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Petrify :: Petrify (v. i.) To become stone, or of a stony hardness, as organic matter by calcareous deposits..

Cholesterin :: Cholesterin (n.) A white, fatty, crystalline substance, tasteless and odorless, found in animal and plant products and tissue, and especially in nerve tissue, in the bile, and in gallstones..

Buhrstone :: Buhrstone (n.) A cellular, flinty rock, used for mill stones..

Wheatear :: Wheatear (n.) A small European singing bird (Saxicola /nanthe). The male is white beneath, bluish gray above, with black wings and a black stripe through each eye. The tail is black at the tip and in the middle, but white at the base and on each side. Called also checkbird, chickell, dykehopper, fallow chat, fallow finch, stonechat, and whitetail..

Jackstone :: Jackstone (n.) A game played with five small stones or pieces of metal. See 6th Chuck.

Well :: Well (v. i.) A pit or hole sunk into the earth to such a depth as to reach a supply of water, generally of a cylindrical form, and often walled with stone or bricks to prevent the earth from caving in..

Quoin :: Quoin (n.) to support and steady a stone.

Laterite :: Laterite (n.) An argillaceous sandstone, of a red color, and much seamed; -- found in India..

Flysch :: Flysch (n.) A name given to the series of sandstones and schists overlying the true nummulitic formation in the Alps, and included in the Eocene Tertiary..

Sarcophagus :: Sarcophagus (n.) A species of limestone used among the Greeks for making coffins, which was so called because it consumed within a few weeks the flesh of bodies deposited in it. It is otherwise called lapis Assius, or Assian stone, and is said to have been found at Assos, a city of Lycia..

Stonesmickle :: Stonerunner (n.) The dotterel.

Acinus :: Acinus (n.) A grapestone.

Rub :: Rub (n.) A stone, commonly flat, used to sharpen cutting tools; a whetstone; -- called also rubstone..

Astroite :: Astroite (n.) A radiated stone or fossil; star-stone.

Sardius :: Sardius (n.) A precious stone, probably a carnelian, one of which was set in Aaron's breastplate..

Magnet :: Magnet (n.) The loadstone; a species of iron ore (the ferrosoferric or magnetic ore, Fe3O4) which has the property of attracting iron and some of its ores, and, when freely suspended, of pointing to the poles; -- called also natural magnet..

Noyau :: Noyau (n.) A cordial of brandy, etc., flavored with the kernel of the bitter almond, or of the peach stone, etc..

Ichnite :: Ichnite (n.) A fossil footprint; as, the ichnites in the Triassic sandstone..

Thunderstone :: Thunderstone (n.) A thunderbolt, -- formerly believed to be a stone..

Eozoon :: Eozoon (n.) A peculiar structure found in the Archaean limestones of Canada and other regions. By some geologists it is believed to be a species of gigantic Foraminifera, but others consider it a concretion, without organic structure..

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