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

Blocking Course :: Blocking course () The finishing course of a wall showing above a cornice.

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..

Bear :: Bear (n.) A block covered with coarse matting; -- used to scour the deck.

Trig :: Trig (n.) A stone, block of wood, or anything else, placed under a wheel or barrel to prevent motion; a scotch; a skid..

Dead-eye :: Dead-eye (n.) A round, flattish, wooden block, encircled by a rope, or an iron band, and pierced with three holes to receive the lanyard; -- used to extend the shrouds and stays, and for other purposes. Called also deadman's eye..

Match :: Match (v.) A perforated board, block of plaster, hardened sand, etc., in which a pattern is partly imbedded when a mold is made, for giving shape to the surfaces of separation between the parts of the mold..

Block :: Block (v. t.) The pattern or shape of a hat.

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

Spall :: Spall (v. t.) To reduce, as irregular blocks of stone, to an approximately level surface by hammering..

Broach :: Broach (n.) To shape roughly, as a block of stone, by chiseling with a coarse tool..

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

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

Scamillus :: Scamillus (n.) A sort of second plinth or block, below the bases of Ionic and Corinthian columns, generally without moldings, and of smaller size horizontally than the pedestal..

Snatch Block :: Snatch block () a kind of block with an opening in one side to receive the bight of a rope.

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

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

Nave :: Nave (n.) The block in the center of a wheel, from which the spokes radiate, and through which the axle passes; -- called also hub or hob..

Nut :: Nut (n.) A perforated block (usually a small piece of metal), provided with an internal or female screw thread, used on a bolt, or screw, for tightening or holding something, or for transmitting motion. See Illust. of lst Bolt..

Shut :: Shut (v. t.) To forbid entrance into; to prohibit; to bar; as, to shut the ports of a country by a blockade..

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