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ith handle at right angles to the blade, for splitting cask staves and shingles from the block; a frower.

To batter; to break in pieces. [Obs.] I like thine armor well; I'll frush it and unlock the rivets all. Shak.

l consisting of small particles, as coal dust, sawdust, etc., consolidated into lumps or blocks.

. Every one is full of the miracles done by cold baths on decayed and weak constitutions. Locke.

A blockhead; a dolt; a fool. [Obs.] Burton.

Builders' hardware such as locks, door and window trimmings.

A flintlock gun. See 2d Fusil. [Obs.]

A light kind of flintlock musket, formerly in use.

A flock of wild geese. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

n making a hasty examination. Such superficial ideas he may collect in galloping over it. Locke.

A kind of wild goose, by a flock of which a virtuoso was fabled to be carried to the lunar world. [Also gansa.] Johnson.

A door, valve, or other device, for stopping the passage of water through a dam, lock, pipe, etc.

the poor. Prov. xxviii. 8. To pay the creditor . . . he must gather up money by degrees. Locke.

The quality of being gaudy. Whitlock.

o measure the dimensions of, or to test the accuracy of the form of, as of a part of a gunlock. The vanes nicely gauged on each side. Derham.

Same as Gavelock.

mel, under Gemel, a. Two gemels silver between two griffins passant. Strype. Gemel hinge (Locksmithing), a hinge consisting of an eye or loop and a hook. -- Gemel ring, a ring with two or more links; a gimbal. See Gimbal. -- Gemel window, a window with two bays.

cular. In particulars our knowledge begins, and so spreads itself by degrees to generals. Locke.

Joined work whose parts move within each other; a pair or series of interlocked rings.

r to give in to those general phrases. Pope. -- To give off, to cease; to forbear. [Obs.] Locke. -- To give on or upon. (a) To rush; to fall upon. [Obs.] (b) To have a view of; to be in sight of; to overlook; to look toward; to open upon; to front; to face. [A Gallicism: cf. Fr. donner sur.] Rooms which gave upon a pi…