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A section of a railroad where the block system is used. See Block system, below. A block of shares (Stock Exchange), a large number of shares in a stock company, sold in a lump. Bartlett. -- Block printing. (a) A mode of printing (common in China and Japan) from engraved boards by means of a sheet of paper laid on the…

A weak point; a failing; an exposed point or mark.

ck, Blue stone, blue vitriol; sulphate of copper. -- Blue jacket, a man-of war's man; a sailor wearing a naval uniform. -- Blue jaundice. See under Jaundice. -- Blue laws, a name first used in the eighteenth century to describe certain supposititious laws of extreme rigor reported to have been enacted in New Haven;…

One dressed in blue, as a soldier, a sailor, a beadle, etc.

New Jersey and Rhode Island coast it is called the horse mackerel, in Virginia saltwater tailor, or skipjack.

A moral stain or blot. Lest she . . . will with her railing set a great blur on mine honesty and good name. Udall.

To enter, as a railway car. [Colloq. U. S.]

f a ship to prevent an enemy from boarding it. -- Boarding pike (Naut.), a pike used by sailors in boarding a vessel, or in repelling an attempt to board it. Totten. -- Boarding school, a school in which pupils receive board and lodging as well as instruction.

A small open vessel, or water craft, usually moved by cars or paddles, but often by a sail.

The act or practice of rowing or sailing, esp. as an amusement; carriage in boats.

An officer who has charge of the boats, sails, rigging, colors, anchors, cables, cordage, etc., of a ship, and who also summons the crew, and performs other duties.

abrupt motion, as at the end of a string; a pendant; as, the bob at the end of a kite's tail. In jewels dressed and at each ear a bob. Dryden.

A short wig with bobs or short curls; -- called also bobtail wig. Spectator.

certain amount of play around a vertical axis, used to support in part a locomotive on a railway track.

mass of dead tissue, called the core. A blind boil, one that suppurates imperfectly, or fails to come to a head. -- Delhi boil (Med.), a peculiar affection of the skin, probably parasitic in origin, prevailing in India (as among the British troops) and especially at Delhi.

Swollen; puffed out. Thin, and boln out like a sail. B. Jonson.

The crossbeam forming the bearing piece of the body of a railway car; the central and principal cross beam of a car truck.

A rope stitched to the edges of a sail to strengthen the sail.

a government or a corporation for purpose of borrowing money; as, a government, city, or railway bond.

An additional piece of canvas laced to the foot of a jib or foresail in moderate winds. Hakluyt.