Definition of stone

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Stone (n.) A weight which legally is fourteen pounds, but in practice varies with the article weighed..

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Lay :: Lay (v. t.) To place and arrange (pages) for a form upon the imposing stone.
Photolithograph :: Photolithograph (n.) A lithographic picture or copy from a stone prepared by the aid of photography.
Meteoric :: Meteoric (a.) Of or pertaining to a meteor, or to meteors; atmospheric, as, meteoric phenomena; meteoric stones..
Stonecrop :: Stonecray (n.) A distemper in hawks.
Lay :: Lay (n.) That which lies or is laid or is conceived of as having been laid or placed in its position; a row; a stratum; a layer; as, a lay of stone or wood..
Gtraystone :: Gtraystone (n.) A grayish or greenish compact rock, composed of feldspar and augite, and allied to basalt..
Lithotriptist :: Lithotriptist (n.) One skilled in breaking and extracting stone in the bladder.
Quoin :: Quoin (n.) to support and steady a stone.
Brimstone :: Brimstone (v. t.) Sulphur; See Sulphur.
Banker :: Banker (n.) The stone bench on which masons cut or square their work.
Sand :: Sand (n.) Fine particles of stone, esp. of siliceous stone, but not reduced to dust; comminuted stone in the form of loose grains, which are not coherent when wet..
Ratchel :: Ratchel (n.) Gravelly stone.
Husk :: Husk (n.) The supporting frame of a run of millstones.
Scrubstone :: Scrubstone (n.) A species of calciferous sandstone.
Moonstone :: Moonstone (n.) A nearly pellucid variety of feldspar, showing pearly or opaline reflections from within. It is used as a gem. The best specimens come from Ceylon..
Sculpture :: Sculpture (v. t.) To form with the chisel on, in, or from, wood, stone, or metal; to carve; to engrave..
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..
Shadd :: Shadd (n.) Rounded stones containing tin ore, lying at the surface of the ground, and indicating a vein..
Bloodstone :: Bloodstone (n.) A green siliceous stone sprinkled with red jasper, as if with blood; hence the name; -- called also heliotrope..
Petrify :: Petrify (v. i.) To become stone, or of a stony hardness, as organic matter by calcareous deposits..
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