Stone /(?)/
Stone
n.
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Concreted earthy or mineral matter; also, any particular mass of such matter; as, a house built of stone; the boy threw a stone; pebbles are rounded stones.
They had brick for stone, and slime . . . for mortar.
- A precious stone; a gem.
- Something made of stone. Specifically: -
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The glass of a mirror; a mirror. [Obs.]
Lend me a looking-glass; If that her breath will mist or stain the stone, Why, then she lives.
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A monument to the dead; a gravestone.
Should some relenting eye Glance on the where our cold relics lie.
- A calculous concretion, especially one in the kidneys or bladder; the disease arising from a calculus. (Med.)
- One of the testes; a testicle.
- The hard endocarp of drupes; as, the stone of a cherry or peach. See Illust. of Endocarp. (Bot.)
- A weight which legally is fourteen pounds, but in practice varies with the article weighed. [Eng.]
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Fig.: Symbol of hardness and insensibility; torpidness; insensibility; as, a heart of stone.
I have not yet forgot myself to stone.
- A stand or table with a smooth, flat top of stone, commonly marble, on which to arrange the pages of a book, newspaper, etc., before printing; -- called also imposing stone. (Print.)
Phrases & Compounds
- Atlantic stone
- ivory.
- Bowing stone
- Same as Cromlech.
- Meteoric stones
- stones which fall from the atmosphere, as after the explosion of a meteor.
- Philosopher's stone
- See under Philosopher.
- Rocking stone
- See Rocking-stone.
- Stone age
- a supposed prehistoric age of the world when stone and bone were habitually used as the materials for weapons and tools; -- called also flint age. The bronze age succeeded to this.
- Stone bass
- any one of several species of marine food fishes of the genus Serranus and allied genera, as Serranus Couchii, and Polyprion cernium of Europe; -- called also sea perch.
- Stone biter
- the wolf fish.
- Stone boiling
- a method of boiling water or milk by dropping hot stones into it, -- in use among savages.
- Stone borer
- any animal that bores stones; especially, one of certain bivalve mollusks which burrow in limestone. See Lithodomus, and Saxicava.
- Stone bramble
- a European trailing species of bramble (Rubus saxatilis).
- Stone-break
- Any plant of the genus Saxifraga; saxifrage.
- Stone bruise
- a sore spot on the bottom of the foot, from a bruise by a stone.
- Stone canal
- Same as Sand canal, under Sand.
- Stone cat
- any one of several species of small fresh-water North American catfishes of the genus Noturus. They have sharp pectoral spines with which they inflict painful wounds.
- Stone coal
- hard coal; mineral coal; anthracite coal.
- Stone coral
- any hard calcareous coral.
- Stone crab
- A large crab (Menippe mercenaria) found on the southern coast of the United States and much used as food.
- Stone crawfish
- a European crawfish (Astacus torrentium), by many writers considered only a variety of the common species (Astacus fluviatilis).
- Stone curlew
- A large plover found in Europe (Edicnemus crepitans). It frequents stony places. Called also thick-kneed plover or bustard, and thick-knee.
- Stone crush
- Same as Stone bruise, above.
- Stone eater
- Same as Stone borer, above.
- Stone falcon
- the merlin.
- Stone fern
- a European fern (Asplenium Ceterach) which grows on rocks and walls.
- Stone fly
- any one of many species of pseudoneuropterous insects of the genus Perla and allied genera; a perlid. They are often used by anglers for bait. The larvae are aquatic.
- Stone fruit
- any fruit with a stony endocarp; a drupe, as a peach, plum, or cherry.
- Stone grig
- the mud lamprey, or pride.
- Stone hammer
- a hammer formed with a face at one end, and a thick, blunt edge, parallel with the handle, at the other, -- used for breaking stone.
- Stone hawk
- the merlin; -- so called from its habit of sitting on bare stones.
- Stone jar
- a jar made of stoneware.
- Stone lily
- a fossil crinoid.
- Stone lugger
- See Stone roller, below.
- Stone marten
- a European marten (Mustela foina) allied to the pine marten, but having a white throat; -- called also beech marten.
- Stone mason
- a mason who works or builds in stone.
- Stone-mortar
- a kind of large mortar formerly used in sieges for throwing a mass of small stones short distances.
- Stone oil
- rock oil, petroleum.
- Stone parsley
- an umbelliferous plant (Seseli Labanotis). See under Parsley.
- Stone pine
- A nut pine. See the Note under Pine, and Piñon.
- Stone pit
- a quarry where stones are dug.
- Stone pitch
- hard, inspissated pitch.
- Stone plover
- The European stone curlew
- Stone roller
- An American fresh-water fish (Catostomus nigricans) of the Sucker family. Its color is yellowish olive, often with dark blotches. Called also stone lugger, stone toter, hog sucker, hog mullet.
- Stone's cast
- the distance to which a stone may be thrown by the hand; as, they live a stone's throw from each other.
- Stone snipe
- the greater yellowlegs, or tattler.
- Stone toter
- See Stone roller (a), above
- To leave no stone unturned
- to do everything that can be done; to use all practicable means to effect an object.
Stone
v. t.
imp. & p. p. Stoned; p. pr. & vb. n. Stoning
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To pelt, beat, or kill with stones.
And they stoned Stephen, calling upon God, and saying, Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.
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To make like stone; to harden.
O perjured woman! thou dost stone my heart.
- To free from stones; also, to remove the seeds of; as, to stone a field; to stone cherries; to stone raisins.
- To wall or face with stones; to line or fortify with stones; as, to stone a well; to stone a cellar.
- To rub, scour, or sharpen with a stone.