Chapter Blaze to Bludgeon of B by Soule's Synonymes

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.