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A quarrel. [R.] Whitlock.

ak a rope or chain; to break a seal; to break an axle; to break rocks or coal; to break a lock. Shak.

y in referring to the method by which the movable barrels of breech- loading shotguns are locked, unlocked, or rotated to loading position.

ork. This contrivance, inclosing the person to be rescued, is hung by short ropes from a block which runs upon the hawser stretched from the ship to the shore, and is drawn to land by hauling lines. -- Breeches pipe, a forked pipe forming two branches united at one end. -- Knee breeches, breeches coming to the knee,…

His farm may not remove his children too far from him, or the trade he breeds them up in. Locke.

A block or clay tempered with water, sand, etc., molded into a regular form, usually rectangular, and sun-dried, or burnt in a kiln, or in a heap or stack called a clamp. The Assyrians appear to have made much less use of bricks baked in the furnace than the Babylonians. Layard.

The piece in the interior of a gun lock, which holds in place the timbler, sear, etc.

e. It seems so preposterous a thing . . . that they do not easily bring themselves to it. Locke. The nature of the things . . . would not suffer him to think otherwise, how, or whensoever, he is brought to reflect on them. Locke.

A block of compacted coal dust, or peat, etc., for fuel.

The pin in a lock which enters the barrel of the key.

, the precise meaning depending largely on the substantive. A broad mixture of falsehood. Locke.

That which is bred or produced; breed; species. Flocks of the airy brood, (Cranes, geese or long-necked swans). Chapman.

lant (Ruscus aculeatus) of the Smilax family, used by butchers for brooms to sweep their blocks; -- called also knee holly. See Cladophyll. -- Dyer's broom, a species of mignonette (Reseda luteola), used for dyeing yellow; dyer's weed; dyer's rocket. -- Spanish broom. See under Spanish.

To bound to limit; to be at, or form, the edge of. [R.] Tending my flocks hard by i' the hilly crofts That brow this bottom glade. Milton.

r yellow. Cheeks brown as the oak leaves. Longfellow. Brown Bess, the old regulation flintlock smoothbore musket, with bronzed barrel, formerly used in the British army. -- Brown bread (a) Dark colored bread; esp. a kind made of unbolted wheat flour, sometimes called in the United States Graham bread. "He would mouth…

Brown or, somewhat brown. "Browny locks." Shak.

; a beast. Brutes may be considered as either aëral, terrestrial, aquatic, or amphibious. Locke.

To cheat; to deceive. She has bubbled him out of his youth. Addison. The great Locke, who was seldom outwitted by false sounds, was nevertheless bubbled here. Sterne.

nuf.), a large circular boiler, or kier, used in bleaching. -- Bucking stool, a washing block.

url of hair, esp. a kind of crisp curl formerly worn; also, the state of being curled. Earlocks in tight buckles on each side of a lantern face. W. Irving. Lets his wig lie in buckle for a whole half year. Addison.