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from Slock. Slocking stone, a rich piece of ore displayed in order to tempt persons to embark in a mining enterprise.

a kind of block with an opening in one side to receive the bight of a rope.

An instrument for ascertaining the velocity of the blood in a vessel.

f stumbling, perplexity, or error. We preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews a stumbling-block, and unto the Greeks foolishness. 1 Cor. i. 23.

An entangled lock, as of hair or wool. Nares.

A block with a tail. See Tail, 9.

A plant, the star-of-Bethlehem. See under Star.

A large ironbound block strapped with a hook, and, when used, hung to an eyebolt in the cap, -- used in swaying and lowering the topmast. Totten.

A lock of wool hanging under the belly of a sheep.

A person who inspects a mine daily; -- called also underviewer.

To unfasten, as what is locked; as, to unlock a door or a chest.

To lock up. [Obs.] Shak.

A clock whose decorative case has the general form of a vase, esp. one in which there is no ordinary dial, but in which a part of a vase revolves while a single stationary indicator serves as a hand.

zard; a sprite; an imp. [Written also warluck.] Dryden. It was Eyvind Kallda's crew Of warlocks blue, With their caps of darkness hooded! Longfellow.

Impishness; magic.

An instrument or machine serving to measure time by the fall, or flow, of a certain quantity of water; a clepsydra.

A poisonous umbelliferous plant (Cicuta virosa) of Europe; also, any one of several plants of that genus.

of marriage; matrimony. "That blissful yoke . . . that men clepeth [call] spousal, or wedlock." Chaucer. For what is wedlock forced but a hell, An age of discord or continual strife Shak.

A lock, as on a canal, in which boats are weighed and their tonnage is settled.

The middle subdivision of the Upper Silurian in Great Britain; -- so named from the typical locality in Shropshire.