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Cittern-head :: Cittern-head (n.) Blockhead; dunce; -- so called because the handle of a cittern usually ended with a carved head.

Stump :: Stumbling-stone (n.) A stumbling-block.

Bull''s-eye :: Bull's-eye (n.) A small circular or oval wooden block without sheaves, having a groove around it and a hole through it, used for connecting rigging..

Plane :: Plane (a.) A block or plate having a perfectly flat surface, used as a standard of flatness; a surface plate..

Float :: Float (v. i.) A polishing block used in marble working; a runner.

Cramp :: Cramp (n.) A device, usually of iron bent at the ends, used to hold together blocks of stone, timbers, etc.; a cramp iron..

Embar :: Embar (v. t.) To stop; to hinder by prohibition; to block up.

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..

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

Chair :: Chair (n.) An iron block used on railways to support the rails and secure them to the sleepers.

Jackass :: Jackass (n.) A conceited dolt; a perverse blockhead.

Blockhouse :: Blockhouse (n.) 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..

Mome :: Mome (n.) A dull, silent person; a blockhead..

Bee :: Bee (n.) Pieces of hard wood bolted to the sides of the bowsprit, to reeve the fore-topmast stays through; -- called also bee blocks..

Blockaded :: Blockaded (imp. & p. p.) of Blockad.

Plug :: Plug (n.) A block of wood let into a wall, to afford a hold for nails..

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

Fleet :: Fleet (v. t.) To draw apart the blocks of; -- said of a tackle.

Bloom :: Bloom (n.) A mass of wrought iron from the Catalan forge or from the puddling furnace, deprived of its dross, and shaped usually in the form of an oblong block by shingling..

Dullhead :: Dullhead (n.) A blockhead; a dolt.

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