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Slock :: Slock (v. t.) Alt. of Slocke.

Block :: Block (v. t.) A piece of box or other wood for engravers' work.

Lurdan :: Lurdan (n.) A blockhead.

Carcel Lamp :: Carcel lamp () A French mechanical lamp, for lighthouses, in which a superabundance of oil is pumped to the wick tube by clockwork..

Sensationalism :: Sensationalism (n.) The doctrine held by Condillac, and by some ascribed to Locke, that our ideas originate solely in sensation, and consist of sensations transformed; sensualism; -- opposed to intuitionalism, and rationalism..

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

Log :: Log (n.) A weight or block near the free end of a hoisting rope to prevent it from being drawn through the sheave.

Windgall :: Windgall (n.) A soft tumor or synovial swelling on the fetlock joint of a horse; -- so called from having formerly been supposed to contain air.

Obstruent :: Obstruent (a.) Causing obstruction; blocking up; hindering; as, an obstruent medicine..

Burton :: Burton (n.) A peculiar tackle, formed of two or more blocks, or pulleys, the weight being suspended to a hook block in the bight of the running part..

Leet :: Leet (n.) The European pollock.

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

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

Willock :: Willock (n.) The common guillemot.

Flockling :: Flockling (n.) A lamb.

Tetanus :: Tetanus (n.) A painful and usually fatal disease, resulting generally from a wound, and having as its principal symptom persistent spasm of the voluntary muscles. When the muscles of the lower jaw are affected, it is called locked-jaw, or lickjaw, and it takes various names from the various incurvations of the body resulting from the spasm..

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

Clock :: Clock (n.) A figure or figured work on the ankle or side of a stocking.

Denote :: Denote (v. t.) To mark out plainly; to signify by a visible sign; to serve as the sign or name of; to indicate; to point out; as, the hands of the clock denote the hour..

Scape-wheel :: Scape-wheel (n.) The wheel in an escapement (as of a clock or a watch) into the teeth of which the pallets play.

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