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A blockhead. [Colloq. & Obs.] H. Taylor.

A dunce; a blockhead. Sir T. North.

A blockhead; a dunce; a numskull. Shak. Milton.

A blockhead. [Obs.]

A dull, silent person; a blockhead. [Obs.] Spenser.

A simpleton; a blockhead; a stupid person; a ninny. [Low] The chuckling grin of noodles. Sydney Smith.

A dolt; a blockhead. [Obs.] Bp. Parker.

Literally, the head of an ox (emblem of cuckoldom); hence, a dolt; a blockhead. Dost make a mummer of me, oxhead Marston.

make rhymes, or verses. "Thou shalt no longer ryme." Chaucer. There marched the bard and blockhead, side by side, Who rhymed for hire, and patronized for pride. Pope.

A fool; a blockhead. [R.] Shak. Half snipe, the dunlin; the jacksnipe. -- Jack snipe. See Jacksnipe. -- Quail snipe. See under Quail. -- Robin snipe, the knot. -- Sea snipe. See in the Vocabulary. -- Shore snipe, any sandpiper. -- Snipe hawk, the marsh harrier. [Prov. Eng.] -- Stone snipe, the tattler. -- Summer…

A stupid person; a blockhead; a dull fellow; a dolt. [Obs.] outh. In Egypt oft has seen the sot bow down, And reverence some dOldham.

A log; a block; a blockhead. [Obs.] Milton.

ubmit that a wooden spoon of our day would not be justified in calling Galileo and Napier blockheads because they never heard of the differential calculus. Macaulay.

A dunce; a blockhead. [Scot.]

.), a species of cress of the genus Senebiera (S. Coronopus). -- Swine's head, a dolt; a blockhead. [Obs.] Chaucer. -- Swine thistle (Bot.), the sow thistle.

A dullard, or dull person; a blockhead; a numskull. Entick.

A blockhead, or stupid person; a dunderhead. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

One destitute of wit or sense; a blockhead; a fool. [Obs.] Shak.

ubmit that a wooden spoon of our day would not be justified in calling Galileo and Napier blockheads because they never heard of the differential calculus." Macaulay. (b) In some American colleges, the lowest appointee of the junior year; sometimes, one especially popular in his class, without reference to scholarship.…