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A block, or ring, serving as a guide for the running rigging or for any rope.

Upon lessening interest to four per cent, you fall the price of your native commodities. Locke.

both as a protection and to increase the shio's lateral resistance. -- False key, a picklock. -- False leg. (Zoöl.) See Proleg. -- False membrane (Med.), the fibrinous deposit formed in croup and diphtheria, and resembling in appearance an animal membrane. -- False papers (Naut.), documents carried by a ship givin…

ssertion or representation; error; misrepresentation; falsity. Though it be a lie in the clock, it is but a falsehood in the hand of the dial when pointing at a wrong hour, if rightly following the direction of the wheel which moveth it. Fuller.

As things acquainted and familiar to us. Shak. There is nothing more familiar than this. Locke.

I have always had a fancy that learning might be made a play and recreation to children. Locke.

A projecting tooth or prong, as in a part of a lock, or the plate of a belt clamp, or the end of a tool, as a chisel, where it enters the handle.

s, to dress, dance, sing, ride, etc., in the fashion. The innocent diversions in fashion. Locke. As now existing, fashion is a form of social regulation analogous to constitutional government as a form of political regulation. H. Spencer.

To fix firmly; to make fast; to secure, as by a knot, lock, bolt, etc.; as, to fasten a chain to the feet; to fasten a door or window.

Anything that binds and makes fast, as a lock, catch, bolt, bar, buckle, etc.

Love locks. [Obs.] Wright. Challenge to the favor or for favor (Law), the challenge of a juror on grounds not sufficient to constitute a principal challenge, but sufficient to give rise to a probable suspicion of favor or bias, such as acquaintance, business relation, etc. See Principal challenge, under Challenge. --…

Feigned; counterfeit. [Obs.] Dressed up into any feint appearance of it. Locke.

To clot or mat together like felt. His feltered locks that on his bosom fell. Fairfax.

A projection on the bolt, which passes through the tumbler gates in locking and unlocking.

nt of terms, and being able to fend . . . with them, passes for a great part of learning. Locke.

the breech of a breech-loading firearm, in artillery consisting principally of the breechblock, obturator, and carrier ring.

Having the color of a faded leaf. Locke.

A block of wood used in mounting and dismounting heavy guns.

carabid beetle (Damaster blaptoides); -- so called from the form of the body. -- Fiddle block (Naut.), a long tackle block having two sheaves of different diameters in the same plane, instead of side by side as in a common double block. Knight. -- Fiddle bow, fiddlestick. -- Fiddle fish (Zoöl.), the angel fish. --…

Not literal; figurative. [Obs.] Locke.