3. To obstruct entrance to or egress from.
Huge bales of British cloth blockade the door.
Pope.
Blockader
(Block*ad"er) n.
1. One who blockades.
2. (Naut.) A vessel employed in blockading.
Blockage
(Block"age) n. The act of blocking up; the state of being blocked up.
Block book
(Block" book`) A book printed from engraved wooden blocks instead of movable types.
Blockhead
(Block"head`) n. [Block + head.] A stupid fellow; a dolt; a person deficient in understanding.
The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read,
With loads of learned lumber in his head.
Pope.
Blockheaded
(Block"head`ed), a. Stupid; dull.
Blockheadism
(Block"head*ism) n. That which characterizes a blockhead; stupidity. Carlyle.
Blockhouse
(Block"house`) n. [Block + house: cf. G. blockhaus.]
1. (Mil.) 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.
2. A house of squared logs. [West. & South. U. S.]
Blocking
(Block"ing), n.
1. The act of obstructing, supporting, shaping, or stamping with a block or blocks.
2. Blocks used to support (a building, etc.) temporarily.
Blocking course
(Block"ing course`) (Arch.) The finishing course of a wall showing above a cornice.
Blockish
(Block"ish), a. Like a block; deficient in understanding; stupid; dull. "Blockish Ajax." Shak. —
Block"ish*ly, adv. — Block"ish*ness, n.
Blocklike
(Block"like`) a. Like a block; stupid.
Block tin
(Block" tin`) See under Tin.
Bloedite
(Bloe"dite) n. [From the chemist Blöde.] (Min.) A hydrous sulphate of magnesium and sodium.
Blomary
(Blom"a*ry) n. See Bloomery.
Bloncket
(Blonc"ket, Blon"ket) a. [OF. blanquet whitish, dim. of blanc white. Cf. Blanket.] Gray; bluish
gray. [Obs.]
Our bloncket liveries been all too sad.
Spenser.
