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<p><b>3.</b> <def>To fasten in or out, or to make secure by means of, or as with, locks; to confine, or to shut in or out -- often with <ptcl>up</ptcl>; <as>as, to <ex>lock</ex> one's self in a room; to <ex>lock</ex> up the prisoners; to <ex>lock</ex> up one's silver; to <ex>lock</ex> intruders out of the house; to <ex>lock</ex> money into a vault; to <ex>lock</ex> a child in one's arms; to <ex>lock</ex> a secret in one's breast.</as></def>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>To link together; to clasp closely; <as>as, to <ex>lock</ex> arms</as>.</def> " <i>Lock</i> hand in hand."

<i>Shak.</i>

<p><b>5.</b> <fld>(Canals)</fld> <def>To furnish with locks; also, to raise or lower (a boat) in a lock.</def>

<p><b>6.</b> <fld>(Fencing)</fld> <def>To seize, as the sword arm of an antagonist, by turning the left arm around it, to disarm him.</def>

<h1>Lock</h1> <Xpage=864>

<hw>Lock</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <def>To become fast, as by means of a lock or by interlacing; <as>as, the door <ex>locks</ex> close</as>.</def>

<blockquote>When it <b>locked</b> none might through it pass. <i>Spenser.</i></blockquote>

<cs><col>To lock into</col>, <cd>to fit or slide into; <as>as, they <ex>lock into<ex> each other</as>.</cd></cs>

<i>Boyle.</i>

<h1>Lockage</h1> <Xpage=864>

<hw>Lock"age</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>Materials for locks in a canal, or the works forming a lock or locks.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Toll paid for passing the locks of a canal.</def>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>Amount of elevation and descent made by the locks of a canal.</def>

<blockquote>The entire <b>lock</b> will be about fifty feet. <i>De Witt Clinton.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Lock-down</h1> <Xpage=864>

<hw>Lock"-down`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>A contrivance to fasten logs together in rafting; -- used by lumbermen.</def> <mark>[U.S.]</mark>

<h1>Locked-jaw</h1> <Xpage=864>

<hw>Locked"-jaw`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>See <er>Lockjaw</er>.</def>

<h1>Locken</h1> <Xpage=864>

<hw>Lock"en</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>obs. p. p.</tt> <def>of <er>Lock</er>.</def>

<i>Chaucer.</i>

<h1>Locken</h1> <Xpage=864>

<hw>Lock"en</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <fld>(Bot.)</fld> <def>The globeflower (<spn>Trollius</spn>).</def>

<h1>Locker</h1> <Xpage=864>

<hw>Lock"er</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>One who, or that which, locks.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>A drawer, cupboard, compartment, or chest, esp. one in a ship, that may be closed with a lock.</def>

<cs><col>Chain locker</col> <fld>(Naut.)</fld>, <cd>a compartment in the hold of a vessel, for holding the chain cables.</cd> -- <mcol><col>Davy Jones's locker</col>, &or; <col>Davy's locker</col></mcol>. <cd>See <er>Davy Jones</er>.</cd> -- <col>Shot locker</col>, <cd>a compartment where shot are deposited.</cd></cs>