Block"age (&?;), n. The act of blocking up; the state of being blocked up.
Block" book` (&?;). A book printed from engraved wooden blocks instead of movable types.
Block"head` (&?;), n. [Block + head.] A stupid fellow; a dolt; a person deficient in understanding.
The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read,
With loads of learned lumber in his head.
Pope.
Block"head`ed, a. Stupid; dull.
Block"head*ism (&?;), n. That which characterizes a blockhead; stupidity. Carlyle.
Block"house` (&?;), n. [Block + house: cf. G. blockhaus.] 1. (Mil.) An edifice or structure of heavy timbers or logs for military defense, having its sides loopholed for musketry, and often an upper story projecting over the lower, or so placed upon it as to have its sides make an angle with the sides of the lower story, thus enabling the defenders to fire downward, and in all directions; -- formerly much used in America and Germany.