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Does Berger think the people of Wisconsin such blockheads that they will shy at a word like Bolshevism, but are unable to understand the plain, bold English of a conspiracy to bring about industrial organization "to wrest the industries and the control of the government of the United States" out of the hands of the American people and into the hands of a special class?

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_FOUR YEARS OF AGE_ (p. 28) _He that neer learns his A B C, For ever will a blockhead be; But he that learns these letters fair, Shall have a Coach to take the Air._ THE ROYAL BATTLEDORE.

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Another glance at the 'Break of Day,' and another exclamation: 'Too much blue, you blockhead!'

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How could he be such a blockhead as to reap no greater benefit from all his father's crimes and successes?"

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Puff'd up with pride and insolence, Without a grain of common sense, See with what consequence he stalks, With what pomposity he talks; See how the gaping crowd admire The stupid blockhead and the liar.

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'Not eleven inches, I am sure, you blockhead!

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* * * * * "I remember," said O'Connell, "being counsel at a special commission in Kerry against a Mr. S----, and having occasion to press him somewhat hard in my speech, he jumped up in the court, and called me 'a purse-proud blockhead.'

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I said to him, 'In the first place I have got no purse to be proud of; and, secondly, if I be a blockhead, it is better for you, as I am counsel against you.

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On second thoughts, you are to stay just where you are till that blockhead brings the ladder.

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At this came a most inopportune 'Haw-haw' from that blockhead Spenser Hale, completely spoiling the dramatic situation I had elaborated with such thought and care.

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So does all the world, except such blockheads as thyself and thy companions.'

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_Cuiff_, a blockhead.

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Take my word for it--if indeed I can be a fair witness--the man who has written a book, is above the unwriting average, and, as such, should be ranked mentally above them: no light research, and tact, and industry, and head-and-hand labour, are sufficient for a volume; even certain stolid performances in print do not shake my judgment; for arrant blockheads as sundry authors undoubtedly are, the average (mark, not all men, but the average) unwriting man is an author's intellectual inferior.

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"Away he went, I after him; and he burst into the battery like a storm, and roared out: "'Where's the blockhead who commands this battery?'

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_Sir Abel._ Blockhead!

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_Lady H._ A mumbling old blockhead!--Didn't you, Sir Abel?

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Do you think Blondel, who is on the point, Blondel, who will and will not and on whom all must turn, Blondel the upright, the impeccable, the patriotic, without whom we can do nothing, and who, I tell you, hangs in the balance--do you think he likes it, blockhead?

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"Then why mistrust me now, blockhead," the other retorted, "when I say that as I charmed her, I can charm Blondel?

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These blockheads will never forgive me for being a Frenchman, and for having, consequently, a predilection for France and her heroic emperor.

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He is deeply interested in the movements of the little ants, and as childish and ridiculous over them as if they were highly important.--There, you old blockhead, let them alone!"

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"I tell you what it is, Hollie," said the painter darkly, "whenever I'm with that girl I'm such a blockhead.

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But, look here, Billie," he added, with sudden brightness, "maybe you are not a blockhead, after all.

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But, considered generally, they are a collection of ingenious blockheads."

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"And I thought you were such a lot of blockheads."

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If he detected Branda Porro or Camutio in a blunder he would inform them they were blockheads without hesitation, and plume himself afterwards on the score of his blunt honesty.

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alas Hoyw, a. alert, sprightly, gay Hu, n. what is apt to pervade: a. apt to pervade; bold Huad, n. what cents; a hound Huadgu, n. a hound dog Huail, n. a vicegerent Hual, n. a fetter, a gyve Hualiad, n. a fettering Hualog, a. having fetters Hualu, v. to fetter, to shackle Huan, n. Phoebus, the sun Huano, a. harmonic; poetical Huarwar, a. soothing; calm Huawdl, a. eloquent Huawdledd, n. eloquence Hucan, n. a cob, a sea fowl Huch, n. a thin skin, a film Huchen, n. a film, a pellicle Huchiad, n. a skinning over Huchio, v. to skin over Hud, n. an illusion, a charm Hudo, v. to allure, to beguile Hudol, a. alluring, enticing Hudedd, n. allurement Hudiad, n. an alluring Hudoldeb, n. illusiveness Hudoles, n. a deceiver Hudoli, v. to render illusive Hudoliaeth, n. allurement Hudoliaethu, v. to use deception Hudwalch, n. a lure bird Hudwg, n. a bugbear Hudwy, n. a phantom Hudd, n. a covert, a shade: a dusky, dark, gloomy Huddo, v. to cover, to shade Huddol, a. covering, shading Huddedig, a. covered, shaded Huddiad, n. a covering Huddiannu, v. to overspread Huddiant, n. a shading over Huddig, a. tending to be dusky Huddwg, n. what is dusky Huddygl, n. soot, reek Huddyglyd, a. fuliginious, sooty Huenig, a. encircling Huenyd, n. what encircles Hufen, n. what mantles; cream Hufenaidd, a. like cream Hufeniad, n. a forming cream Hufenu, v. to gather cream Hufiad, n. a mantling over Hufio, v. to mantle over Hufyll, a. humble, submissive Hufylldod, a. humility Hug, n. a loose coat or gown Hugan, n. a loose coat Hugwd, n. a sceptre Hul, n. a cover, a coverlet Huliad, n. a decking Hulio, v. to spread over Huliwr, n. a decker Hulier, n. a cover, a lid Huling, n. a coverlet, a rug Hult, n. a dolt, a moper Hulyn, n. a coverlet, a quilt Hum, n. a bat, a racket Human, n. a tennis ball Humog, n. a bat, a racket Hun, n. a nap, a slumber Hun, n. one'self Hunan, n. self Hunanaeth, n. self; egotism Hunananog, v. to self-excite Hunander, n. selfishness Hunandwyll, n. self-deception Hunandyb, n. self-conceit Hunandyst, n. self evidence Hunanddoeth, a. self-wise Hunanedd, n. selfishness Hunanfarn, n. self-condemnation Hunanfawl, n. self-applause Hunanfod, n. self-existence Hunanfodd, n. self-pleasure Hunanfudd, n. self-interest Hunan-gar, a. selfish Hunan-gariad, n. self-love Hunan-gyfiawn, self-righteous Hunanhanfod, n. self-existence Hunanhyder, n. self confidence Hunaniad, a becoming selfish Hunaniaeth, n. identity Hunanladd, n. self-murder Hunanles, n. self-interest Hunanol, a. relating to self Hananoldeb, n. selfishness Hunanrediad, n. self-motion Hunanrith, n. self-evidence Hunanryw, n. homogeny, a. homogenous Hunansaf, n. self-standing Hunansymud, n. self-motion Hunanu, v. to egotise Hunanymmod, n. self-motion Hunanymwad, n. self-denial Hunanysol, a. self-devouring Hundy, n. dormitory Hunddwyn, a. sleep-depriving Hunedd, n. somnolence Hunell, n. a short sleep, a nap Hunfa, n. a dormitory Hun-glwyf, n. a legarthy Hunllef, n. the nightmare Huno, v. to sleep, to slumber Hunog, a. sleepy, drowsy Hunyn, n. a nap, a doze Huon, n. epithet for the Deity Hupynt, n. a brunt; a shock; a push; a metre so called Hur, n. wages, hire Huren, n. a prostitute, a slut Hurio, v. to hire Huriwr, n. a hirer Hurt, n. a block: a. stupid Hurtan, n. a blockhead Hurtiad, n. a stupifying Hurtio, v. to stupify Hurtiol, a. stupefactive Hurtyn, n. a blockhead Hurtr, n. a boarded floor Hurth, n. a block, a dolt Hurthgen, n. a blockhead Hurthiad, n. a stupifying Hurthio, v. to stupify Hust, n. a buzzing noise Hustiad, n. a making a buzz Husting, n. a buzz, a whisper Husting, v. to buzz, to whisper Hutan, n. an oaf; the dotterel Hutyn, n. a stupid fellow Huw, n. a lullaby, a lulla Huysgain, a. apt to scatter Huysgwn, a. apt to ascend Huysgwr, a. aptly energetic Hw, n. a hoot, a halloo Hwa, v. to hoot, to halloo Hwala, n. a halloo, a cry Hwau, n. a hooter; an owl Hwb, n. a push; an effort; a lift Hwbach, n. a quick effort Hwbiad, n. a pushing forward Hwbian, v. to be pushing on Hwca, what is hooked: a. hooking Hwch, n. a push, a thrust: a show Hwchw, a shout, a cry, a scream Hwd, n. a take off or away Hwda, n. a take off, a taking: v. imper.

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in the mean, in part, half, partly, almost Lledach, n. a mean descent Lledadnabod, v. to half-recognise Lledadwy, a. expansible Lledaddaw, v. to half-promise Lledaddef, a. half-ripe, ripe Lledagored, a. half-open Lledallu, v. partly to effect Lledammau, v. partly to suspect Lledan, n. breadth; a flounder Lledaniad, n. an expanding Lledanu, v. to make broad Lledawl, a. relating to breadth Lledben, n. a flat head Lledbrofi, v. partly to taste Lledbwyll, n. a half reason Lledchwelan, n. that is half open, or divided Lledechwyrch, a. half-stupified Lledewig, a. partly oosing Lledewigwst, n. hemorrhoids Lledfan, n. sprawl: a. sprawling Lledfarw, a. partly, or half dead Lledfeddw, a. half-drunk, tipsy Lledfegin, a. half-reared, half-domesticated, or tamed Lledfeginaw, v. to domesticate Lledfegyn, n. domestic animal Lledferwi, v. to parboil Lledfryd, n. listlessness Lledfrydig, a. apt to be listless Lledfrydu, v. to render listless; to be half-minded Lledfyw, a. half-alive; just dead Lledffrom, a. somewhat peevish Lledglaf, a. slightly diseased Lledgloff, a. somewhat lame Lledglywed, v. to hear partly Lledgoel, n. a slight belief Lledgofio, v. partly to remember Lledhynt, n. intent, purpose Llediad, n. a making broad Llediaith, n. corrupt speech Lledled, a. widely spreading Lledlef, n. imperfect utterance Lledlw, n. a vain swearing Llednais, a. elegant, nice, neat Lledneisrwydd, n. elegance Lledoer, a. half cold, lukewarm Lledofni, v. partly to fear Lledol, n. a rearward, a rear Lledorwedd, n. discumbency: v. partly to lie down Lledr, n. leather Lledrad, n. stealth, or theft Lledradol, a. stealing, thieving Lledrata, v. to steal, to thieve Lledred, n. latitude; broadness Lledriad, n. a doing with leather Lledrith, n. illusion, disguise Lledrithiad, n. appearing illusively Lledrithio, v. to appear illusively Lledrithiog, a. being half or partly visible Lledrwr, n. a manufacturer of leather; a leatherseller Lledryw, n. a mongrel kind: a. of degenerate kind Lledrywiad, n. a degenerating Lledrywiaw, v. to degenerate Lledrywiawl, a. degenerating Lledrywiogedd, n. degenerateness Lledrywiogi, v. to degenerate Lledu, v. to widen; to expand Lledw, n. profusion; enjoyment, a. profuse or abundant Lledwad, n. a ladle Lledwedd, n. latitude Lledwenu, v. smiling partly Lledwg, n. a slight frown, a. of a soft quality Lledwigen, n. a creeping thing Lledwigyn, n. a worm Lledwiriondeb, n. half-idiotism Lledwlyb, a. slightly wet Lledwr, n. a spreader Lledwydd, n. imperfect timber, or not good in kind Lledwyllt, a. rather wild Lledd, n. a flat, or a plain Lleddf, a. inclining, oblique Lleddfad, n. a drooping Lleddfod, n. assuagement Lleddfiad, n. a warping; a flattening; a softening Lleddfu, v. to warp; to flatten Lleddy, a inclining; drooping, flat; of a mild nature Lleen, a. literate, scholastic Lleen, n. literature, scholarship, erudition Lleenawg, a. literate, having scholarship, learned Lleenu, v. to pursue literature Lleenydd, n. a literary man Lleenyddawl, a. literary Lleenyddiaeth, n. scholarship Llef, n. a voice; a cry Llefad, n. a crying out Llefain, v. to cry aloud, to cry Llefar, n. utterance, voice Llefarwr, n. a speaker Llefariad, n. an uttering, a speaking Llefaru, v. to utter, to speak Llefawg, a. shouting, squalling Llefeliad, n. a devising Llefelu, v. to devise, to invent Llefelyn, n. stye on the eye Lleferydd, n. utterance, voice Llefiad, n. enunciation Llefiadawl, a. enunciate Llefn, a. even, sleek, smooth Llefnyn, n. a blade, a slab Llefr, a. coward, timid, faint Llefrin, a. of a spreading nature Llefrith, n. sweet milk Llefrithen, n. stye on the eye Lleg, n. that whips round Llegach, n. a sluggish one Llegest, n. a gorbelly; a lobster Llegu, v. to flag, or to lag Llegus, a. apt to flag; sluggish Llegynt, n. oppression Llegyrn, n. a dwarf Lleiad, n. diminution Lleiaf, n. the least: a. least, smallest Lleian, n. a grey one; a nun Lleianaeth, n. life of a nun Lleiandy, n. a nunnery Lleianu, v. to take the veil Lleianyn, n. a wren Lleiau, v. to diminish, to lessen Lleibiad, n. a lapping Lleibio, v. to lap, or to lick Lleibiol, a lapping, lambent Lleibiwr, n. a lapper Lleidfa, n. a clayey place Lleidiogi, v. to turn clayey Lleidiogrwydd, n. muddiness Lleidio, v. to turn to clay Lleidiog, a. lutulent, muddy Lleidr, n. a thief, a stealer Lleiddawd, n. sluggish state Lleiddiad, n. a slayer Lleifiad, n. a reaping Lleifiaw, v. to cut; to reap Lleigiaw, v. to flag; to skulk Lleilai, a. being less and less Lleill, n. others; the rest Lleinell, n. a narrow slip Lleiniad, n. a blading Lleinio, v. to blade; to shred Lleion, n. a dark blue marble Lleipio, v. to lap, to lick Lleipr, a. flaccid, flabby Lleipraw, v. to droop, to flag Lleipriad, n. a turning flabby Lleiprog, n. a lamprey Lleirwyd, n. fine for adultery Lleisiad, n. a sounding; a touation; a counter tide Lleisio, v. to sound, to utter Lleisiol, a. belonging to the voice Lleisiwr, n. a bawler Lleisw, n. lixivium, or dye Lleithad, n. a turning humid Lleithawd, n. a damping Lleithban, n. soft roe of fish Lleithder, n. dampness Lleithdra, n. dampness Lleithiannu, v. to cause dissolution Lleithiant, n. a damp state Lleithiar, a. apt to dissolve Lleithig, n. a bench; a throne Lleithian, n. humid weather Lleithio, v. to moisten Lleithlyd, a. apt to be damp Lleithon, n. soft roe of fish Lleithrid, n. a flash, a gleam Llem, a. sharp, pungent Llemain, v. to hop, or to skip Llemidydd, bouncer; porpoise Llemwst, n. sharp perception Llemysten, n. sparrow-hawk Llen, n. literature, erudition Llen, n. a veil; a curtain Llenawg, a. literate, learned Llenawr, n. a scholar; a clerk Lleniad, n. a veiling over Lleniedydd, n. a veiler Llenlath, n. a curtain-rod Lleinlian, n. sheeting, sheets Llenoriaeth, n. literature Llenu, v. to veil, to envelope Llenwad, n. a filling; a flowing Llenwi, v. to fill; to flow in Llenwr, n. a clergyman Lleng, n. a legion; a host Llengawl, a. legionary Llengcyn, n. a stripling Llengel, n. a veil, a covering Llengig, n. the diaphragma Llengudd, n. a veil covering Lleoldeb, n. locality, localness Llepiad, n. a lapping, a licking Llepian, v. to keep lapping Llepio, v. to lap, to lick up Llepiol, a. lapping, licking Ller, n. nicety; satiety; cockle Llerc, n. a frisk; loitering Llercian, v. to frisk; to loiter Llercyn, n. a loiterer; a lurker Lleren, n. a cockle, or darnel Llerf, a subtile; sharp, acerb Llerpyn, n. a shred, or a rag Llerpyna, v. to shred, to tear Llerpyniad, n. a tearing Llerth, n. subtilty; a frenzy Llerthiad, n. a turning frantic Llerthu, v. to turn frantic Lleru, v. to satiate; to be nice Llerw, n. that is nice or delicate, a. nice, delicate; squeamish Lles, n. benefit, profit, good Llesg, n. feeble, faint: sluggish Llesgaad, n. a debilitating Llesgau, v. to weaken Llesgedd, n. debility Llesgen, n. a sluggish fit Llesgiad, n. debilitating Llesiad, n. a benefitting Llesiannu, v. to make beneficial Llesiant, n. benefit, advantage Llesmar, n. a fainting fit Llesmeiriad, n. a swooning Llesmeirio, v. to swoon Llesol, a. advantageous Llest, n. that heaps together Llestair, n. let, obstruction Llesteiriad, n. an obstructing Lleisteirio, v. to obstruct Llesteiriol, a. obstructing Llesteiriwr, n. an obstructer Llestr, n. a vessel; a matrix Llestriaid, n. a vessel-full; a two and a half bushel measure Llestriad, n. a putting in a vessel Llestrwr, n. one who puts in a vessel Llestru, v. to put in a vessel Llestryn, n. a small vessel Lleswyra, v. to take airing Lletbai, a. oblique; pliant Lletbeiad, n. a turning oblique Lletrog, n. a flat cake Lletteugar, a. hospitable Lletteugarwch, n. hospitality Llettrod, n. a traverse Llettrodawl, a. traversing Llettrodi, v. to reverse over Lletty, n. a lodging; an inn Llettya, v. to lodge, to quarter Llettyad, n. a taking lodging Llettyaeth, n. act of lodging Llettywr, n. a lodger Llettywraig, n. a woman lodger Lletwed, n. a ladle, a large spoon Lleth, a. flabby; drooping Llethawl, a. flattening; overlaying Llethfad, n. a flattening; an overlaying Llethr, n. a slope, a declivity Llethrawd, heap of rubbish Llethrawl, a. declivous Lleithriad, n. a sloping down Llethrid, n. flash, a gleam Llethru, v. to slope down Llethu, v. to flatten; to overlay Llethwr, n. an overlayer Lleu, v. to explain; to lecture; to place, to lay Lleuad, n. the moon Lleuadawl, a. lunar, lunary Lleuadiad, n. a lunation Lleuawg, a. full of lice, lousy Lleudid, n. splendor Lleuen, n. a louse Lleuer, n. light Lleuerad, n. shedding of light Lleuerawl, a. illuminating Lleueru, v. to shine Lleuerydd, n. a luminary Lleufer, n. light; splendor Lleuferu, v. to illumine Lleuferydd, n. an illuminator Llew, n. that devours; a lion Llewa, v. to devour; to swallow, to take food Llewaidd, a. leonine Llewen, n. a point to which any thing verges; a focus Llewenydd, n. a verging point Llewes, n. a she lion, a lioness Llewi, v. to swallow Llewin, a. occident, western Llewyg, n. a swoon, a trance Llewygawl, a. swooning, fainting Llewygiad, n. a fainting away Llewygu, v. to swoon, to faint Llewyn, n. a radiating point; the west; a gleam; the orach Llewynu, v. to verge to a focus Llewynydd, n. occident Llewyrch, n. brightness, reflection of light; complexion Llewyrchiad, n. an illuming Llewyrchiant, n. illumination Llewyrchu, v. to reflect light Llewyrchus, a. lightsome Llewyrn, n. meteor Llewyrnu, v. to produce meteors Lleyg, n. a layman; a yeoman Lleyn, n. a low strip of land Lleynlys, n. the scurvy grass Lli, n. a flux, a flood, a stream Lliad, n. a flooding, a streaming Lliain, n. linen-cloth, linen; a towel; a napkin Lliant, n. a torrent, a stream Llias, n. a parted state Lliasiad, n. privation Lliaws, n. a multitude, a number: a. many, frequent, much Llib, n. a flaccid state Llibin, a. flaccid, limber, soft Llibiniaw, v. to turn flaccid Llibyn, n. a fribble Llid, n. wrath, indignation Llidiad, n. a raising anger Llidiaw, v. to inflame, to enrage Llidiog, a. wrathful; inflamed Llidiogi, v. to become unflamed Llidiogrwydd, n. wrathfulness Llidus, a. wrathful Llieingig, n. a midriff Llieiniad, n. a putting on linen Llieiniawg, a. wearing linen Llieiniwr, n. a linen-draper Llieinrwd, n. lint Llieinwe, n. a piece of linen Llieinwisg, n. a linen garment Llif, n. a flood, a deluge, a saw Llifad, n. fluxion, flowing Llifaid, a. ground or whetted Llifddwfr, n. a torrent Llifedigaeth, n. grinding an edge Llifeiriad, n. an overflowing Llifeiriant, n. an inundation Llifeiriaw, v. to overflow Llifiad, n. a sawing with a saw Llifiant, n. a defluxion, a flow Llifio, v. to saw, to cut with a saw Llifion, n. saw-dust; filings Llifiwr, n. a sawyer Llifo, v. to flow, to stream: v. to grind; to file Llifol, a. flowing, streaming Llifweli, n. an issue Llifwydd, n. boards, planks Llig, n. that shoots or glides Llill, n. an epithet for a goat Llillen, n. a young goat Llimp, n. sleek or glossy Llimprin, n. spoon meat Llin, n. fine thread; a fibre, grain of wood; a line; a flax Llinar, a. of a smooth nature Llinariad, n. an assuaging Llinaru, v. to assuage Llindag, n. a strangle Llindagiad, n. a strangling Llindagu, v. to strangle Llindagwr, n. a strangler Llindro, n. the dodder Llindys, n. caterpillar Llinell, n. a line; a streak Llinelliad, n. making lines Llinellu, v. to draw lines Llinen, n. a splinter; a fibre Llinhad, n. linseed, flax-seed Llinhesg, n. sort of reed grass Llinon, n. grain of ash; a spear Llinos, n. a linnet; a beauty Llinosen, n. a little linnet Llinwydd, n. the liverwort Llinyn, n. a line; a string Llinynawg, a. having strings Llinynu, v. to line, to string Llion, n. an aggregate of floods Lliosbarth, a. of many parts Lliosdroed, a. many-footed Lliosgib, a. multicapsular Lliosliw, a. having many colours Llioslun, a. multiform Lliosog, a. multitudinous Lliosogi, v. to multiply Lliosogrwydd, n. multitude Lliosogwr, n. multiplier Llipa, a. flaccid, flagging Llipaad, n. a turning flaccid Llipan, n. a limp or a glib one Llipanu, v. to make glib Llipau, v. to grow flabby Llipryn, n. that flags; a fribble Lliprynrwydd, n. flabbiness Lliprynu, v. to render flaccid Llith, n. a lure; a bait; a mash; a lesson Llithiad, n. an alluring; a lecturing Llithiant, n. alectation Llithio, v. to draw to, to attract, to entice, to lecture, to bait Llithiogi, v. to render alluring Llithiol, a. allective, alluring Llithiwr, n. an allurer Llithr, n. a glide; a slip Llithred, n. a glide or a slip Llithriad, n. a slipping Llithriant, n. lubricity Llithrig, a. sliding; slippery Llithrigaw, v. to make slippery Llithrigder, n. slipperiness Llithrigiad, n. lubrification Llithrigrwydd, n. slipperiness Llithro, v. to glide, to slip Llithrol, a. gliding; slipping Llithwr, n. a lecturer Lliw, n. a colour; a figure Lliwadwy, a. colourable Lliwdy, n. a dyeing-house Lliwgar, a. of good colour Lliwiad, n. a colouring Lliwied, v. to stain; to reproach Lliwio, v. to colour; to dye Lliwiog, a. having a colour Lliwiwr, n. a colourist, a dyer Lliwlys, n. dying plant, woad Lliwusrwydd, n. goodness of colour Lliwyddiaeth, n. art of dyeing Llo, n. a mass; a calf Llob, n. a dolt, a blockhead Lloc, n. a dam; a fold Llociad, n. a penting up Llocio, v. to pent; to fold Llocust, n. a locust Lloches, n. a refuge Llochi, v. to harbour; to fondle Llochiad, n. an encourager Llochwyd, n. a secret covert Llod, n. a forcible utterance Llodedd, n. a state of craving Llodes, n. a girl, or a wench Llodi, v. to reach out; to crave Llodig, a. craving; brimming Llodigaw, v. to be brimming Llodigiad, n. a brimming Llodrawg, a. having breeches Llodri, v. to put on breeches Llodrwr, n. a breeches-maker Llodryn, n. a pair of breeches Llodw, a. spirting, squirting Llodwedd, n. a mite, a farthing Llodwy, n. a spirt, a squirt Llodi, v. to solace, to soothe Lloddiad, n. a solacing Lloegr, n. England Lloegrwys, n. the ancient inhabitants of England Lloer, n. the moon Lloeran, n. a lunette Lloerawl, a. lunar, lunary Lloercen, n. a moon calf; a dolt Lloeren, n. a lunette; a spot Lloerenu, v. to form spots Lloergan, n. the moonshine Lloergant, n. orb of the moon Lloeriad, n. a lunation Lloerig, a. lunatic, crazy Lloerigaw, v. to become lunatic Lloerigen, n. a female lunatic Lloerigyn, n. a male lunatic Lloerni, n. moon's influence Lloes, n. a sigh; a pang Lloesedd, n. languishment Lloesi, v. to eject; to sigh Lloesiad, n. ejection; a groaning Llof, n. an excrescence Llofeliad, n. a coaxing Llofelu, v. to coax, to stroke Llofen, n. the burbot, a fish Llofenan, n. the burbot Llofi, v. to handle; to bestow Llofion, n. pickings, cullings Llofiad, n. a handling, a giving Lloflen, n. the palm, or grasp Lloflenan, n. the weasel Llofres, n. branching of the ribs Llofrudd, n. a murderer Llofruddiad, n. a murdering Llofruddiaeth, n. murder Llofruddio, v. to murder Llofruddiog, a. murderous Llofyn, n. a whisp; a braid Llofynawg, a. having a whisp Lloffa, v. to lease, to glean Lloffiad, n. a gleaning Lloffwr, n. a gleaner Lloffyn, n. bundle of gleanings Llog, n. an augment; a compact; benefit; interest; hire Llogail, n. a bracer, a fence; a crib, a pen Llogawd, n. a space parted off: a cupboard; a chancel Llogawl, a. relating to interest or hire Llogeilwydd, n. the eaves beam Llogell, n. a partition: a closet, a drawer; a pocket Llogelliad, n. a pocket-full Llogellu, v. to put up; to pocket Llogi, v. to covenant, to hire Llogaid, n. a hiring, a lending Llowgr, n. a covenanter, a hirer, a borrower Llogwrn, n. a pigmy, a dwarf Llogwydd, n. a chancel Llom, a. bare, naked, exposed Llomen, n. a naked female Llomi, v. to make bare Llon, a. cheerful, glad, pleased Llonaid, n. fulness, or fill Llonaidd, a. apt to be cheerful Llonc, n. a gulp, a swallow Llonder, n. cheerfulness, joy Lloneiddio, v. to render cheerful Lloni, v. to solace, to gladden Lloniad, n. a gladdening Lloniant, n. inward pleasure Llonychiad, n. a giving pleasure Llonychu, v. to make cheerful Llonydd, a. at ease, at rest, quiet Llonyddiad, n. a quieting Llonyddol, a. tending to quiet Llonyddu, v. to quiet Llonyddwch, n. quietness Llonyddwr, n. a tranquilizer Llong, n. a ship Llongborth, n. harbour for ships Llongdor, n. a shipwreck Llongdoriad, n. shipwrecking Llongddrylliad, n. shipwrecking Llongddryllio, v. to shipwreck Llongi, v. to go on board a ship Llongiad, n. a going on board Llongiadaeth, n. navigation Llongiadu, v. to navigate Llonglwyth, n. a ship-load Llongsaer, n. a shipwright Llongsaerniaeth, n. the act of ship-building Llongwr, n. a sailor Llongwriaeth, n. seamanship Llongwrio, v. to work a ship Llop, n. a buskin; a boot Llopan, n. sort of shoe Llopanu, v. to wear buskins Llopanwr, n. a buskin maker Llor, n. that bulges out; a bulb Lloriad, n. a floor-ful Llorf, n. a pillar Llorfdant, n. base string of a harp Lloriad, n. a laying a floor Llorio, v. to lay a floor Lloriog, a. floored; groveling Llorion, n. sweepings; bottoms Llorlen, n. a floor-cloth Llorp, n. a side-beam; a shank Llorpog, a. having a side-beam Llorwydd, n. laurelwood Llosg, n. a burn; heat, inflammation Llosgaberth, n. burnt sacrifice Llosgach, n. unnatural lust Llosgadwy, a. conbustible Llosgawl, a. burning, ignitive Llosged, n. that is burnt Llosgedig, a. scorched Llosgedd, n. state of burning Llosgen, n. a blister Llosgfaen, n. brimstone Llosgfal, n. a burning mountain Llosgi, v. to burn; to be burning Llosgiad, n. a burning Llosgrach, n. scabs of itch Llosgwrn, n. a tail Llosgwynt, n. a singeing blast Llosgyrnog, a. having a tail Llost, n. a dart; a sting; a tail Llosten, n. a tail; genitals Llostlydan, n. spattle-tail, beaver Llostodyn, n. a metre so called Llu, n. a throng; a host Lluad, n. a thronging Lluadu, v. to throng, to flock Lluan, n. that glitters with light Lluanu, v. to reflect light Lluarth, n. an encampment Lluarthu, v. to form a camp Lluch, n. a throw; a glance a darting, flashing Lluched, n. a gleam; lightning Lluchedawl, a. flashing Llucheden, n. a flash; a fever Lluchedenawl, a. gleaming Lluchedeniad, n. a gleaming Lluchedenu, v. to gleam Lluchediad, n. a coruscation Lluchedyn, n. a gleam, a flash Lluchfa, n. a drift, a throw Lluchfryd, a. of ardent passion Lluchfrys, a. of ardent haste Lluchiad, n. a throwing, a drifting Lluchiaw, v. to throw, to fling, to pelt, to drift Lluchiawl, a. flinging Lluchlam, n. a darting stride Lluchochr, n. the coral Lluchwayw, n. a javelin, a dart Lluchynt, n. a violent onset Llud, n. pure ore, wealth, a. close, compact, essential Lludlyd, a. full of ashes Lludw, n. ashes Lludwlyd, a. of the nature of ashes Lludwlys, n. the artichoke Lludwog, a. full of ashes Lludd, n. obstacle, let Lludded, n. obstruction; burden fatigue Lluddediad, n. defatigation Lluddedig, a. fatigued Lluddedigaeth, n. fatigue Lluddedu, v. to fatigue; to be weary Lluddiad, n. an obstructing Lluddianu, v. to form an obstacle Lluddiant, n. a prevention Liuddio, v. to obstruct, to let Lluddiwr, n. a hinderer Lluedd, n. warfare, hostility Lluedda, v. to carry on war Llueddawg, a. having a host Llueddiad, n. a waging war Llueddwr, n. one who assembles, an army Lluest, n. encampment Lluestai, n. a campaigner Lluestfa, n. an encampment Lluestiad, n. an encamping Lluestu, v. to encamp Lluestwr, n. one who encamps Lluestyn, n. small encampment Llug, n. a gleam; a blotch: a. tending to appear: ad.

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with heads together; loggerheads Penbleth, n. distraction of head Penboeth, a. hotheaded Penbwl, a. blunt-headed: stupid: n. blockhead; tadpole Penbyledd, n. blockishness Penbyliad, n. a tadpole Poncais, n. receiver general Penceirddiad, n. chief singer Penceisiad, n. chief collector Pencenedl, n. chief of a family Pencerdd, n. master of song Penci, n. the dog-fish Penciwdod, n. generalissimo Penclwm, n. knot at the end Pencynghor, n. chief counsellor Pencynydd, n. cheif huntsman Penchiwban, a. light-headed Penchiwbandod, n. capriciousness Penchiwbanu, v. to become hair-brained Pendant, a. express, arbitrary Pendefig, n. nobleman Pendefiges, n. a lady of quality Pendefigiaeth, n. state of chieftain Penderfyniad, n. a conclusion Penderfynu, v. to determine Pendew, a. thick-headed; stupid Pendist, n. piazza, colonnade Pendodaeth, n. superiority Pendodi, v. to render peculiar Pendodol, a. discriminative Pendraffolach, adv.

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Ystanc ceffyl, a horse- block Ystanciad, n. a bracketing Ystancio, to stanch; to bracket Ystarn, n. a packsaddle, a saddle Ystarnwr, n. a saddler Ystefaig, n. the palate Ysteinio, v. to cause a spread Ystel, n. what stretches out Ystelc, n. a lurk; a loiter Ystelciad, n. lurking; a loitering Ystelcian, v. to lurk; to loiter Ystellff, n. a blockhead Ystellffu, v. to render rigid Ysteliad, n. a straining out Ystem, n. a base, a stem Yster, n. what is ardent Ysteraig, a. ardent Ysterciad, n. a jerking out Ystercian, v. to be jerking Ystercio, v. to jerk out Ysterlewyn, n. radiation Ystern, n. what is ardent: a. of ardent tendency Ysteru, v. to render ardent Ystid, n. what forms a wreath Ystido, v. to form a wreath Ystig, a. strenuous, perserving Ystigo, v. to act strenuously Ystle, n. a fight, a retreat Ystlen, n. a sex, a kind Ystlenol, a. sexual, kindred Ystlom, n. excrement, ordure Ystlomi, v. to void ordure Ystlum, n. a bat, a bird Ystlwn, n. connection, a kind Ystlwyd, a. of a hoary hue Ystlwyn, n. a luxuriant grove Yslyned, n. society; kindred Ystlyniad, n. a forming society Ystlyniol, a. being associated Ystlynu, v. to associate Ystlys, n. a side, a flank Ystlysgam, a. being lop-sided Ystlysol, a. lateral, sided Ystlysu, v. to go to one side Ystod, n. a course; a layer; a swathe Ystodi, v. to dispose a course range, layer, or swathe Ystodiad, n. a laying of a course Ystofen, n. a warping tray Ystofi, v. to range; to warp Ystofiad, n. ranging, a warping Ystol, n. a stool Ystola, n. scarf, a stole Ystolciad, n. a butting Ystolcian, v. to keep butting Ystor, n. a bulk; a store, a stock; a quantity Ystoraeth, n. store, plenty Ystordy, n. a storehouse, a warehouse Ystordyn, n. trigger, in bowling, a mark to jump from Ystori, v. to cover with resin Ystorio, v. to store up Ystorm, n. a tempest, a storm Ystormus, a. tempestuous Ystrad, n. a flat, a vale, a dale Ystraff, n. what strews about Ystraffu, v. to strew, to waste Ystraig, n. a buckle, a clasp Ystraigl, n. a turn, a detour Ystraill, n. what is trailed; a mat Ystrain, n. tribe, a crew, a breed Ystram, n. a frame Ystranc, n. a trick, a while Ystranciad, n. a playing of tricks Ystrancio, v. to play tricks Ystrancus, a. apt to play tricks Ystrawu, to educate; to mature Ystre, n. a course, a range Ystred, n. a village, a hamlet Ystref, n. what forms a dwelling Ystreigio, v. to turn, to roll Ystreillach, n. trundling Ystreillio, v. to trundle Ystrem, n. what is made to appear Ystremio, v. to make to seem Ystremp, n. a dash, a stroke; a trick; a charm Ystrempiad, n. a dashing; a bewitching Ystrempio, v. to dash; to bewitch Ystres, n. a wreath, a chain Ystresu, v. to wreath, to chain Ystrew, n. a sneeze; a snort Ystrewi, to sternutate, to sneeze Ystrewiad, n. a sneezing Ystrewlwch, n. snuff Ystrewlys, n. sneeze-wort Ystrodur, n. the frame work of a saddle, a packsaddle Ystrodwm, n. a round-about Ystrwy, n. what passes through Ystrwyad, n. a forming a passage Ystrwyo, v. to pass through Ystrwytho, v. to saturate Ystrych, n. what forms a scope Ystrychu, v. to form a scope Ystryd, n. a way, a street Ystrym, n. a main stream or current; a channel Ystryw, n. a subtlety, a finesse, a stratagem, a trick Ystrywgar, a. crafty, wily Ystrywiad, n. a using of craft Ystrywio, v. to use craft Ystrywiol, a. plotting, devising Ystum, n. a bend, a curve; shape fashion, gait Ystumgar, shapely, well-formed Ystumiad, n. a shaping Ystumio, v. to form, to fashion, to bend, to turn Ystumiol, a. pliable, sinuous Ystun, n. what is irritating Ystunad, n. an irritating Ystuno, v. to irritate; to instigate Ystwc, n. a bucket: a shock Ystwff, n. a lift Ystwffwl, n. a stock, a holdfast, a staple, the knocker of a door Ystwng, n. a putting down Ystwmp, n. a stump Ystwr, n. a stir, a noise Ystwrio, v. to bustle, to stir Ystwy, n. a stop, a check Ystwyad, n. a checking Ystwyll, n. Epiphany Ystwyo, v. to check, to restrain Ystwyr, n. what stretches out Ystwyrain, v. to be stretching Ystwyriad, n. a stretching Ystwyth, a. flexible, pliant Ystwythder, n. flexibility Ystwythiad, n. a making pliant Ystwytho, v. to make flexible Ystyciad, n. a bucketful Ystycyll, n. a signal Ystyffernach, n. utensils Ystyffyllu, v. to stock, to log Ystyr, n. sense, meaning Ystyrgar, a. considerate, contemplative, meditative Ystyriaeth, n. consideration Ystyriaethu, v. to use consideration or reflection Ystyried, v. to consider, to reflect Ystyrio, v. to consider, to regard Ystyriol, a. considerate Ystyrioldeb, n. considerateness Ystyrmant, n. a jews-harp Ystyw, n. a settlement Ystywaws, n. a pair of stays Ystywanu, v. to belabour Ystywell, a. steady, manageable Ystywellu, v. to make steady Ysu, v. to hanker, to itch, to eat, to corrode; to consume Yswadan, n. a stroke, a flap Yswail, n. what ejects Ysweilydd, n. one who casts out, a brawler Yswain, n. an esquire, page; armour bearer Yswatiad, n. a squatting Yswatio, v. to squat Yswbwb, n. a hubbub Yswbwbio, v. to rumble Ysweiliad, n. a brawling Ysweilyd, n. a brawler Ysweiniad, n. esquire, page Yswid, n. what turns quickly Yswidw, n. the titmouse Yswil, a. bashful, timid Yswilder, n. bashfulness Yswiliad, n. an abashing Yswilio, v. to be abashed Yswitiad, n. a chipping Yswitian, v. to chirp, to make a small noise Yswitio, v. to chirp, to twitter Yswr, n. a consumer Yswydden, n. a privet tree Yswymbren, n. a quiver Yswyr, n. what dawns; the east Yswyth, n. what pervades Yswythbysg, n. the torpedo Yswytho, v. to pervade Ysyn, n. a fire brand Ysywaeth, adv.

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You blockhead!

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'Give that fair-haired blockhead einen recenten Schilling' (slang for a 'good hiding'); 'he is the ringleader of them all,' said the Empress.

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In vain did the sour old man hurl such epithets as 'fool,' 'blockhead,' 'dolt,' at his musical valet in return for the latter's attempts to minister to his personal comforts.

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Those who allow it to remain there are blockheads.

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[12] And now, after toils and hardships untold, only five months' provisions were left for the ships sailing from Kamchatka; and the blockhead underlings were compelling a waste of those provisions by sailing in the wrong direction.

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The blockheads have stopped spreading their maps in the captain's cabin.

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Waxel had all a sailor's contempt for the bookful blockheads, who wrench fact to fit theory; and deadly enmity arose {25} between him and Steller, the scientist.

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Because I have seen him several times in the Papal chapels with a certain air of an ass and certain grimaces of a blockhead that cannot happen to a man of talent.

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Immediately on closing the third volume I secured a few pages in _Fraser's Magazine_ for _Wild Wales_, for though you do not stand in need of my aid, yet my notice will not do you a mischief, and some of the reviewers of _Lavengro_ were, I recollect, shocking blockheads, misinterpreting the letter and misconceiving the spirit of that work.

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This, then, is what the mixture of things causes, and hence it is that no one is pleased with his own state, except some senseless blockhead, who is so all the more the deeper is the degree of obscure folly in which he is sunk; then he has little or no apprehension of pain; he enjoys the actual present without fearing the future; he enjoys that which is and that in which he finds himself, and has neither care nor sorrow for what may be; and, in short, has no sense of that opposition which is symbolized by the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

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What manner of man could possibly be worthy of her, much less the stupid blockhead who was thrusting himself upon her as Long was?

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The feeling that made you turn me down and take him when you was a girl and I was a big blockhead of a boy was born of God in heaven.

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Here it will be necessary to explain that _caudex_, _codex_, in Latin, meant a block of wood, and had its humorous by-senses among the Roman dramatists, as the word block has among ourselves, such as blockhead.

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And Sir Walter Scott was named the 'The Great Blockhead' at school.

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"In common cases," said Uncle Tim, "those who utter nonsense are considered blockheads."

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ON THE OTHER TRAIN A CLOCK'S STORY ANONYMOUS "There, Simmons, you blockhead!

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You blockhead!

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Take your hands from your pockets, Roger; and from your head, you blockhead you!

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In Hawthorne's romance, after Miles Coverdale had passed his spring and summer among the Utopians of Blithedale, he felt that the time had come when he must for sheer sanity's sake go and hold a little talk with the Conservatives, the merchants, the politicians, 'and all those respectable old blockheads, who still in this intangibility and mistiness of affairs kept a death-grip on one or two ideas which had not come into vogue since yesterday morning.'

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The Moping Owl, indeed!--the Boding Owl, forsooth!--the Melancholy Owl, you blockhead!--why, they are the most cheerful--joy-portending--and exulting of God's creatures!

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Had the Doctor not been dead, we should have given him a severe rowing and blowing-up for this vulgar folly; but as he is dead, we have only to hope that the readers of the Oracle who intend to travel will not degrade themselves, and disgust "authors of eminence," by thrusting their ugly or comely faces--both are equally odious--into the privacy of gentlemen who have done nothing to exclude themselves from the protection of the laws of civilised society--or subject their fire-sides to be infested by one-half of the curious men of the country, two-thirds of the clever, and all the blockheads.

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Yes, there is pathos in the picture, especially while, on turning round your head, you behold a big blockhead of a vulgar bagman, with his coat-tails over his arms, warming his loathsome hideousness at a fire that would roast an ox.

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MILITARY BLOCKHEADS 113 XVI.

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CHAPTER XV MILITARY BLOCKHEADS Gard's attentions to Elsa continued intermittently, and as if detached, on their unadvancing course.

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"And now I was getting out of patience with this blockhead.

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They put the blockheads in the army because there is no other place for them.

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I think that must be the reason why there are more synonyms for blockhead in the German language than in any other--we have the largest army.

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He started the game, having locked out the blockhead of a waiter and dropped the key into his own pocket.

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After having walked half the day they reached a town that was called "Trap for Blockheads."

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For I must tell you that the young Emperor who reigned over the town of "Trap for Blockheads," having won a splendid victory over his enemies, ordered great public rejoicings.

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He'd " no doubt but his friends in Parnassus must know How his fine declamation was laugh'd at below; And how Keate, like a blockhead ungifted with brains, Had neglected to grant him a prize for his pains.

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They irritate one another so uselessly by calling one another fools, blockheads, liars, and so forth for no purpose.

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But when you see its present state, when the one side says black and the other white, when the opposite political characters are treated by their respective antagonists as rogues, fools, blockheads, wretches, and all the other names in which the English political dictionary is so _very rich_, one stands like the ass, between two bundles of hay, considerably embarrassed which ought to be chosen.... [Pageheading: THE PRINCESS'S ESTABLISHMENT] _The King of the Belgians to the Princess Victoria._ LAEKEN, _11th April 1837._ ... As I believe the visit at Windsor is fixed for the 15th, I hope this letter will arrive in time.

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"Am I responsible if the blockhead has got drunk some place?"

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"Your face, blockhead, when you come out of the room."

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_Difficilia quæ pulchra._ _Hard to be dun, a dute iz sur dhe gratest bute._ _A Table of the self-same Leters, Spelling words ov a far different sound._ As with, with, bath, bathe, sith, sithe, both, both, loath, loath, oath, oathes, smith, smithy, breath, of, off, then, yet, liveth or liveth, joth or joth, mouth, mouth, path or path, wrath, wreath, faith or faith, thy, thigh, this, thistle, thou, thousand, thank, they, them, theame, thus, thunder, thine, thin, goal or goal, as afore, motion, crimson, action, Acteon, singed, hanged, changed, shepherd, Shaphat, dishonour, asham'd, bishop, mishap, character, charity, duckherd, blockhead, Dutchess, gather, success, suggest, or suggest, or suggest, or suggest, haov, rij, [w]heg and who, come, on, you know what I mean, as well as [h]orses.

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"They don't know how to make blockheads tell what they can tell.

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The blockhead, I believe, is so attach'd, I shou'dn't wonder if he flew off at a tangent, and married the girl that has bewitch'd him.

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_Sir Simon._ But the world will, you blockhead: and, for your sake, for the sake of our posterity, I would cross the cart breed, as much as possible, by blood.

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"In the courts of princes literary knowledge is held a crime; and great is the grief of men of letters when they find themselves universally despised, and see the most important matters managed, not to say mismanaged, by blockheads, who cannot tell the number of their fingers and toes."

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The Ship of Fools Fully Fraught and Richly Laden with Asses, Fools, Jack-daws, Ninnihammers, Coxcombs, Slenderwits, Shallowbrains, Paper-Skuls, Simpletons, Nickumpoops, Wiseakers, Dunces, and Blockheads, Declaring their several Natures, Manners and Constitutions; the occasion why this Ship was built, with the places of their intended Voyage, and a list of the Officers that bear Command therein.

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"There is nothing wonderful in that," said I; "we are at the commencement of a philological age, every one studies languages; that is, every one who is fit for nothing else; philology being the last resource of dulness and ennui, I have got a little in advance of the throng, by mastering the Armenian alphabet; but I foresee the time when every unmarriageable miss, and desperate blockhead, will likewise have acquired the letters of Mesroub, and will know the term for bread, in Armenian, and perhaps that for wine."

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When, in the close of my lecture on landscape last year at Oxford, I spoke of stationary clouds as distinguished from passing ones, some blockheads wrote to the papers to say that clouds never were stationary.

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_Pet._ No, nor the bull-baiting till-- _Sol._ Hold your tongue, blockhead!

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_Pet._ Blockhead!

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_Count._ Then he's a blockhead; and you an idler.

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"Confound you, you blockhead!" roared the captain, in a rage,--"'twould take the patience of the pope and the cardinals, and the cardinal virtues into the bargain, to keep one's temper with you.

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Yours is to flatter women, even behind their backs; whilst I am blockhead enough to speak the truth about them, even to their faces.

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But as sickness frets one's temper, I sometimes forgot myself, and called him "bestia, blockhead;" and once when he was at a loss which way to go, at a wild woody part of the country, I fell into a passion, and called to him "Mi maraviglio che un uomo si bravo può esser si stupido.

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Mr. Taylor, who was entering the hall just as this allusion was made to him, replied that the would rather have a sleek head than a blockhead.

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LE SAGE, the author of Gil Blas, said, to console himself for his deafness, with his usual humor, "When I go into a company where I find a great number of blockheads and babblers, I replace my trumpet in my pocket, and cry, 'Now, gentlemen, _I defy_ you all.'"

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When he was suffering from an attack of gout, he thus rebuked his shoemaker: "O, you're a precious blockhead to do directly the reverse of what I desired you.

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why cajole Blockheads who vent their _rigmarole_?

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"Blockhead," I ground out between my teeth, a feeling taking possession of me, which is designated "indignation" in the first person but jealousy in the second and third.

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COLERIDGE however thought that to parody stupidity by way of ridiculing it, only proves the parodist more stupid than the original blockhead.

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'On arriving at Naseby, I had spade and mattock taken to a hill near half a mile across from the "Blockhead Obelisk," and pitted with several hollows, overgrown with rank Vegetation, which Tradition had always pointed to as the Graves of the Slain.

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It might as well stand at Charing Cross; the blockhead that it is!

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McCook, whose corps lies near Winchester, called while we were at Negley's; he looks, if possible, more like a blockhead than ever, and it is astonishing to me that he should be permitted to retain command of a corps for a single hour.

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"Certainly," says Tom, "this _cacoethes ludendi_ has made fools of several: this infatuated youth though not possessed of a single requisite for the stage, no doubt flatters himself he is a second Kean; and, regardless ~15~~of his birth and family, he will continue his strolling life Till the broad shame comes staring in his face, And critics hoot the blockhead as he struts."

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"He is a pugilist," said Tom--"one of those courageous gentlemen who can queer the daylights, tap the claret, prevent telling fibs, and pop the noddle into chancery; and a devilish good hand he is, I can assure you, among those who ----"can combat with ferocious strife, And beat an eye out, or thump out a life; Can bang the ribs in, or bruise out the brains, And die, like noble blockheads, for their pains."

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I learned afterward that he had so long borne the names of "dunce" and "blockhead" in the school he attended in his own village that he supposed himself to be really such, and made up his mind that it was useless for him to try to be anything else: and I think when our teacher first called him up for examination he was inclined to be of the same opinion.

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"I want Queensmead to get a dozen of the village blockheads together for a jury," he said to Colwyn.

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"Why do you tell that blockhead the same thing twenty times over?" asked John Wesley's father.

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Scott was called the great blockhead while in Edinburgh College.

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"Tut, you blockhead," replied the other, "gibbets are the making of us; for, if there were no gibbets, every one would be a highwayman."

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"If I live," wrote Rufus Choate in his diary in September, 1844, "all blockheads which are shaken at certain mental peculiarities shall know and feel a reasoner, a lawyer and a man of business."

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He's but a Blockhead at the best.

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_In the Vaults at _Tunbridge_._ Like Claret-Drinkers Stools, a Blockhead's Brain; Hardly conceives what it brings forth with Pain.

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But actual _money_, much or little, which the surrounding blockheads connected with this matter have first and last cost you, this I do request that you will accurately sum up that I may pay the half of it, as is my clear debt and right.

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