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Hail :: Hail (n.) Small roundish masses of ice precipitated from the clouds, where they are formed by the congelation of vapor. The separate masses or grains are called hailstones..

Diabase :: Diabase (n.) A basic, dark-colored, holocrystalline, igneous rock, consisting essentially of a triclinic feldspar and pyroxene with magnetic iron; -- often limited to rocks pretertiary in age. It includes part of what was early called greenstone..

Finish :: Finish (n.) The result of completed labor, as on the surface of an object; manner or style of finishing; as, a rough, dead, or glossy finish given to cloth, stone, metal, etc..

Oolite :: Oolite (n.) A variety of limestone, consisting of small round grains, resembling the roe of a fish. It sometimes constitutes extensive beds, as in the European Jurassic. See the Chart of Geology..

Lithobilic :: Lithobilic (a.) Pertaining to or designating an organic acid of the tartaric acid series, distinct from lithofellic acid, but, like it, obtained from certain bile products, as bezoar stones..

Stonesmickle :: Stonerunner (n.) The dotterel.

Kerbstone :: Kerbstone (n.) See Curbstone.

Underpin :: Underpin (v. t.) To lay stones, masonry, etc., under, as the sills of a building, on which it is to rest..

Friz :: Friz (v. t.) To soften and make of even thickness by rubbing, as with pumice stone or a blunt instrument..

Sand :: Sand (n.) A single particle of such stone.

Grapestone :: Grapestone (n.) A seed of the grape.

Ligure :: Ligure (n.) A kind of precious stone.

Brontozoum :: Brontozoum (n.) An extinct animal of large size, known from its three-toed footprints in Mesozoic sandstone..

Sympathy :: Sympathy (n.) A tendency of inanimate things to unite, or to act on each other; as, the sympathy between the loadstone and iron..

Potsdam Group :: Potsdam group () A subdivision of the Primordial or Cambrian period in American geology; -- so named from the sandstone of Potsdam, New York. See Chart of Geology..

Stereoelectric :: Stereochromy (n.) A style of painting on plastered walls or stone, in which the colors are rendered permanent by sprinklings of water, in which is mixed a proportion of soluble glass (a silicate of soda)..

Mason :: Mason (v. t.) To build stonework or brickwork about, under, in, over, etc.; to construct by masons; -- with a prepositional suffix; as, to mason up a well or terrace; to mason in a kettle or boiler..

Burrstone :: Burrstone (n.) See Buhrstone.

Jerk :: "Jerk (v. t.) To throw with a quick and suddenly arrested motion of the hand; as, to jerk a stone..

Ammonite :: Ammonite (n.) A fossil cephalopod shell related to the nautilus. There are many genera and species, and all are extinct, the typical forms having existed only in the Mesozoic age, when they were exceedingly numerous. They differ from the nautili in having the margins of the septa very much lobed or plaited, and the siphuncle dorsal. Also called serpent stone, snake stone, and cornu Ammonis..

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