (n.) Literally, the head of an ox (emblem of cuckoldom); hence, a dolt; a blockhead..

Blockader :: Blockader (n.) A vessel employed in blockading.

Investment :: Investment (n.) The act of surrounding, blocking up, or besieging by an armed force, or the state of being so surrounded..

Pillar-block :: Pillar-block (n.) See under Pillow.

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