Blockade runner

( Naut.) The name generally given to a cla of ve els built for the special object of running into a blockaded port. IMG:content-0653.jpg:[ocr errors] Block-cor'nice, Block-entab'lature, ( Arch .) Ornamentation frequently used to finish plain buildings where none of the regular orders have been employed. Of this kind there is a very beautiful exam- ple composed by Vignola, much used in Italy, and em- ployed by Sir Christopher Wren to finish the second de- sign of St. Paul's Cathedral, London. or framed; as, a hat- block. "For want of a block he will stumble at a straw." are either of the animal, vegetable, or mineral kingdom. -A biock of wood used for decapitating criminals. The following are the chief articles used for that pur"I'll drag him thence, pose: Spanish flies, or cantharides; mustard, euphorbium, mezereon, savin, croton oil, common nettle, and steam; tartrate of antimony, nitrate of silver, ammonia, nitric acid, acetic acid, and caustic potash. - B. are applied either in the form of a plaster, or in the liquid state, as may suit the convenience of the operator. Their object is to draw away, by counter-irritation, any inflammatory action from a part to which direct remedies cannot be applied. Latterly they have been greatly used for the purpose of dispersing glandular tumors, and also for indolent ulcers. B. made from cantharides, when applied for too great length of time, produce dis- -A blockhead; an obtuse fellow. (o.) "He wears his faith but as the fashion of his hat; it ever changes with the next block." Shaks. tre ing affections of the urinary bladder. A piece of v. i. To rise in blisters. "Embrace thy knees with loathing hands, Which blister when they touch thee."-Dryden. -v. a. To raise a blister or blisters; to apply a blistering plaster to the skin. - To injure or cause pain to, as if by a blister. "A gentlewoman of mine, who.... hath blister'd her report." Shaks. Blister-beetle, Blister-fly, n. (Zool.) See CAN THARIS.