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m those of a simple or plain color or make. -- Fancy line (Naut.), a line rove through a block at the jaws of a gaff; -- used to haul it down. Fancy roller (Carding Machine), a clothed cylinder (usually having straight teeth) in front of the doffer. -- Fancy stocks, a species of stocks which afford great opportunity…

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

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. --…

A tackle or purchase used to raise the flukes of the anchor up to the gunwale. The block used is called the fish-block.

To draw apart the blocks of; -- said of a tackle. Totten.

A butcher. A flesher on a block had laid his whittle down. Macaulay.

A polishing block used in marble working; a runner. Knight.

uscarius), having a narcotic juice which, in sufficient quantities, is poisonous. -- Fly block (Naut.), a pulley whose position shifts to suit the working of the tackle with which it is connected; -- used in the hoisting tackle of yards. -- Fly board (Printing Press), the board on which printed sheets are deposited b…

A little fort; a blockhouse. [Obs.] Spenser.

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

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

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

A wooden wedge used in splitting blocks. [Prov. Eng.]

ll gold-colored beetle of the family Chrysomelidæ; -- called also golden beetle. -- Gold blocking, printing with gold leaf, as upon a book cover, by means of an engraved block. Knight. -- Gold cloth. See Cloth of gold, under Cloth. -- Gold Coast, a part of the coast of Guinea, in West Africa. -- Gold cradle. (Minin…

To cover, as a ring bolt, block strap, splicing, etc., with a weaving of small cord or rope-yarns.

A lazy person; a blockhead. [Obs.] Tusser.

re guardians by nature. -- viz., the father and (in some cases) the mother of the child. Blockstone. Guardian ad litem ( (Law), a guardian appointed by a court of justice to conduct a particular suit. -- Guardians of the poor, the members of a board appointed or elected to care for the relief of the poor within a tow…

eing a substitute for the parallel motion; -- called also guide, and slide bar. -- Guide block (Steam Engine), a block attached in to the crosshead to work in contact with the guide bar. -- Guide meridian. (Surveying) See under Meridian. -- Guide pile (Engin.), a pile driven to mark a place, as a point to work to.…

Exposure to any legal penalty or forfeiture. A ship incurs guilt by the violation of a blockade. Kent.