Aloes wood () See Agalloch. |
Amboyna wood () A beautiful mottled and curled wood, used in cabinetwork. It is obtained from the Pterocarpus Indicus of Amboyna, Borneo, etc. |
Bethabara wood () A highly elastic wood, used for fishing rods, etc. The tree is unknown, but it is thought to be East Indian. |
Block (v. t.) A piece of wood more or less bulky |
Block (v. t.) The solid piece of wood on which condemned persons lay their necks when they are beheaded. |
Block (v. t.) The wooden mold on which hats, bonnets, etc., are shaped. |
Block (v. t.) The pattern or shape of a hat. |
Block (v. t.) A large or long building divided into separate houses or shops, or a number of houses or shops built in contact with each other so as to form one building |
Block (v. t.) A square, or portion of a city inclosed by streets, whether occupied by buildings or not. |
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 |
Block (v. t.) The perch on which a bird of prey is kept. |
Block (v. t.) Any obstruction, or cause of obstruction |
Block (v. t.) A piece of box or other wood for engravers' work. |
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. |
Block (v. t.) A blockhead |
Block (v. t.) A section of a railroad where the block system is used. See Block system, below. |
Block (n.) To obstruct so as to prevent passage or progress |
Block (n.) To secure or support by means of blocks |
Block (n.) To shape on, or stamp with, a block |
Block book () A book printed from engraved wooden blocks instead of movable types. |
Block tin () See under Tin. |
Brazil wood () The wood of the oriental Caesalpinia Sapan |
Brazil wood () A very heavy wood of a reddish color, imported from Brazil and other tropical countries, for cabinet-work, and for dyeing. The best is the heartwood of Caesalpinia echinata, a leguminous tree |
Calamander wood () A valuable furniture wood from India and Ceylon, of a hazel-brown color, with black stripes, very hard in texture. It is a species of ebony, and is obtained from the Diospyros quaesita. Called also Coromandel wood. |
Campeachy Wood () Logwood. |
Chinese (a.) Of or pertaining to China |
Chinese (n. sing. & pl.) A native or natives of China, or one of that yellow race with oblique eyelids who live principally in China. |
Chinese (n. sing. & pl.) The language of China, which is monosyllabic. |
Cocus wood () A West Indian wood, used for making flutes and other musical instruments. |
Fish-block (n.) See Fish-tackle. |
Gopher wood () A species of wood used in the construction of Noah's ark. |
Indo-Chinese (a.) Of or pertaining to Indo-China (i. e., Farther India, or India beyond the Ganges). |
Kiabooca wood () See Kyaboca wood. |
Kyaboca wood () Amboyna wood. |
Kyaboca wood () Sandalwood (Santalum album). |
Lingoa wood () Amboyna wood. |
Myall wood () A durable, fragrant, and dark-colored Australian wood, used by the natives for spears. It is obtained from the small tree Acacia homolophylla. |
Nicaragua wood () Brazil wood. |
Omander wood () The wood of Diospyros ebenaster, a kind of ebony found in Ceylon. |
Pillar-block (n.) See under Pillow. |
Plumber block () A pillow block. |
Rosetta wood () An east Indian wood of a reddish orange color, handsomely veined with darker marks. It is occasionally used for cabinetwork. |
Sapan wood () A dyewood yielded by Caesalpinia Sappan, a thorny leguminous tree of Southern Asia and the neighboring islands. It is the original Brazil wood. |
Sappan wood () Sapan wood. |
Sea wood louse () A sea slater. |
Shittim wood (n.) The wood of the shittah tree. |
Snatch block () a kind of block with an opening in one side to receive the bight of a rope. |
Stumbling-block (n.) Any cause of stumbling, perplexity, or error. |
Temple (n.) A contrivence used in a loom for keeping the web stretched transversely. |
Temple (n.) The space, on either side of the head, back of the eye and forehead, above the zygomatic arch and in front of the ear. |
block grant | a grant of federal money to state and local governments to support social welfare programs, block grants reduce federal responsibility for social welfare |
block vote | a vote proportional in magnitude to the number of people that a delegate represents |
Chinese checkers Chinese chequers | a board game in which each player tries to move a set of marbles through a set of holes from one point of a six-pointed star to the opposite point |
blocking block | the act of obstructing or deflecting someone's movements |
trap block | (American football) an illegal block |
Battle of the Marne Belleau Wood Chateau-Thierry Marne River | a World War I battle in northwestern France where the Allies defeated the Germans in |
Chinese Revolution | the republican revolution against the Manchu dynasty in China, - |
pewee peewee peewit pewit wood pewee Contopus virens | small oliveolored woodland flycatchers of eastern North America |
western wood pewee Contopus sordidulus | small flycatcher of western North America |
wood thrush Hylocichla mustelina | large thrush common in eastern American woodlands, noted for its melodious song |
wood warbler Phylloscopus sibilatrix | European woodland warbler with dull yellow plumage |
New World warbler wood warbler | small brightolored American songbird with a weak unmusical song |
wood swallow swallow shrike | Australasian and Asiatic bird related to the shrikes and resembling a swallow |
wood-frog wood frog Rana sylvatica | wideanging light-brown frog of moist North American woodlands especially spruce |
Chinese alligator Alligator sinensis | small alligator of the Yangtze valley of China having unwebbed digits |
wood tick American dog tick Dermacentor variabilis | common tick that can transmit Rocky Mountain spotted fever and tularemia |
capercaillie capercailzie horse of the wood Tetrao urogallus | large black Old World grouse |
wood pigeon ringdove cushat Columba palumbus | Eurasian pigeon with white patches on wings and neck |
wood hoopoe | tropical African bird having metallic blackish plumage but no crest |
wood duck summer duck wood widgeon Aix sponsa | showy North American duck that nests in hollow trees |
wood drake | male wood duck |
Chinese goose Anser cygnoides | very large wild goose of northeast Asia, interbreeds freely with the greylag |
wood ibis wood stork flinthead Mycteria americana | an American stork that resembles the true ibises in having a downwardurved bill, inhabits wooded swamps of New World tropics |
wood ibis wood stork Ibis ibis | any of several Old World birds of the genus Ibis |
weka maori hen wood hen | flightless New Zealand rail of thievish disposition having short wings each with a spur used in fighting |
wood ant Formica rufa | reddish-brown European ant typically living in anthills in woodlands |
dry-wood termite | any of various termites that live in and feed on dry wood that is not connected with the soil |
wood rabbit cottontail cottontail rabbit | common small rabbit of North America having greyish or brownish fur and a tail with a white underside, a host for Ixodes pacificus and Ixodes scapularis (Lyme disease ticks) |
European wood mouse Apodemus sylvaticus | nocturnal yellowish-brown mouse inhabiting woods and fields and gardens |
wood mouse | any of various New World woodland mice |
wood rat woodat | any of various small short-tailed rodents of the northern hemisphere having soft fur grey above and white below with furred tails and large ears, some are hosts for Ixodes pacificus and Ixodes scapularis (Lyme disease ticks) |
dusky-footed wood rat | a wood rat with dusky feet |
skunk polecat wood pussy | American musteline mammal typically ejecting an intensely malodorous fluid when startled, in some classifications put in a separate subfamily Mephitinae |
Chinese paddlefish Psephurus gladis | fish of larger rivers of China similar to the Mississippi paddlefish |
auction block block | a platform from which an auctioneer sells, they put their paintings on the block |
block | a solid piece of something (usually having flat rectangular sides), the pyramids were built with large stone blocks |
block | housing in a large building that is divided into separate units, there is a block of classrooms in the west wing |
blockage block closure occlusion stop stoppage | an obstruction in a pipe or tube, we had to call a plumber to clear out the blockage in the drainpipe |
block and tackle | pulley blocks with associated rope or cable |
block diagram | a diagram showing the interconnections between the components of system (especially an electronic system) |
block plane | a small plane used on end grains of wood |
bollock bullock block | a pulley-block at the head of a topmast |
building block | a block of material used in construction work |
butcher board butcher block | a thick wooden slab formed by bonding together thick laminated strips of unpainted hardwood |
Chinese lantern | a collapsible paper lantern in bright colors, used for decorative purposes |
Chinese puzzle | intricate or ingenious puzzle consisting of boxes within boxes |
Chinese Wall Great Wall Great Wall of China | a fortification , miles long built across northern China in the rd century BC, it averages meters in width |
chopping block | a steady wooden block on which food can be cut or diced or wood can be split |
cinder block clinker block breeze block | a light concrete building block made with cinder aggregate, cinder blocks are called breeze blocks in Britain |
cube square block | a block in the (approximate) shape of a cube |