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Quoin :: Quoin (n.) A wedgelike piece of stone, wood metal, or other material, used for various purposes.

Fabrile :: Fabrile (a.) Pertaining to a workman, or to work in stone, metal, wood etc.; as, fabrile skill..

Ashler :: Ashler (n.) In the United States especially, a thin facing of squared and dressed stone upon a wall of rubble or brick..

Stonechat :: Stonechat (n.) The wheatear.

Grayling :: Grayling (a.) An American fish of the genus Thymallus, having similar habits to the above; one species (T. Ontariensis), inhabits several streams in Michigan; another (T. montanus), is found in the Yellowstone region..

Orpine :: Orpine (n.) A low plant with fleshy leaves (Sedum telephium), having clusters of purple flowers. It is found on dry, sandy places, and on old walls, in England, and has become naturalized in America. Called also stonecrop, and live-forever..

Honeystone :: Honeystone (n.) See Mellite.

Lapidescent :: Lapidescent (a.) Undergoing the process of becoming stone; having the capacity of being converted into stone; having the quality of petrifying bodies.

Tenant :: Tenant (n.) One who holds or possesses lands, or other real estate, by any kind of right, whether in fee simple, in common, in severalty, for life, for years, or at will; also, one who has the occupation or temporary possession of lands or tenements the title of which is in another; -- correlative to landlord. See Citation from Blackstone, under Tenement, 2..

Gorgonize :: Gorgonize (v. t.) To have the effect of a Gorgon upon; to turn into stone; to petrify.

Stereotype :: Stereotomy (n.) The science or art of cutting solids into certain figures or sections, as arches, and the like; especially, the art of stonecutting..

Kingstone :: Kingstone (n.) The black angel fish. See Angel fish, under Angel..

Lithophagous :: Lithophagous (a.) Eating or swallowing stones or gravel, as the ostrich..

Klinkstone :: Klinkstone (n.) See Clinkstone.

Tartar :: Tartar (n.) A reddish crust or sediment in wine casks, consisting essentially of crude cream of tartar, and used in marking pure cream of tartar, tartaric acid, potassium carbonate, black flux, etc., and, in dyeing, as a mordant for woolen goods; -- called also argol, wine stone, etc..

Coggle :: Coggle (n.) A cobblestone.

Moraine :: Moraine (n.) An accumulation of earth and stones carried forward and deposited by a glacier.

Farcilite :: Farcilite (n.) Pudding stone.

Coussinet :: Coussinet (n.) A stone placed on the impost of a pier for receiving the first stone of an arch.

Boaster :: Boaster (n.) A stone mason's broad-faced chisel.

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