These are the meanings of the letters CLICBOK when you unscramble them.
- 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 (v. t.)
A blockhead; a stupid fellow; a dolt.
- 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.)
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 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 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.)
A section of a railroad where the block system is used. See Block system, below.
- Block (v. t.)
A square, or portion of a city inclosed by streets, whether occupied by buildings or not.
- Block (v. t.)
Any obstruction, or cause of obstruction; a stop; a hindrance; an obstacle; as, a block in the way.
- Block (v. t.)
The pattern or shape of a hat.
- Block (v. t.)
The perch on which a bird of prey is kept.
- 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.
- bocci (unknown)
Sorry. I don't have the meaning of this word.
- Cibol (n.)
A perennial alliaceous plant (Allium fistulosum), sometimes called Welsh onion. Its fistular leaves areused in cookery.
- Click (n.)
A detent, pawl, or ratchet, as that which catches the cogs of a ratchet wheel to prevent backward motion. See Illust. of Ratched wheel.
- Click (n.)
A kind of articulation used by the natives of Southern Africa, consisting in a sudden withdrawal of the end or some other portion of the tongue from a part of the mouth with which it is in contact, whereby a sharp, clicking sound is produced. The sounds are four in number, and are called cerebral, palatal, dental, and lateral clicks or clucks, the latter being the noise ordinarily used in urging a horse forward.
- Click (n.)
A slight sharp noise, such as is made by the cocking of a pistol.
- Click (n.)
The latch of a door.
- Click (v. i.)
To make a slight, sharp noise (or a succession of such noises), as by gentle striking; to tick.
- Click (v. t.)
To cause to make a clicking noise, as by striking together, or against something.
- Click (v. t.)
To move with the sound of a click.
- Click (v. t.)
To snatch.
- Clock (n.)
A figure or figured work on the ankle or side of a stocking.
- Clock (n.)
A large beetle, esp. the European dung beetle (Scarabaeus stercorarius).
- Clock (n.)
A machine for measuring time, indicating the hour and other divisions by means of hands moving on a dial plate. Its works are moved by a weight or a spring, and it is often so constructed as to tell the hour by the stroke of a hammer on a bell. It is not adapted, like the watch, to be carried on the person.
- Clock (n.)
A watch, esp. one that strikes.
- Clock (n.)
The striking of a clock.
- Clock (v. t.)
To ornament with figured work, as the side of a stocking.
- Clock (v. t. & i.)
To call, as a hen. See Cluck.
- Colic (a.)
Of or pertaining to colic; affecting the bowels.
- Colic (a.)
Of or pertaining to the colon; as, the colic arteries.
- Colic (n.)
A severe paroxysmal pain in the abdomen, due to spasm, obstruction, or distention of some one of the hollow viscera.