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Mole :: Mole (n.) A mound or massive work formed of masonry or large stones, etc., laid in the sea, often extended either in a right line or an arc of a circle before a port which it serves to defend from the violence of the waves, thus protecting ships in a harbor; also, sometimes, the harbor itself..

Niagara Period :: Niagara period () A subdivision or the American Upper Silurian system, embracing the Medina, Clinton, and Niagara epoch. The rocks of the Niagara epoch, mostly limestones, are extensively distributed, and at Niagara Falls consist of about eighty feet of shale supporting a greater thickness of limestone, which is gradually undermined by the removal of the shale. See Chart of Geology..

Pumice Stone :: Pumice stone () Same as Pumice.

Granolithic :: Granolithic (n.) A kind of hard artificial stone, used for pavements..

Purbeck Beds :: Purbeck beds () The strata of the Purbeck stone, or Purbeck limestone, belonging to the Oolitic group. See the Chart of Geology..

Jew''s-stone :: Jew's-stone (n.) Alt. of Jewston.

Stone :: Stone (n.) A monument to the dead; a gravestone.

Alum Stone :: Alum stone () A subsulphate of alumina and potash; alunite.

Logan :: Logan (n.) A rocking or balanced stone.

Purbeck Stone :: Purbeck stone () A limestone from the Isle of Purbeck in England.

Gladstone :: Gladstone (n.) A four-wheeled pleasure carriage with two inside seats, calash top, and seats for driver and footman..

Stone-blind :: Stonebird (n.) The yellowlegs; -- called also stone snipe. See Tattler, 2..

Bonder :: Bonder (n.) A bonding stone or brick; a bondstone.

Gunstome :: Gunstome (n.) A cannon ball; -- so called because originally made of stone.

Potstone :: Potstone (n.) A variety of steatite sometimes manufactured into culinary vessels.

Nephrite :: Nephrite (n.) A hard compact mineral, of a dark green color, formerly worn as a remedy for diseases of the kidneys, whence its name; kidney stone; a kind of jade. See Jade..

Arenilitic :: Arenilitic (a.) Of or pertaining to sandstone; as, arenilitic mountains..

Firestone :: Firestone (n.) Iron pyrites, formerly used for striking fire; also, a flint..

Medusa :: Medusa (n.) The Gorgon; or one of the Gorgons whose hair was changed into serpents, after which all who looked upon her were turned into stone..

Drupe :: Drupe (n.) A fruit consisting of pulpy, coriaceous, or fibrous exocarp, without valves, containing a nut or stone with a kernel. The exocarp is succulent in the plum, cherry, apricot, peach, etc.; dry and subcoriaceous in the almond; and fibrous in the cocoanut..

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