- 3. Make steady or firm, stiffen, brace.
Block, n.
- 1. Thick and heavy piece (as of wood or stone), mass.
- 2. Mould (on which objects are made).
- 3. Simpleton, fool, blockhead. See dunce.
- 4. Mass of houses (in a square or a continuous row), mass of buildings.
- 5. City block, square.
- 6. (Naut.) Pulley, tackle.
- 7. Executioner’s block (in fig. sense), scaffold, execution.
- 8. Stoppage, obstruction, jam, pack.
Blockade, v. a. Close (as ports, so as to prevent egress or ingress), block, shut up, stop up. See Beset and Beleaguer.
Blockade, n. Closure (as of a port), shutting up, blocking up.
Blockhead, n. Simpleton, fool. See dunce.
Blockish, a. Stupid, stolid, heavy, doltish, unintelligent, dull, stockish. See Beetle-Headed and Stupid.
Block up. Obstruct. See block.
Blond, Blonde, a. Fair, light, flaxen.
Blood, n.
- 1. Vital fluid, vital current, life-blood, life-current.
- 2. Posterity, descendants, offspring, children, progeny.
- 3. Kin, kindred, relations, family, house, line.
- 4. Lineage, descent, kinship, kindred, consanguinity, relationship, common derivation, common ancestry.
- 5. Royal lineage, royal line.