▪ I. † blok Obs.
[Cf. OHG. biloh, MHG. bloch an enclosure (Mätz.).]
An enclosed space.
| c 1325 E.E. Allit. P. C. 272 Til he blunt in a blok as brod as a halle. |
▪ II. † blok(e, bloc, a. Obs.
[The normal ME. repr. of OE. blác:—OTeut. *blaiko-z, f. the stem of blîkan, blaik to shine. But the OE. blæc, black had also a long-vowel form blāc-, which would also give ME. bloke; and in the few known instances it is difficult to say which is the sense. Cf. blake.]
Pale; also (by confusion of forms) black, dark.
| c 1200 Trin. Coll. Hom. 171 Þe unbileffule men bicumeð in þe fure swo bloke and swo eiseliche and swo ateliche, þat bi hundredfealde [ben] grisluker þan ani niht þeoster. a 1225 Ancr. R. 332 Te soule þet was bloc, & nefde bute dead heou, haueð ikeiht cwic heou, & is iruded feire. c 1430 Pol. Rel. & L. Poems 206 Nowe ligiȝt he ded boþe blok & blo. |