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- Block - v. t. - A piece of wood more or less bulky; a solid mass of wood, stone, etc., usually with one or more plane, or approximately plane, faces; as, a block on which a butcher chops his meat; a block by which to mount a horse; children's playing blocks, etc.
- Block - v. t. - The solid piece of wood on which condemned persons lay their necks when they are beheaded.
- Block - v. t. - The wooden mold on which hats, bonnets, etc., are shaped.
- Block - v. t. - The pattern or shape of a hat.
- Block - v. t. - A large or long building divided into separate houses or shops, or a number of houses or shops built in contact with each other so as to form one building; a row of houses or shops.
- Block - v. t. - A square, or portion of a city inclosed by streets, whether occupied by buildings or not.
- Block - v. t. - A grooved pulley or sheave incased in a frame or shell which is provided with a hook, eye, or strap, by which it may be attached to an object. It is used to change the direction of motion, as in raising a heavy object that can not be conveniently reached, and also, when two or more such sheaves are compounded, to change the rate of motion, or to exert increased force; -- used especially in the rigging of ships, and in tackles.
- Block - v. t. - The perch on which a bird of prey is kept.
- Block - v. t. - Any obstruction, or cause of obstruction; a stop; a hindrance; an obstacle; as, a block in the way.
- Block - v. t. - A piece of box or other wood for engravers' work.
- Block - v. t. - A piece of hard wood (as mahogany or cherry) on which a stereotype or electrotype plate is mounted to make it type high.
- Block - v. t. - A blockhead; a stupid fellow; a dolt.
- Block - v. t. - A section of a railroad where the block system is used. See Block system, below.
- Block - n. - To obstruct so as to prevent passage or progress; to prevent passage from, through, or into, by obstructing the way; -- used both of persons and things; -- often followed by up; as, to block up a road or harbor.
- Block - n. - To secure or support by means of blocks; to secure, as two boards at their angles of intersection, by pieces of wood glued to each.
- Block - n. - To shape on, or stamp with, a block; as, to block a hat.
- Block book - - A book printed from engraved wooden blocks instead of movable types.
- Block tin - - See under Tin.
- Blockade - v. t. - The shutting up of a place by troops or ships, with the purpose of preventing ingress or egress, or the reception of supplies; as, the blockade of the ports of an enemy.
- Blockade - v. t. - An obstruction to passage.
- Blockade - v. t. - To shut up, as a town or fortress, by investing it with troops or vessels or war for the purpose of preventing ingress or egress, or the introduction of supplies. See note under Blockade, n.
- Blockade - n. - Hence, to shut in so as to prevent egress.
- Blockade - n. - To obstruct entrance to or egress from.
- Blockaded - imp. & p. p. - of Blockade
- Blockader - n. - One who blockades.
- Top - n. - A plug, or conical block of wood, with longitudital grooves on its surface, in which the strands of the rope slide in the process of twisting.
- Glut - n. - A block used for a fulcrum.
- Herisson - n. - A beam or bar armed with iron spikes, and turning on a pivot; -- used to block up a passage.
- Mutule - n. - A projecting block worked under the corona of the Doric corice, in the same situation as the modillion of the Corinthian and Composite orders. See Illust. of Gutta.
- Modillion - n. - The enriched block or horizontal bracket generally found under the cornice of the Corinthian and Composite entablature, and sometimes, less ornamented, in the Ionic and other orders; -- so called because of its arrangement at regulated distances.
- Abutment - n. - In breech-loading firearms, the block behind the barrel which receives the pressure due to recoil.
- Pointing - n. - The act or process of measuring, at the various distances from the surface of a block of marble, the surface of a future piece of statuary; also, a process used in cutting the statue from the artist's model.
- Plug - n. - A block of wood let into a wall, to afford a hold for nails.
- Brace - n. - A rope reeved through a block at the end of a yard, by which the yard is moved horizontally; also, a rudder gudgeon.
- Trig - n. - A stone, block of wood, or anything else, placed under a wheel or barrel to prevent motion; a scotch; a skid.
- Euphroe - n. - A block or long slat of wood, perforated for the passage of the crowfoot, or cords by which an awning is held up.
- Chipping - n. - The act or process of cutting or breaking off small pieces, as in dressing iron with a chisel, or reducing a timber or block of stone to shape.
- Patch - n. - A block on the muzzle of a gun, to do away with the effect of dispart, in sighting.
- Burton - n. - A peculiar tackle, formed of two or more blocks, or pulleys, the weight being suspended to a hook block in the bight of the running part.
- Juggle - n. - A block of timber cut to a length, either in the round or split.
- Fid - n. - A block of wood used in mounting and dismounting heavy guns.
- Choke - v. t. - To obstruct by filling up or clogging any passage; to block up.
- Step - v. i. - In general, a framing in wood or iron which is intended to receive an upright shaft; specif., a block of wood, or a solid platform upon the keelson, supporting the heel of the mast.
- Swallow - n. - The aperture in a block through which the rope reeves.
- Quadrat - n. - A block of type metal lower than the letters, -- used in spacing and in blank lines.
- Bolster - n. - A block of wood on the carriage of a siege gun, upon which the breech of the gun rests when arranged for transportation.
- Plane - a. - A block or plate having a perfectly flat surface, used as a standard of flatness; a surface plate.
- Bed - n. - The place or material in which a block or brick is laid.
- Block - n. - To obstruct so as to prevent passage or progress; to prevent passage from, through, or into, by obstructing the way; -- used both of persons and things; -- often followed by up; as, to block up a road or harbor.
- Broach - n. - To shape roughly, as a block of stone, by chiseling with a coarse tool.
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- H1848 דׇּפִי - 1848 דׇּפִי - דׇּפִי - - dophîy - dof'-ee - from an unused root (meaning to push over); a stumbling-block; slanderest. - Noun Masculine - heb
- H4384 מַכְשֵׁלָה - 4384 מַכְשֵׁלָה - מַכְשֵׁלָה - - makshêlâh - mak-shay-law' - feminine from כָּשַׁל; a stumbling-block, but only figuratively (fall, enticement (idol)); ruin, stumbling-block. - Noun Feminine - heb
- H4383 מִכְשׁוֹל - 4383 מִכְשׁוֹל - מִכְשׁוֹל - - mikshôwl - mik-shole' - or מִכְשֹׁל; masculine from כָּשַׁל; a stumbling-block, literally or figuratively (obstacle, enticement (specifically an idol), scruple); caused to fall, offence, [idiom] (no-) thing offered, ruin, stumbling-block. - Noun Masculine - heb
- G3474 μωρός - 3474 μωρός - ΜΩΡΌΣ - - mōrós - mo-ros' - probably from the base of μυστήριον; dull or stupid (as if shut up), i.e. heedless, (morally) blockhead, (apparently) absurd:--fool(-ish, X -ishness). - Adjective - greek
- G4033 περικυκλόω - 4033 περικυκλόω - ΠΕΡΙΚΥΚΛΌΩ - - perikyklóō - per-ee-koo-klo'-o - from περί and κυκλόω; to encircle all around, i.e. blockade completely:--compass round. - Verb - greek
- G5420 φράσσω - 5420 φράσσω - ΦΡΆΣΣΩ - - phrássō - fras'-so - apparently a strengthening form of the base of φρήν; to fence or inclose, i.e. (specially), to block up (figuratively, to silence):--stop. - Verb - greek
- G4348 πρόσκομμα - 4348 πρόσκομμα - ΠΡΌΣΚΟΜΜΑ - - próskomma - pros'-kom-mah - from προσκόπτω; a stub, i.e. (figuratively) occasion of apostasy:--offence, stumbling(-block, (-stone)). - Noun Neuter - greek
- G4351 προσκυλίω - 4351 προσκυλίω - ΠΡΟΣΚΥΛΊΩ - - proskylíō - pros-koo-lee'-o - from πρός and κυλιόω; to roll towards, i.e. block against:--roll (to). - Verb - greek
- H6330 פּוּקָה - 6330 פּוּקָה - פּוּקָה - - pûwqâh - poo-kaw' - from פּוּק; a stumbling-block; grief. - Noun Feminine - heb
- G4625 σκάνδαλον - 4625 σκάνδαλον - ΣΚΆΝΔΑΛΟΝ - - skándalon - skan'-dal-on - ("scandal"); probably from a derivative of κάμπτω; a trap-stick (bent sapling), i.e. snare (figuratively, cause of displeasure or sin):--occasion to fall (of stumbling), offence, thing that offends, stumblingblock. - Noun Neuter - greek
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- Jeremiah 24 6:21 Therefore thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will lay stumblingblocks before this people, and the fathers and the sons together shall fall upon them; the neighbour and his friend shall perish.
אָמַר יְהֹוָה נָתַן מִכְשׁוֹל עַם אָב בֵּן יַחַד כָּשַׁל שָׁכֵן רֵעַ אָבַד - Zephaniah 36 1:3 I will consume man and beast; I will consume the fowls of the heaven, and the fishes of the sea, and the stumblingblocks with the wicked; and I will cut off man from off the land, saith the LORD.
סוּף אָדָם בְּהֵמָה סוּף עוֹף שָׁמַיִם דָּג יָם מַכְשֵׁלָה רָשָׁע כָּרַת אָדָם פָּנִים אֲדָמָה נְאֻם יְהֹוָה - Ezekiel 26 14:4 Therefore speak unto them, and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Every man of the house of Israel that setteth up his idols in his heart, and putteth the stumblingblock of his iniquity before his face, and cometh to the prophet; I the LORD will answer him that cometh according to the multitude of his idols;
דָבַר אָמַר אָמַר אֲדֹנָי יְהֹוִה אִישׁ בַּיִת יִשְׂרָאֵל עָלָה גִּלּוּל לֵב שׂוּם מִכְשׁוֹל עָוֺן נֹכַח פָּנִים בּוֹא נָבִיא יְהֹוָה עָנָה בּוֹא רֹב גִּלּוּל - Ezekiel 26 3:20 Again, When a righteous man doth turn from his righteousness, and commit iniquity, and I lay a stumblingblock before him, he shall die: because thou hast not given him warning, he shall die in his sin, and his righteousness which he hath done shall not be remembered; but his blood will I require at thine hand.
שׁוּב צַדִּיק שׁוּב צֶדֶק עָשָׂה עֶוֶל נָתַן מִכְשׁוֹל פָּנִים מוּת זָהַר מוּת חַטָּאָה צְדָקָה עָשָׂה זָכַר דָּם בָּקַשׁ יָד - Ezekiel 26 14:3 Son of man, these men have set up their idols in their heart, and put the stumblingblock of their iniquity before their face: should I be inquired of at all by them?
בֵּן אָדָם אֱנוֹשׁ עָלָה גִּלּוּל לֵב נָתַן מִכְשׁוֹל עָוֺן נֹכַח פָּנִים דָּרַשׁ דָּרַשׁ