Block tin

( Metal.) Tin cast into blocks or ingots. The tin which is sold in commerce under this name, is le pure than the grain - tin , being made from the common ore of the veins. The best qualities of this metal are the Banca, the Cornish, and the Spanish tin. - The term is also applied to articles of inferior value, which are made of iron-plate, covered with a coating of tin of variable thickne , according to their qualities. Block'ville, in New York , a P. O. of Chautauqua co. Blod'get Mills, in New York , a P. O. of Cortland co. Blois, ( blwa ,) a town of France, cap. dep. Loire et Cher, on the Loire, 35 m. S. W. of Orleans. B. is an old town, only remarkable for the beauty of its situation, its antiquity, its monuments, and the historical events of which it has been the theatre. At one extremity of the town is the castle, and at the other the cathedral. The former is an immense pile, built at different periods and in different styles of architecture. Louis XII. was born in this castle; and in it also Margaret d'Anjou was married to the Duc d'Alençon, and Margaret of Valois to Henry IV. But it derives its principal interest from events of a very different character. Here, in Dec., 1588, the Duc de Guise, and his brother the Cardinal, were basely murdered by the order, and almost in the presence, of Henry III. Queen Catherine de Medicis died here, and Maria Louisa held her court in it after the capitulation of Paris. It was since occupied as a barrack, but in 1880-87, was restored at great cost. Blomary, ( bloom'ary ,) n. [See BLOOM.] ( Metal .) The first forge in iron-smelting, through which the metal pa es after it has been smelted from the ore.