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Ragwork :: Ragwork (n.) A kind of rubblework. In the United States, any rubblework of thin and small stones..

Ledger :: Ledger (n.) A large flat stone, esp. one laid over a tomb..

Rebate :: Rebate (n.) A kind of hard freestone used in making pavements.

Draff :: Draff (n.) A narrow border left on a finished stone, worked differently from the rest of its face..

Monolith :: Monolith (n.) A single stone, especially one of large size, shaped into a pillar, statue, or monument..

Dinosauria :: Dinosauria (n. pl.) An order of extinct mesozoic reptiles, mostly of large size (whence the name). Notwithstanding their size, they present birdlike characters in the skeleton, esp. in the pelvis and hind limbs. Some walked on their three-toed hind feet, thus producing the large bird tracks, so-called, of mesozoic sandstones; others were five-toed and quadrupedal. See Illust. of Compsognathus, also Illustration of Dinosaur in Appendix..

Monopyrenous :: Monopyrenous (a.) Having but a single stone or kernel.

Gyrogonite :: Gyrogonite (n.) The petrified fruit of the Chara hispida, a species of stonewort. See Stonewort..

Chondrule :: Chondrule (n.) A peculiar rounded granule of some mineral, usually enstatite or chrysolite, found imbedded more or less abundantly in the mass of many meteoric stones, which are hence called chondrites..

Pitch :: Pitch (n.) See Pitchstone.

Archaeolithic :: Archaeolithic (a.) Of or pertaining to the earliest Stone age; -- applied to a prehistoric period preceding the Paleolithic age.

Stonesmickle :: Stonerunner (n.) The dotterel.

Cross-stone :: Cross-stone (n.) See Harmotome, and Staurotide..

Altar :: Altar (n.) In the Christian church, a construction of stone, wood, or other material for the celebration of the Holy Eucharist; the communion table..

Yellowlegs :: Yellowlegs (n.) Any one of several species of long-legged sandpipers of the genus Totanus, in which the legs are bright yellow; -- called also stone snipe, tattler, telltale, yellowshanks; and yellowshins. See Tattler, 2..

Slip :: Slip (n.) Matter found in troughs of grindstones after the grinding of edge tools.

Milestone :: Milestone (n.) A stone serving the same purpose as a milepost.

Macadamize :: Macadamize (v. t.) To cover, as a road, or street, with small, broken stones, so as to form a smooth, hard, convex surface..

Ballast :: Ballast (a.) The larger solids, as broken stone or gravel, used in making concrete..

Bufonite :: Bufonite (n.) An old name for a fossil consisting of the petrified teeth and palatal bones of fishes belonging to the family of Pycnodonts (thick teeth), whose remains occur in the oolite and chalk formations; toadstone; -- so named from a notion that it was originally formed in the head of a toad..

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