Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

      A glut of those talents which raise men to eminence.
                                                  --Macaulay.

   3. Something that fills up an opening; a clog.

   4.
      (a) A wooden wedge used in splitting blocks. [Prov. Eng.]
      (b) (Mining) A piece of wood used to fill up behind
          cribbing or tubbing. --Raymond.
      (c) (Bricklaying) A bat, or small piece of brick, used to
          fill out a course. --Knight.
      (d) (Arch.) An arched opening to the ashpit of a klin.
      (e) A block used for a fulcrum.

   5. (Zo["o]l.) The broad-nosed eel ({Anguilla latirostris}),
      found in Europe, Asia, the West Indies, etc.