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obstruction (iou) and Chilkat (iou)


obstruction (iou)



obstruction noun. M16.
[Latin obstructio(n-), formed as OBSTRUCT: see -ION.]
The action or an act of obstructing something or someone; the condition of being obstructed; Medicine blockage of a bodily passage, esp. the gut; Law the action of impeding the movement of traffic on a highway. M16.
cold obstruction poet. death, rigor mortis.
Shakespeare Twelfth Night This does make some obstruction in the blood, this cross-gartering. A. E. Stevenson In every field Democratic proposals..are met by Republican indifference, obstruction and opposition. Independent All they can be arrested for is causing an obstruction.
A thing impeding or preventing passage or progress; an obstacle, a blockage. L16.
W. March She had to get out..and move the obstruction before she could put her car away.
Comb.: obstruction light a light placed on a tall structure as a warning to aircraft.
obstructionary adjective (rare) tending to obstruct something M20.
obstructionism noun the practice of systematic obstruction, as in a legislative assembly L19.
obstructionist noun & adjective (a) noun an advocate or systematic practitioner of obstruction, esp. one who delays the proceedings of a legislative assembly; (b) adjective of or pertaining to obstructionists or obstructionism: M19.

Chilkat (iou)



Chilkat noun & adjective. Also Chilcat. M19.
[Tlingit jilaat.]
A. noun. Pl. -s, same. A member of a subdivision of the Tlingit in Alaska. M19.
b. adjective. Of or pertaining to this people. M19.