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Reentering :: Reentering (n.) The process of applying additional colors, by applications of printing blocks, to patterns already partly colored..

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

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

Crampoons :: Crampoons (n.) A clutch formed of hooked pieces of iron, like double calipers, for raising stones, lumber, blocks of ice, etc..

Spokesmen :: Spokeshave (n.) A kind of drawing knife or planing tool for dressing the spokes of wheels, the shells of blocks, and other curved work..

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..

Chockablock :: Chockablock (a.) Hoisted as high as the tackle will admit; brought close together, as the two blocks of a tackle in hoisting..

Lurdan :: Lurdan (a.) Stupid; blockish.

Voyol :: Voyol (n.) The block through which a messenger passes.

Jolthead :: Jolthead (n.) A dunce; a blockhead.

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

Block :: Block (v. t.) A piece of hard wood (as mahogany or cherry) on which a stereotype or electrotype plate is mounted to make it type high.

Knockstone :: Knockstone (n.) A block upon which ore is broken up.

Coehorn :: Coehorn (n.) A small bronze mortar mounted on a wooden block with handles, and light enough to be carried short distances by two men..

Doorstop :: Doorstop (n.) The block or strip of wood or similar material which stops, at the right place, the shutting of a door..

Sot :: Sot (n.) A stupid person; a blockhead; a dull fellow; a dolt.

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

Thickskull :: Thickskull (n.) A dullard, or dull person; a blockhead; a numskull..

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

Block :: Block (v. t.) A grooved pulley or sheave incased in a frame or shell which is provided with a hook, eye, or strap, by which it may be attached to an object. It is used to change the direction of motion, as in raising a heavy object that can not be conveniently reached, and also, when two or more such sheaves are compounded, to change the rate of motion, or to exert increased force; -- used especially in the rigging of ships, and in tackles..

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