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A stupid fellow; a dolt; a person deficient in understanding. The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head. Pope.

Stupid; dull.

That which characterizes a blockhead; stupidity. Carlyle.

A stupid fellow; a blockhead. Sir W. Scott.

A blockhead; a stupid fellow; a dolt. [Obs.] What a block art thou ! Shak.

knowledge derived from books. [Often in a disparaging sense.] Whate'er these book-learned blockheads say, Solon's the veriest fool in all the play. Dryden.

Filled with book learning. [R.] "The bookful blockhead." Pope.

A blockhead; a dunce. It is common, to a proverb, to call one who can not be taught, or who continues obstinately ignorant, a buzzard. Goldsmith.

Blockhead; dunce; -- so called because the handle of a cittern usually ended with a carved head. Marsion

A blockhead; a dolt.

Hence: A blockhead; a lout. Hood.

A blockhead. [Obs.] [Written also dizard, and disard.] -- Diz"zard*ly, adv. [Obs.]

A stupid person; a fool; a blockhead. Some will say, our curate is naught, an ass-head, a dodipoll. Latimer.

A heavy, stupid fellow; a blockhead; a numskull; an ignoramus; a dunce; a dullard. This Puck seems but a dreaming dolt. Drayton.

A blockhead; a dolt. Ascham.

A dunce; a numskull; a blockhead. Beau. & Fl.

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

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

A foolish; a dolt; a blockhead; a dunce. Dryden.

A conceited dolt; a perverse blockhead. Jackass bark (Naut.), a three-masted vessel, with only the foremast square-rigged; a barkentine. -- Jackass deer (Zoöl.), the koba. -- Jackass hare, Jackass rabbit (Zoöl.). See Jack rabbit, under 2d Jack, n. -- Jackass penguin (Zoöl.), any species of penguin of the genus Sphen…