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A young bull, or any male of the ox kind. Take thy father's young bullock, even the second bullock of seven years old. Judges vi. 25.

See Bull's-eye, 3.

A sort of Russian isinglass, made from the air bladder of the sturgeon, and used in clarifying wine.

A block in which two or more trains are permitted to travel, under restrictions imposed by a caution card or the like.

llow flowers; wild mustard. It is troublesome in grain fields. Called also chardock, chardlock, chedlock, and kedlock. Jointed charlock, White charlock, a troublesome weed (Raphanus Raphanistrum) with straw- colored, whitish, or purplish flowers, and jointed pods: wild radish.

Hoisted as high as the tackle will admit; brought close together, as the two blocks of a tackle in hoisting.

The striking of a clock. [Obs.] Dryden.

Like a clock or like clockwork; mechanical. Their services are clocklike, to be set Blackward and vorward at their lord's command. B. Jonson.

Like the motion of the hands of a clock; -- said of that direction of a rotation about an axis, or about a point in a plane, which is ordinarily reckoned negative.

The machinery of a clock, or machinary resembling that of a clock; machinery which produced regularity of movement.

A dirty or clotted lock of wool on a sheep; a taglock.

A lock which is not self-latching, but requires a key to throw the bolt forward.

To lock with two bolts; to fasten with double security. Tatler.

A lock or curl of hair near the ear; a lovelock. See Lovelock.

Hair matted, or twisted into a knot, as if by elves.

To lock; to inclose.

great pastern bone and the metacarpus), or the tuft of hair. Their wounded steeds Fret fetlock deep in gore. Shak.

An old form of gunlock, as the flintlock, which ignites the priming by a spark; perhaps originally, a matchlock. Hence, a gun having such a lock.

See Fish-tackle.

A lock for a gun or pistol, having a flint fixed in the hammer, which on stricking the steel ignites the priming.