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Stone
STONE, n. [Gr.]
1. A concretion of some species of earth, as lime, silex, clay and the like, usually in combination with some species of air or gas, with sulphur or with a metallic substance; a hard compact body, of any form and size. In popular language, very large masses of concretions are called rocks; and very small concretions are universally called gravel or sand, or grains of sand. Stones are of various degrees of hardness and weight; they are brittle and fusible, but not malleable, ductile, or soluble in water. Stones are of great and extensive use int he construction of buildings of all kinds, for walls, fences, piers, abutments, arches, monuments, sculpture and the like. When we speak of the substance generally, we use stone in the singular; as a house or wall of stone. But when we speak of particular separate masses, we say, a stone, or the stones.
2. A gem; a precious stone.
Inestimable stones, unvalud jewels.
3. Any thing made of stone; a mirror.
4. A calculous concretion in the kidneys or bladder; the disease arising from a calculus.
5. A testicle.
6. The nut of a drupe or stone fruit; or the hard covering inclosing the kernel, and itself inclosed by the pulpy pericarp.
7. In Great Britain, the weight of fourteen pounds. [8, 12, 14, or 16.] [Not used in the United States, except in reference to the riders of horses in races.]
8. A monument erected to preserve the memory of the dead.
Should some relentless eye glance on the stone where our cold relics lie--
9. It is used to express torpidness and insensibility; as a heart of stone.
I have not yet forgot myself to stone.
10. Stone is prefixed to some words to qualify their signification. Thus stone-dead, is perfectly dead, as lifeless as a stone; stone-still, still as a stone, perfectly still; stone-blind, blind as a stone, perfectly blind.
To leave no stone unturned, a proverbial expression which signifies to do every thing that can be done; to use all practicable means to effect an object.
Meteoric stones, stones which fall from the atmosphere, as after the displosion of a meteor.
Philosophers stone, a pretended substance that was formerly supposed to have the property of turning any other substance into gold.
STONE, a. Made of stone, or like stone; as a stone jug.
STONE, v.t.
1. To pelt, beat or kill with stones.
And they stoned Stephen calling on God and saying, Lord Jesus, receive my spirit. Acts 7.
2. To harden.
O perjurd woman, thou dost stone my heart. [Little used.]
3. To free from stones; as, to stone raisins.
4. To wall or face with stones; to line or fortify with stones; as, to stone a well; to stone a cellar.
stone appears in definitions for these words:
Abbreuvoir Absurd Abutment Accumulate Aciniform Actinolite Adamant Adamantine Adept Aerolite Agalmatolite Agate Aggregate Alabaster Altar Amethyst Ammochryse Amphibiolite Amphicome Amphitheater Amulet Anchovy-pear Animal-flower Anthropolite Apophthegm Apophyllite Apparatus Appian Aqueduct Arbalist Arch Arches-court Archil Arcubalist Arenilitic Armed Armenian Aromatite Aroph Arundelian Ashes Astacite Asterite Astrite Astroit Attraction Badiane Balass Ballast Ballistic Barolite Barrow Basalt Basanite Bastion Batrachite Bawn Beard Bed Bedetter Belemnite Betray Bezel Bezoar Bibliolite Bice Bilestone Blackness Bloodstone Boll Bossage Botryolite Bought Boundary Bounding-stone Bowlder Bowlder-wall Breastplate Breccia Bridge Brittle Brocatel Buckler Burrel-shot Butment Button-stone Byssolite Cairn Calcarious Calcedon Calculous Camaieu Camayeu Cameo Cannon-ball Carat Carboncle Carnelian Carve Carving Caseshot Cast Catapelt Catapult Catheter Causey Char-woman Charact Charge Chatoyant Cherry-pit Cheslip Chimney Chimney-piece Chip Choke Chronicle Cinnamon Circle Clean Cloud Cobble Coin Cold Collet Column Commandment Commissure Compact Composition Conductor Conduit Conge Consent Copper Copple-stones Coral Cordon Corner-stone Course Cramp Cranny Crayon Cromlech Crumble Cryolite Cucurbit Curb-stone Cut Cutting Dash Daze Decalogue Dendrite Dendrolite Diadem Diameter Diamond Dibstone Die Dig Dike Dilapidate Diligence Diminutive Disallow Disclose Discus Disgorge Disk Disorderly Dispatch Doggers Doublet Drag Drops Drupe Duck Edelite Emerald Emery Employ Encrinite Enforce Engrave Engraver Engraving Enterprise Entomolite Environing Ephod Epistyle Eurite Eyestone Factitious Fairystone Falling-stone Feel Feign Fence Ferrilite Fetichism Figurate Filter Filtration Find Firmness Fissile Fit Flaccidness Flagged Flagging Flagstone Fling Flint Flinty Foil Font Form Fother Fougade Foundation Freestone Friability Garland Gather Gem Generalize Ginging Girdle Give Globule Glyptic Glyptographic Glyptograpny Goats-stones Gorgon Gouge Grain Granit Granular Grapestone Grave Grave-stone Gravel Graver Graving Grind Grindstone Grit Grittiness Gross Gunstone Gypsey Hair-breadth Headstone Heap Hearth Heave Heavy Herborized Hew Hewer High-operation Hippolith Hone Hornslate Hornstone House Hurdle Hurl Hydrolite Ichthyolite Idol If Ignescent Image Impose Imposing-stone Impost Inanimate Incrustation Indicolite Infernal Infiltration Inkhorn Inkstand Inlapidate Inoculate Inscribe Intaglio Interstice Iolite Jade Jamb Jerk Jewel Karpholite Keffekil Kern Key Keystone Killas Kiln Konilite Koupholite Labor Landmark Lapicide Lapidarious Lapidary Lapidate Lapideous Lapidescence Lapidescent Lapidific Lapidification Lapidify Lapidist Lapis Law Lay League Ledge Leelite Ligure Lime Lime-burner Limekiln Limestone Lithanthrax Lithiate Lithic Lithocarp Lithocolla Lithodendron Lithogenesy Lithoglyphite Lithography Lithologic Lithologist Lithology Lithomancy Lithomarga Lithontriptic Lithontriptor Lithophosphor Lithophyl Lithophyte Lithotome Lithotomist Lithotomy Lithotritor Lithotrity Lithoxyle Lively Liverstone Loadstar Lode-stone Lumachel Lydian Macigno Mandlestone Mangonel Mantle-tree Marble Margode Mason Matter Mellite Mellitic Mesoleucys Mesomelas Meteor Meteoric Meterolite Mica Milestone Millstone Mine Mirror-stone Missile Molder Mole Montoir Monument Mortar Mosaic Mosk Mound Mount Muller Muriacite Mushroom-stone Myrrhine Nature Necklace Nemolite Nephritic Nephritical Nephrotomy Newel Obey Observable Oculist Offense Olivin On Oolite Opal Ophite Ostracite Ouch Oven Palmated Parchment Parget Parsley Partition Paste Pave Paved Pavement Paver Paving Pearl-stone Pebblestone Pebbly Pederero Pelt Pendant Penetrable Percolate Percolation Permeate Perpender Pervious Petrean Petrescence Petrescent Petrifaction Petrifactive Petrific Petrified Petrify Petrifying Petrol Petrosilex Petrous Philosopher Phonolite Phospholite Phrygian Phyllite Physalite Phytolite Pier Pikrolite Pile Pimelite Pisolite Plainly Platform Plum Ply Polyautography Polygenous Polymnite Pore Porpite Precious Prevail Probe Proud Purl Push Putting-stone Puzzolan Pyrolithic Pyroxene Quadrel Quarry Quarrying Quarryman Quern Quicklime Quoin Quoit Rack Ragg Ragstone Raise Rammer Ratchil Refuse Result Retinite Rigid Road Rock-salt Roll Roller Rosicrucian Rotten-stone Rough Rub Rubble-stone Ruby Rude Ruderation Run Runner Rustic Sack Saltpeter Sand Sandstone Sarcolite Sarcophagus Sarde Sardonyx Sarplar Sassafras Saw Saxifrage Saxifragous Scapolite Scratch Scribe Scrip Sculptor Sculpture Sea-carp Seal Seam Semi-lapidified Semi-protolite Sepulchral Serpent Serprntine Set Setting Shingle Shivery Shoad Should Shower Silcia Silex Sill Sink Slab Slate Slay Sled Sleekstone Slime Sling Smite Soft Sound Sounding Spar Sprig-crystal Stair Stallion Stan Stane Stannel Stanyel Star-apple Staurolite Staurotide Stean Steatite Steen Stellite Step-stone Stepping-stone Stock Stone Stone-blind Stone-bow Stone-crop Stone-dead Stone-horse Stone-house Stone-pit Stone-squarer Stone-still Stone-wall Stone-work Stonecutter Stonecutting Stoned Stoner Stones-cast Stones-throw Stoniness Stony Strahlstein Stub Stumbling-block Stumbling-stone Substance Summer Sump Supple Surbed Swallow-stone Swine-stone Tabby Table Tactics Talisman Tambor Team Temple Term Tesselate Testudo Threshhold Throw Thunder-stone Tiffany Toad-stone Tod Tombstone Top-sail Topaz Tophi Torment Touch Touchstone Tracery Transversely Trass Travestin Tre Trial Tripoli Trochite Truck Tuf Tumble Tunnel-pit Turm Turmalin Turn Turnstone Typolite Unbreathing Uncertain Unctuous Underneath Underpin Underpinned Underpinning Unite Unpaved Unpelted Unpetrified Unturned Use Value Variegate Variolite Vein Vermil Volcano Volvic Vomit Wall Warming-stone Water Water-sapphire Weapon Well Wharf Whetstone Which Whin-stone Wood-stone Wrench Write Writing Zapote Zeolite Zoolite
Abbreuvoir Absurd Abutment Accumulate Aciniform Actinolite Adamant Adamantine Adept Aerolite Agalmatolite Agate Aggregate Alabaster Altar Amethyst Ammochryse Amphibiolite Amphicome Amphitheater Amulet Anchovy-pear Animal-flower Anthropolite Apophthegm Apophyllite Apparatus Appian Aqueduct Arbalist Arch Arches-court Archil Arcubalist Arenilitic Armed Armenian Aromatite Aroph Arundelian Ashes Astacite Asterite Astrite Astroit Attraction Badiane Balass Ballast Ballistic Barolite Barrow Basalt Basanite Bastion Batrachite Bawn Beard Bed Bedetter Belemnite Betray Bezel Bezoar Bibliolite Bice Bilestone Blackness Bloodstone Boll Bossage Botryolite Bought Boundary Bounding-stone Bowlder Bowlder-wall Breastplate Breccia Bridge Brittle Brocatel Buckler Burrel-shot Butment Button-stone Byssolite Cairn Calcarious Calcedon Calculous Camaieu Camayeu Cameo Cannon-ball Carat Carboncle Carnelian Carve Carving Caseshot Cast Catapelt Catapult Catheter Causey Char-woman Charact Charge Chatoyant Cherry-pit Cheslip Chimney Chimney-piece Chip Choke Chronicle Cinnamon Circle Clean Cloud Cobble Coin Cold Collet Column Commandment Commissure Compact Composition Conductor Conduit Conge Consent Copper Copple-stones Coral Cordon Corner-stone Course Cramp Cranny Crayon Cromlech Crumble Cryolite Cucurbit Curb-stone Cut Cutting Dash Daze Decalogue Dendrite Dendrolite Diadem Diameter Diamond Dibstone Die Dig Dike Dilapidate Diligence Diminutive Disallow Disclose Discus Disgorge Disk Disorderly Dispatch Doggers Doublet Drag Drops Drupe Duck Edelite Emerald Emery Employ Encrinite Enforce Engrave Engraver Engraving Enterprise Entomolite Environing Ephod Epistyle Eurite Eyestone Factitious Fairystone Falling-stone Feel Feign Fence Ferrilite Fetichism Figurate Filter Filtration Find Firmness Fissile Fit Flaccidness Flagged Flagging Flagstone Fling Flint Flinty Foil Font Form Fother Fougade Foundation Freestone Friability Garland Gather Gem Generalize Ginging Girdle Give Globule Glyptic Glyptographic Glyptograpny Goats-stones Gorgon Gouge Grain Granit Granular Grapestone Grave Grave-stone Gravel Graver Graving Grind Grindstone Grit Grittiness Gross Gunstone Gypsey Hair-breadth Headstone Heap Hearth Heave Heavy Herborized Hew Hewer High-operation Hippolith Hone Hornslate Hornstone House Hurdle Hurl Hydrolite Ichthyolite Idol If Ignescent Image Impose Imposing-stone Impost Inanimate Incrustation Indicolite Infernal Infiltration Inkhorn Inkstand Inlapidate Inoculate Inscribe Intaglio Interstice Iolite Jade Jamb Jerk Jewel Karpholite Keffekil Kern Key Keystone Killas Kiln Konilite Koupholite Labor Landmark Lapicide Lapidarious Lapidary Lapidate Lapideous Lapidescence Lapidescent Lapidific Lapidification Lapidify Lapidist Lapis Law Lay League Ledge Leelite Ligure Lime Lime-burner Limekiln Limestone Lithanthrax Lithiate Lithic Lithocarp Lithocolla Lithodendron Lithogenesy Lithoglyphite Lithography Lithologic Lithologist Lithology Lithomancy Lithomarga Lithontriptic Lithontriptor Lithophosphor Lithophyl Lithophyte Lithotome Lithotomist Lithotomy Lithotritor Lithotrity Lithoxyle Lively Liverstone Loadstar Lode-stone Lumachel Lydian Macigno Mandlestone Mangonel Mantle-tree Marble Margode Mason Matter Mellite Mellitic Mesoleucys Mesomelas Meteor Meteoric Meterolite Mica Milestone Millstone Mine Mirror-stone Missile Molder Mole Montoir Monument Mortar Mosaic Mosk Mound Mount Muller Muriacite Mushroom-stone Myrrhine Nature Necklace Nemolite Nephritic Nephritical Nephrotomy Newel Obey Observable Oculist Offense Olivin On Oolite Opal Ophite Ostracite Ouch Oven Palmated Parchment Parget Parsley Partition Paste Pave Paved Pavement Paver Paving Pearl-stone Pebblestone Pebbly Pederero Pelt Pendant Penetrable Percolate Percolation Permeate Perpender Pervious Petrean Petrescence Petrescent Petrifaction Petrifactive Petrific Petrified Petrify Petrifying Petrol Petrosilex Petrous Philosopher Phonolite Phospholite Phrygian Phyllite Physalite Phytolite Pier Pikrolite Pile Pimelite Pisolite Plainly Platform Plum Ply Polyautography Polygenous Polymnite Pore Porpite Precious Prevail Probe Proud Purl Push Putting-stone Puzzolan Pyrolithic Pyroxene Quadrel Quarry Quarrying Quarryman Quern Quicklime Quoin Quoit Rack Ragg Ragstone Raise Rammer Ratchil Refuse Result Retinite Rigid Road Rock-salt Roll Roller Rosicrucian Rotten-stone Rough Rub Rubble-stone Ruby Rude Ruderation Run Runner Rustic Sack Saltpeter Sand Sandstone Sarcolite Sarcophagus Sarde Sardonyx Sarplar Sassafras Saw Saxifrage Saxifragous Scapolite Scratch Scribe Scrip Sculptor Sculpture Sea-carp Seal Seam Semi-lapidified Semi-protolite Sepulchral Serpent Serprntine Set Setting Shingle Shivery Shoad Should Shower Silcia Silex Sill Sink Slab Slate Slay Sled Sleekstone Slime Sling Smite Soft Sound Sounding Spar Sprig-crystal Stair Stallion Stan Stane Stannel Stanyel Star-apple Staurolite Staurotide Stean Steatite Steen Stellite Step-stone Stepping-stone Stock Stone Stone-blind Stone-bow Stone-crop Stone-dead Stone-horse Stone-house Stone-pit Stone-squarer Stone-still Stone-wall Stone-work Stonecutter Stonecutting Stoned Stoner Stones-cast Stones-throw Stoniness Stony Strahlstein Stub Stumbling-block Stumbling-stone Substance Summer Sump Supple Surbed Swallow-stone Swine-stone Tabby Table Tactics Talisman Tambor Team Temple Term Tesselate Testudo Threshhold Throw Thunder-stone Tiffany Toad-stone Tod Tombstone Top-sail Topaz Tophi Torment Touch Touchstone Tracery Transversely Trass Travestin Tre Trial Tripoli Trochite Truck Tuf Tumble Tunnel-pit Turm Turmalin Turn Turnstone Typolite Unbreathing Uncertain Unctuous Underneath Underpin Underpinned Underpinning Unite Unpaved Unpelted Unpetrified Unturned Use Value Variegate Variolite Vein Vermil Volcano Volvic Vomit Wall Warming-stone Water Water-sapphire Weapon Well Wharf Whetstone Which Whin-stone Wood-stone Wrench Write Writing Zapote Zeolite Zoolite
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