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To cut, pare, gouge, or engrave with a chisel; as, to chisel a block of marble into a statue.

To stop or fasten, as with a wedge, or block; to scotch; as, to chock a wheel or cask.

To obstruct by filling up or clogging any passage; to block up. Addison.

Act of cutting by strokes. Chopping block, a solid block of wood on which butchers and others chop meat, etc. -- Chopping knife, a knife for chopping or mincing meat, vegetables, etc.; -- usually with a handle at the back of the blade instead of at the end.

s cut, painted, written, or stamped on certain objects, -- sometimes as the sign of 12 o'clock on a dial. The fescue of the dial is upon the christcross of noon. Old Play. Nares.

asuring or recording intervals of time, upon a revolving drum or strip of paper moved by clockwork. The action of the stylus or pen is controlled by electricity.

d in chronology. That learned noise and dust of the chronologist is wholly to be avoided. Locke. THe most exact chronologers tell us that Christ was born in October, and not in December. John Knox.

a genus of poisonous umbelliferous plants, of which the water hemlock or cowbane is best known.

The active principle of the water hemlock (Cicuta) extracted as a poisonous gummy substance.

he form of a circle; that which encircles, as a ring, a bracelet, or a headband. Her fair locks in circlet be enrolled. Spenser.

One who travels a circuit, as a circuit judge. [R.] R. Whitlock.

Having curled locks of hair; supporting cirri, or hairlike appendages.

Blockhead; dunce; -- so called because the handle of a cittern usually ended with a carved head. Marsion

claim. We must know how the first ruler, from whom any one claims, came by his authority. Locke.

for an evil purpose; kept secret; hidden; private; underhand; as, a clandestine marriage. Locke.

often followed by to, into, on, or upon. He had just time to get in and clap to the door. Locke Clap an extinguaisher upon your irony. Lamb.

Clasp knife, a large knife, the blade of which folds or shuts into the handle. -- Clasp lock, a lock which closes or secures itself by means of a spring.

with of, off, away, or out. Clear your mind of cant. Dr. Johnson. A statue lies hid in a block of marble; and the art of the statuary only clears away the superfluous matter. Addison.

A water clock; a contrivance for measuring time by the graduated flow of a liquid, as of water, through a small aperture. See Illust. in Appendix.

quare sails, as topsail, topgallant sail, or royal, is run up to its yard. -- Clew-line block (Naut.), The block through which a clew line reeves. See Illust. of Block.