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System
·noun The collection of staves which form a full score. ·see <<Score>>, ·noun.
II. System ·noun Reg...
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system
The method of disposing the correlative parts of a fortification, proposed variously by many eminent...
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Block
·add. ·noun A block hole.
II. Block ·vt The pattern or shape of a hat.
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block
A term applied in America to a square mass of houses included between four streets. It is a very use...
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block
I.
(In mechanics termed a pulley.) Blocks are flattish oval pieces of wood, with sheaves in them, ...
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block and block
The situation of a tackle when the blocks are drawn close together, so that the mechanical power bec...
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Ardois system
·add. ·- A widely used system of electric night signals in which a series of double electric lamps (...
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Autokinetic system
·add. ·- In fire-alarm telegraphy, a system so arranged that when one alarm is being transmitted, no...
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Automixte system
·add. ·- A system (devised by Henri Pieper, a Belgian) of driving automobiles employing a gasoline e...
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Bertillon system
·add. ·- A system for the identification of persons by a physical description based upon anthropomet...
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Cascade system
·add. ·- A system or method of connecting and operating two induction motors so that the primary cir...
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Case system
·add. ·- The system of teaching law in which the instruction is primarily a historical and inductive...
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Chautauqua system
(of education) ·add. ·- The system of home study established in connection with the summer schools a...
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Conduit system
·add. ·- A system of electric traction, ·esp. for light railways, in which the actuating current pas...
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Continental system
·add. ·- The system of commercial blockade aiming to exclude England from commerce with the Continen...
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Contract system
·add. ·- The sweating system.
II. Contract system ·add. ·- The system of employing convicts by sell...
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Crofton system
·add. ·- A system of prison discipline employing for consecutive periods cellular confinement, assoc...
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Delsarte system
·add. ·- A system of calisthenics patterned on the theories of Fran/ois Delsarte (1811 - 71), a Fren...
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Ganz system
·add. ·- A haulage system for canal boats, in which an electric locomotive running on a monorail has...
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Marconi system
·add. ·- A system or wireless telegraphy developed by G. Marconi, an Italian physicist, in which Her...
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Metric system
·- ·see <<Metric>>, ·adj.
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Tandem system
·add. ·- = Cascade system.
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Torrens system
·add. ·- A system of registration of titles to land (as distinct from registration of deeds) introdu...
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graham system
A system of dietetics recommended by Sylvester Graham, a lecturer of some celebrity on temperance an...
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binary system
When two stars forming a double-star are found to revolve about each other.
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copernican system
The Pythagorean system of the universe, revived by Copernicus in the sixteenth century, and now conf...
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solar system
The sun, planets, and comets, which are assumed to form a system, independent of the surrounding fix...
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ternary system
Three stars in close proximity, and found to be in physical connection, as, for instance, ζ Cancri.
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warehousing system
The use of bonding places under charge of officers of the customs, in which goods may be deposited, ...
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Belgian block
·add. ·- A nearly cubical block of some tough stone, ·esp. granite, used as a material for street pa...
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Block book
·- A book printed from engraved wooden blocks instead of movable types.
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Block chain
·add. ·- A chain in which the alternate links are broad blocks connected by thin side links pivoted ...
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Block signal
·add. ·- One of the danger signals or safety signals which guide the movement of trains in a block s...
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Block tin
·- ·see under <<Tin>>.
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Cautionary block
·add. ·- A block in which two or more trains are permitted to travel, under restrictions imposed by ...
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Fish-block
·noun ·see Fish-tackle.
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Pillar-block
·noun ·see under <<Pillow>>.
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Plumber block
·- A pillow block.
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Snatch block
·- a kind of block with an opening in one side to receive the bight of a rope.
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Stumbling-block
·noun Any cause of stumbling, perplexity, or error.
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Top-block
·noun A large ironbound block strapped with a hook, and, when used, hung to an eyebolt in the cap, —...
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block houses
Prisons, houses of correction, &c.
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upping block
(Called in some counties a leaping stock, in others a jossing block.) Steps for mounting a horse. He...
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back-block
adj.
from the interior.
1891. Rolf Boldrewood, `Sydneyside Saxon,' vol. xii. p. 215:
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block-house
A small fort built of logs which project some six or eight feet over a wooden or stone foundation, f...
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horse-block
, HORSE-STONE, stone to mount on horseback. Lane.
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up-block
a horse-block, or horsing-block Glouc.
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yu-block
, yule-clog
Christmas-block.
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yule-block
, yule-clog
Christmas-block.
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block-maker
A manufacturer of blocks.
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built-block
Synonymous with made-block (which see). The lower masts of large ships are built or made.
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bushed-block
See coak.
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cat-block
A two or three fold block, with an iron strop and large hook to it, which is employed to cat or draw...
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d-block
A lump of oak in the shape of a D, bolted to the ship's side in the channels to reeve the lifts thro...
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double-block
One fitted with a couple of sheaves, in holes side by side.
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fiddle-block
A long shell, having one sheave over the other, and the lower smaller than the upper (see long-tackl...
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fly-block
The block spliced into the topsail-tye; it is large and flat, and sometimes double.
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hook-block
Any block, of iron or wood, strapped with a hook.
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jack-block
A block occasionally attached to the topgallant-tie, and through which the top-gallant top-rope is r...
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monkey-block
A small single block strapped with a swivel. Also, those nailed on the topsail-yards of some merchan...
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notch-block
See snatch-block.
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rack-block
A range of sheaves cut in one piece of wood, for running ropes to lead through.
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cistern block
See sister block
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sister block
or cistern block
A turned cylindrical block having two sheave-holes, one above the other. It fits ...
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snatch-block
A single iron-bound block, with an opening in one side above the sheave, in which the bight of a rop...
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tail-block
A rope-stropped block, having an end of rope attached to it as a tail, by which it may be fastened t...
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top-block
A large single block with an iron strop and hook, by which it is hooked into an eye-bolt under the l...
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treble-block
One fitted with three sheaves or rollers.
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tye-block
The block on the yard through which the tye is rove, and passes on to be secured at the mast-head. T...
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warping-block
A block made of ash or elm, used in rope-making for warping off yarn.
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Third-rail system
·add. ·- A system in which a third rail is used for carrying the current for operating the motors, t...
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block, on the
1) On the promenade above referred to.
1896. `The Argus,' July 17, p. 4. col. 7:
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chock-a-block
, or chock and block
Is the same with block-a-block and two-blocks (which see). When the lower blo...
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main-tack block
A block forming part of the purchase used for hauling the main-tack down to.
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nine-pin block
A block in that form, mostly used for a fair-leader under the cross-pieces of the forecastle and qua...
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strop-bound block
A single block used in the clue of square-sails for the clue-lines to lead through; it has a shoulde...
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Bell system of control
·add. ·- ·see <<Cloche>>.
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system of the universe
See copernican system.
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jaw of a block
The space in the shell where the sheave revolves.
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score of a block, or of a dead eye
The groove round which the rope passes.
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shell of a block
The outer frame or case wherein the sheave or wheel is contained and traverses about its axis.
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thick and thin block
, or fiddle-block.
A block having one sheave larger than the other, sometimes used for quarter-blo...
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Three-torque system of control
·add. ·- Any system of rudders by which the pilot can exert a turning moment about each of the three...
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eye of a block-strop
That part by which it is fastened or suspended to any particular place upon the sails, masts, or rig...
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